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"You wrong them there. They hold that you are wanting in loyalty to our father's memory in espousing the cause of men who were his enemies men who strove to ruin his political life. It is in being a soldier of the Union that they look upon you as recreant to the traditions of your family and your party." "Well, I shall make a hard struggle for escape.

"Master Arundel," he replied, walking back, "I do prize thy friendship more than precious jewels; but I were untrue to that love, should I expose thee to danger. For myself, I were a recreant, and no knight, could I, because of danger, refuse to obey a call to benefit my fellow-men; but, for thee, it is a reckless and unneeded temptation of peril.

"My lord," she said, still as if her voice belonged to some one else. "Slain? And thou, recreant, here to tell the tale!" "Madam, he fell before I had time to strike." She seemed to hear no word, but again demanded, "My son." He hesitated a moment, but she fiercely reiterated. "My son! Speak out, thou coward loon." "Madam, Robert was cut down by the Lord Clifford beside the Earl of Rutland.

It may be, of course, that my personal charm was so irresistible that every official from the warden down fell victim to it, and would rather prove recreant to their oath of office than interfere with me; my vanity craves to believe so, yet I hesitate.

I would as soon, were I a man, forsake their banner when the tide of battle pressed hardest against it, and turn, like a hireling recreant, to join the victorious enemy." "I honour your spirit, Miss Vernon; and as to the inconveniences to which it exposes you, I can only say, that wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow."

They accepted this gratefully, Mark only proposing that she should go either to his stepmother or her own relations to avoid the final crisis. 'As if I would! she exclaimed. 'What sort of a little recreant goose do you take me for? 'I take you for a gallant little woman, ready to stand in the breach, said Mark. 'Ah, don't flatter yourself!

Even when instigated by his tempters, the unhappy Doctor Augustine Cazalla urged him to be reconciled to the Church of Rome, he turned on him a look of sorrow and compassion, mingled with contempt, which at once silenced the recreant from the truth. Herezuelo's calmness seemed to excite the rage and all the evil passions of the priests and soldiers.

One day he disappeared from his lonely cabin and no one knew whither he had gone. Treason had purchased prosperity for the recreant son. Wealth and honors were his and an English wife, a haughty woman of half-noble family, who completed the work of alienation.

I will pray that all his love may be given to you; morning and night I will pray on my knees. Oh, believe, believe!" The Indian girl could not doubt her sincerity. But with the injustice of a passionate, jealous love she did not so much blame her recreant lover. Some charm, some art, must have been used, perhaps by a third person, and the girl be guiltless.

I will follow the Saviour's example, and never, while I live, prove recreant to the love which I vowed to the dear Tyrol; never will I leave it, but I will stand by it and serve it to the last. "It is," said Hofer, gently. "But pray, sir, do not be angry with me for it.

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