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And then, in a voice which pierced the traitor's bosom as with a sword, she continued, "Honoré, my husband! Forgive me! Forgive me that I distrusted you! That I disowned you!"
"Fly rather to the faithful Indians," whispered Nigel; "do not put yourself in the traitor's power." He could say no more, for the armed men seizing him took him off, while the priest held Constance in his arms.
He called to those who waited without, wrote an order and sent it to the officer in command at the battery. "Up goes one traitor's signal!... Good Pedro, when Fate gives to you your enemy; says, 'Now! Revenge yourself to the uttermost! what do you do?" "Why, I take his life," answered Mexia. "Then shall he trouble me no more." "Now I," said Don Luiz, "I give him memories of me.
I can't have his name coupled with a murderer's with a traitor's." "Ah, my friend, when hate draws your portrait it is bound to be black. When prejudice holds the pen, your virtues stand in the shade of vice.
The new biography of Benedict Arnold tells us of the despair of the traitor's final days, the remorse that gnawed his heart, the agony that filled his life. Yet no arbitrary degree was imposed upon Arnold. He plotted the surrender of the interests committed to him as a general, planned the stratagem that ended in the capture and execution of Andre, and received $30,000 in gold for his treachery.
The men who had restrained her from covering herself with disgrace by a precipitate retreat from the post of danger, and who had imperilled their lives by obedience to her express instructions, had been long languishing in solitary confinement, never to be terminated except by a traitor's death yet we search in vain for a kind word in their behalf.
While hunting together in the woods near Traitor's Trap one day Charlie Brooke and Hunky Ben came to a halt on the summit of an eminence that commanded a wide view over the surrounding country. "'Tis a glorious place, Ben," said Brooke, leaning his rifle against a tree and mounting on a piece of rock, the better to take in the beautiful prospect of woodland, river, and lake.
"Never fear, Donald; a traitor's death was never meant for an old soldier of the King, like you." The young officer entered his boat and immediately bent to the oars. The old servant walked up the hill leading to Levis, and was soon lost in the darkness. Roderick reached the north shore in safety.
He could see that the boy was not his usual self, but he did not guess the cause of his changed manner. With his usual prying way he began: "Thou hast been here now a fortnight and more. Perchance her ladyship will be rid of thee. Was't of that she spake to thee?" And now Hugo had sufficiently conquered himself so that he dared to lift his eyes. Innocently he looked into the traitor's face.
Old London Bridge was soon passed, and old Billingsgate Market with its oyster-boats and Dutchmen, and the White Tower and Traitor's Gate, and we were in among the tiers of shipping.
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