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Yet he was himself a very stern respecter of the hedgerows; sought safety and found dignity in the obvious path of conduct; and would palter with no simple and recognised duty of his epoch. Of marriage in particular, of the bond so formed, of the obligations incurred, of the debt men owe to their children, he conceived in a truly antique spirit; not to blame others, but to constrain himself.
He, too, if he had his wish, would some day rest here; and here his own son would stand, and read his name, and think of him. Ah, but with no such remorse and self-contempt! That was inconceivable. The tenderness which dimmed his eyes would have changed to misery had he dreamed it possible that his own boy could palter so ignobly with the opportunities of life.
It is not a mere prayer of help to tell the truth, but like the kindred Hebrew words, "So do God to me and more also!" it is an invocation of His vengeance and an abjuration of all His further favor if we palter with the truth. It means, "If I speak not truly and mean not sincerely, so do I forswear and renounce henceforth all help from God. I hope not His help in the cares of life.
'He hath said, and shall He not do it? 'He will not alter the thing that is gone out of His lips. It is only a God who has actually spoken to men who can be a 'faithful God. He will not palter with a double sense, 'keeping His word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope. But not only His articulate promises, but also His own past actions, bind Him.
The world is full of these vulgar souls that palter with eternal Nature and the eternal Arts, blind to the Word who dwells among us therein. Tom, or the daemon in Tom, was not one of them.
'I hold it manifested, Lascelles said, 'that this lady is such an one as will listen to no reason nor policy, neither will she palter, for whatever device, with them that have not lifelong paid lip-service to the arch-devil whose seat is in Rome. Cromwell nodded his head once more to commend the Archbishop's gentleman with a perfect acquiescence.
I have found no time to palter with the fripperies of women." "Ah, but these colonists here are crude and unfascinating. Wait till you see the ladies of the court, my ascetic." "It comes to my mind," I said dryly, "that I lived in Atlantis before I came out here, and at that time I used to see as much of court life as most men. Yet then, also, I felt no inducement to marry." Tatho chuckled.
Add not more to that final account which you as well as I must one day render before God. 'Palter such trash to coward fools! I want none of your priestcraft, returned the nobleman. 'Do I not know the reason of all this affected love for justice and mercy. Your grand-daughter was to have married this midnight robber they were betrothed, or some such trash.
That was what he meant when he gave her the last kiss. He had said so. He had called it the last kiss. But she poor lamb thought it was the last kiss till next time; that it was good-by for three weeks, not good-by forever. He must never see her again. There could be no two ways about that decision. He mustn't palter, or trifle, or shilly-shally about that iron certainty.
Thus saith the King's majesty, who sendeth greeting to your royal highness, and prayeth that God will of His mercy quickly heal you and have you now and ever in His holy keeping." The Lord St. John made reverence and stood aside. Tom replied resignedly "The King hath said it. None may palter with the King's command, or fit it to his ease, where it doth chafe, with deft evasions.
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