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The only proposition which I have to make to you is this I demand that you declare Alva de Toledo a traitor to the King, the executioner of the people, an enemy to the country, unworthy of the government, and hereby deprived of his authority."
"Go to your German friends; but, when all the horrors that you are going to bring upon this country through their help come to pass, remember you have no sister left in Ireland. You've sold yourself, and I have no brother who is a traitor. Good-bye!" The door swung to and she locked it.
I suppose all my readers have heard of Benedict Arnold, the traitor; and of his attempt to betray his country into the hands of the British, during the Revolutionary War. His name is a by-word in the mouth of every lover of liberty in the land. But there are few that know how he came to be such a character. When we come to learn his early history we feel no more surprise.
"'Death, death torture and death! what else befits the sacrilegious traitor? burst from many voices, pressing forward to seize and bear him from the tent; but the king signed them to forbear, and oh, what a smile took the place of his previous scorn! "'And I say neither torture nor death, my friends, he tried.
Here, indeed, was Napoleon's great chance: there was no man fit to succeed him, and he knew it. Scarcely anyone but Bernadotte himself agreed with the Czar as to the fitness of the choice just named. To the allies the Prince Royal of Sweden was suspect for his loiterings, and to Frenchmen he seemed a traitor.
You see, your mother knows the truth knows that I was jailed for killing your father and her divorced husband. Therefore, the only way to do was as I did. I could not go where you were. There should be hid from you the fact that Erris Boyne was a traitor. This is your right, in my mind.
On the contrary, he recommended himself to his gods, and turned away, meaning to wait for a more auspicious season of revenge. But Orlando hailed him with a terrible voice, saying, "O thou traitor! was this the end to which old quarrels were made up?"
What have I done to you, and what would you have me do? W. Not act like a traitor, but like one that was once a Christian, and would have been so still, if you had not been a Dutchman. D. I know not what to do, not I. I wish I were from them; they are a bloody people. W. Prithee, make no difficulty of what thou shouldst do. Canst thou swim?
He has bewitched the Great Elephant and all his people! Shall we kill him?" But quickly shaking off his fears their spokesman laughed, and answered: "So that is what you have brought the white people here for, old traitor to plot against the throne of Lobengula." He wheeled round and stared at Mr.
"It is for me to judge and sentence. I had thought that I, at least, was safe from treachery among those around me. It seems I was wrong, and the traitor shall learn that the kind master can be the severe lord, who holds the life and death of his serfs in his hand." He was silent, and remained two or three minutes in deep thought. "Go to the stable, Alexis.
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