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"But what I fear the most," resumed the Earl, "is, not the enemy without, but the jealousy within. By the side of Harold stands Tostig, rapacious to grasp, but impotent to hold able to ruin, strengthless to save." "Nay, Godwin, my lord, thou wrongest our handsome son."
I pass hence in happiness if thou dost shed a tear thou wrongest my memory, there is naught to weep for. Valdemar will give me the crimson shroud and ocean grave of my ancestors but question him not concerning this fiery pomp of my last voyage he is but a serf, and his soul is shaken to its very depths by sorrow. Let him be he will have his reward hereafter.
In this other scene it was Lady Castledean who was determinant, who kindled the light, or at all events the heat, and who acted on the nerves; Lady Castledean whom she knew she, so oddly, didn't like, in spite of reasons upon reasons, the biggest diamonds on the yellowest hair, the longest lashes on the prettiest, falsest eyes, the oldest lace on the most violet velvet, the rightest manner on the wrongest assumption.
It's the top haul o' the season." He exploded with noiseless chuckles. "Then I was right?" said Harvey, who thought he had found a sympathiser. "You was wrong; the wrongest kind o' wrong! You take right hold an' pitch in 'longside o' me, or you'll catch it, an' I'll catch it fer backin' you up. Dad always gives me double helps 'cause I'm his son, an' he hates favourin' folk.
Thou wrongest me, Ione; but I will bear the wrong without a murmur, only let me see thee sometimes. Chide, reproach, scorn me, if thou wilt I will teach myself to bear it. And is not even thy bitterest tone sweeter to me than the music of the most artful lute?
"Thou wrongest me, Warwick," said the king, carelessly; "Dame Cook was awry, Dame Philips a grandmother, Dame Jocelyn had lost her front teeth, and Dame Waer saw seven ways at once! But thou forgettest, man, the occasion of those honours, the eve before Elizabeth was crowned, and it was policy to make the city of London have a share in her honours.
"Thou wrongest me, Robin," said the Knight, "for listen: I have a son but twenty winters old, nevertheless he has won his spurs as knight. Last year, on a certain evil day, the jousts were held at Chester, and thither my son went, as did I and my lady wife. I wot it was a proud time for us, for he unhorsed each knight that he tilted against.
"Thou wrongest me," said Rienzi, warmly, to Adrian, as they sat alone, towards the close of a long conference; "I do not play the part of a mere demagogue; I wish not to stir the great deeps in order that my lees of fortune may rise to the surface. So long have I brooded over the past, that it seems to me as if I had become a part of it as if I had no separate existence.
I did know a man, though, who saved another man's life when he didn't want to, when there was every excuse for him not to, when he had it all reasoned out that it was wrong, the very wrongest possible thing to do; and he saved him because he couldn't help it, saved him at the risk of his own life, too." "He did!" murmured Hill incredulously. "Go on!" I urged.
Then, seeing that he had hit the wrongest possible nail on the head, he said that he would make the lad a clerk in his office, where he would be sure to rise to a place of trust; whereat Mrs Grumbit danced, if we may so speak, into herself for joy. "And now, ma'am, about these stockings. I want two thousand pairs as soon as I can get them!" "Sir?" said Mrs Grumbit.
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