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Updated: May 12, 2025
Crassus observed that neither himself nor Surena was acting wrong in coming to the conference according to the fashion of their respective countries; on which Surena said that from that moment there was a truce and peace between king Hyrodes and the Romans; but that it was requisite to advance to the river, and there have the agreement put in writing; "for you Romans," he said, "have not a very good memory about contracts;" and he held out his right hand to Crassus.
The order was scarcely given when a man one of those I had left on guard at the door of the courtyard came to tell me that Fresnoy desired to speak with me on behalf of M. de Bruhl. 'Where is he? I asked. 'At the inner door with a flag of truce, was the answer. 'Tell him, then, I said, without offering to move, 'that I will communicate with no one except his leader, M. de Bruhl.
The infantry also were carefully drilled. Besides this, Henry built a number of forts in different parts of his kingdom and had all the fortified cities made stronger. The following year the Magyar chief appeared at the German court and demanded a tenth payment. "Not a piece of gold will be given you," replied King Henry. "Our truce is ended."
Murray's uncontrollable distress, softened her heart toward him; she selected the finest white camellia in the basket, walked close to the horse, and, tendering the flower, said: "Good-bye, sir. I hope you will enjoy your travels." "And prolong them indefinitely? Ah, you offer a flag of truce? I warned you I should not respect it.
"She is standing in," they cried, "and, by the Prophet, she seemeth not a ship of the true believers." She was not, but she bore a flag of truce. Pitching and rearing, the little bark bounded in, and soon was fast in harbour. Ere long messengers of peace had landed, bearing presents and a letter from the Bishop of Amalfi to the Emir of Biserta.
There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce. There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak.
When the sunshine prevailed, filmy white clouds flags of truce floated lazily from peak to peak, and draped themselves about the rugged rocks. It was an ever-changing panorama of beauty and mystery, gazing on which the eye never wearied. "Bragg's somewhere behind them mountains, Shorty," said Si, as the two lay on the ground, smoked, and looked with charmed eyes on the sky line.
He was the first to break the truce, which some months afterwards he renewed, though not without great difficulty. All confidence in his sincerity was lost; his whole conduct was regarded as a tissue of deceit and low cunning, devised to weaken the allies and repair his own strength.
"If by weakness and want of means," he said, "you are forced to abandon to your enemies one portion of your country in order to defend the other-as Lambert tells me you are resolved to do, rather than agree to the truce without recognition of your sovereignty for ever I pray you to consider how many accidents and reproaches may befal you.
Be that as it may, when once the exasperated parents had discovered that they both really wanted the same thing, namely, to recover possession of their respective offspring, to go home, and never meet each other again, a species of truce was soon agreed upon between them for the purpose of separating the two lovers, who all this time were locked in each other's arms, in the prettiest attitude in the world, vowing loudly that nothing should ever part them.
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