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After some discourse I did convince them that it was not fit to have it go, and Sir W. Batten first, and then the rest, did willingly cancel all their hands and tear the order, for I told them, Butler being such a rogue as I know him, and we have all signed him to be to the Duke, it will be in his power to publish this to our great reproach, that we should take such a course as this to serve ourselves in wronging the King by putting him into a place he is no wise capable of, and that in an Admiral ship.
It seems to me you come tramping and footsore, and looking more like a disorderly vagabond than a governor." "Hold your tongue, Teresa," said Sancho; "often 'where there are pegs there are no flitches; let's go into the house and there you'll hear strange things. I bring money, and that's the main thing, got by my own industry without wronging anybody."
Captain Bodine is more than your friend in his feelings; he is your lover, and you are so morbid, unfriended, unguided, that you are capable of sacrificing yourself " "Hush! you are wronging a man whom you are unworthy to name. He has never dreamed of such love as you suggest." "I am right. Oh, I have learned too deeply in the school of experience not to know.
Here Harkaway interrupted him with a cry of wonder and astonishment. "What, Tiller, you mean to say you have a stowaway on board the 'Westward Ho?" "Yes, your honour," responded the frightened mariner. "You have done very wrong, Jack Tiller," said Harkaway, "very wrong indeed." "I know I have, though Lord help me if I thought of wronging any man.
‘I should have done so whether I had seen him or not,’ said I; ‘it is enough that you dislike him.’ ‘I knew you would say so; though mamma affirmed you would be quite shocked at my undutiful conduct. You can’t imagine how she lectures me: I am disobedient and ungrateful; I am thwarting her wishes, wronging my brother, and making myself a burden on her hands.
So I tell you that you would never reach an effective peace, unless by perseverance in humility, no longer insulting or offending the ministers and priests of Holy Church. This is the other thing that I was telling you was harmful and bad. For beside the evil I spoke of that comes from wronging God, I tell you that such action is ruin to your peace.
"I don't understand such things," she answered faintly. "What is this?" She took up my wife's death-bed confession. "Read it," I said. She looked frightened. "What will it tell me?" she asked. "It will tell you, Stella, that false appearances once led you into wronging an innocent man."
My nephew has been apprized of my intentions of coming here, and I find is arrived; it would be wronging him and you to condemn him without examination: if there be injury, there shall be redress; and this I may say without boasting, that none have ever taxed the injustice of Sir William Thornhill.
And I feel as if I were wronging the Saviour to speak of His worth and doctrine, when I have neither time nor space duly to set forth their transcendent excellency. But Christ has our devoutest love and gratitude, and our profoundest reverence.
But when I find him wronging them, and intending to wrong them still more, I can but be startled at his grace's asking me for the sinews of this fleet and the sword with which to cut off my own head, as I would be doing if I should give him ships in order that he may carry out the more successfully his purpose especially as no clause existed in the treaty which would oblige the king our lord to order ships and a fleet to be given to the Spaniards who might pass this way with the intention of doing him injury, in order that they might depart hence and continue on their way.
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