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His smile was a bit sad as he answered, slowly: "The year will be ended in five minutes!" The End of the Year The girls sat upon the green moss and waited. Prince Marvel stood silent beside his horse. The silver armor was as bright as the day he donned it, nor was there a dent in his untarnished shield.
Still more Voices. "Yes, yes. Count on us." The Emperor. "In that case the enemy will be beaten, and we will preserve our glory untarnished." Several Voices. "But what, then, shall we do?" The Emperor. "Be enrolled and fight." A New Voice. "We would do this gladly, but we would like to make certain conditions." The Emperor. "Well, speak out frankly. Let us know; what are these conditions?"
Virginia's lips began to quiver; she was fairly flinching now under the pitiless contrast, fascinated yet shrinking from the splendid young creature before her, resting there aglow in all the vigourous beauty of untainted health. And from the mirror reflected, the clear eyes smiled back at her, seeming to sear her very soul with their untarnished loveliness.
And there are committed to us, further, to guard sedulously, and to keep bright and untarnished and undiminished in weight and worth, the precious treasures of the Christian life of communion with Him.
"Captain de Mouret, you are a soldier, a brave one, as my own eyes have witnessed, reputed a man of untarnished honor. Will you truly answer me one question upon the sacred Blood of Christ?" His earnestness appealed to every better instinct of my nature, so I replied to him: "I will." "Have I your oath?" "You have."
Hardly a month passes by in which we do not hear of some defalcation, some lapse from integrity, by a man who, through many years of business life, had maintained an untarnished reputation. I have half a dozen such cases in my memory now, and I do not know what to make of them.
While in this state, he may possess many seeming virtues, may enjoy an untarnished reputation, may win the love of many friends; but is none the less the hollow image of that which should be the substance of a man.
"I've been unfortunate in financial matters," returned the earl; "but I have left the family name untarnished." "So I believe, Earl. That's what I admire about you. Some men with your debts would be driven to drink or other pastimes of a more or less tarnishing nature, and I admire you for the admirable restraint you have put upon yourself. You owe, I am told, about twenty-seven thousand pounds."
'Never, said Lasar, 'shall it be said that a Bulgarian was wanting to his guest, He seized a hatchet, and Janko was slaughtered as a lamb. Ah, who can describe the supper of the stranger! "Lasar fell into a deep sleep, and at midnight he heard the stranger cry aloud, 'Arise, Lasar, for I am the Lord thy God; the hospitality of Bulgaria is untarnished.
Disdaining to die while consenting to disappear, the great tree, proudly green of head, did not fall headlong, like a giant, in its pride, but subsided silently behind its leafy screen while all the winds were still, and as one who passes away full of years and with untarnished conscience.
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