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The facts, indeed, which I had stated, there could be no doubt of; but I might have viewed them through a prejudiced and angry medium. I might have been not quite logical in my deductions from them I might.... In short, between "perhapses" and "mights" I fell a very deep, real, damnable fall; and consented to emasculate my poems, and become a flunkey and a dastard.
"A deep wild murmur ran through the now crowded tent, and so mingled were the tones of applause and execration, we knew not which the most prevailed. "'And shall there be no vengeance for this dastard deed? at length the deep, full voice of Lord Edward Bruce arose, distinct above the rest.
"More than you dare tell, Sir Jasper Kingsland!" cried a high, ringing voice, as a young woman rushed impetuously into the church and up the aisle. "Coward and liar! False, perjured wretch! You are too white-livered a hound even to tell the truth! What should you know of such a wretch as that, forsooth! Double-dyed traitor and dastard! Look me in the face and tell me you don't know her!"
Great seemed that oath to him, yet at that moment he wished he had made it greater, and made all the kindred, yea and the Bride herself, sure of the meaning of the words of it: and he deemed himself a dastard that he had not done so. Then he looked round him and beheld the winter, and he fell into mere longing that the spring were come and the token from the Mountain.
"The butchering dastard, to dream even of attacking unarmed men: but enough of him; I must tarry yet in the street to hear what success our intercessor has obtained." And as Wolfe passed the house in which the magisterial conclave sat, Mordaunt came out and accosted him. "You have sworn to me that your purpose is peaceable." said Mordaunt. "Unquestionably," answered Wolfe.
I will begin to drink and scatter flowers, and I will endure even to be accounted foolish. What does not wine freely drunken enterprise? It discloses secrets; commands our hopes to be ratified; pushes the dastard on to the fight; removes the pressure from troubled minds; teaches the arts. Whom have not plentiful cups made eloquent?
If I must hang, I would wish it to be in somewhat a better rope than the string of a lady's hussey. 'Are you, too, turning dastard, Maxwell? said Redgauntlet, in a whisper. 'Not I, said Maxwell; 'let us fight for it, and let them win and wear us; but to be betrayed by a brimstone like that'
But one day shall we have her body and soul, and then shall her body have but an evil day of it till she dieth in this world." "Yea, forsooth, if she can die at all," quoth Roger. The franklin looked sourly on him and said: "Good man, thou knowest much of her, meseemeth Whence art thou?" Said Roger speedily: "From Hampton under Scaur; and her rebel I am, and her dastard, and her runaway.
They wasted the one year of Joan. There were jealousies against the Constable de Richemont of Brittany who had come with all his lances to follow the lily flag. If once Charles were king indeed and the English driven out, La Tremouille would cease to be powerful. This dastard sacrificed the Maid in the end, as he was ready to sacrifice France to his own private advantage.
Would not the man who whispered of snow and ice be a renegade, a dastard, a rebel? North Queenslanders do not attempt to belittle the reputation of Canada as a field for the activities of the surplus population of the old country. We are of the same blood and breed, and merely ask for a proper understanding of our own good land.
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