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One so good, so lovely, so fitted in every way to form the centre of another home circle as Fanny Elder, could hardly remain unwooed or unwon. Happily, in leaving the paternal haven, her life-boat was launched on no uncertain sea. The character of her husband was based on those sound, religious principles, which regard justice to man as the expression of love to God.
I know well that there will be no lack of brave men ready and willing to fight at my side. Gaston de Brocas has claimed already to be one, and his brother ever strives to be at his side. But he has yet his spurs to win, and I may but take with me those who are knights already." "Raymond de Brocas's spurs unwon!" cried the Prince, with kindling eye, "and he the truest knight amongst us!
A red spear is brighter than the red gold, yes, and it is more honest." "The wealth is unwon, Otter, and I have sworn to win the wealth or die. But last night I swore it again to him who lies dead." "It is well, Baas; an oath is an oath and true men must keep it.
"Ay!" said Brandon, utterly unwon by, and even unheeding, the caress, "our way of life soon passes into the sear and yellow leaf; and when Macbeth grieved that he might not look to have that which should accompany old age, he had grown doting, and grieved for what was worthless." "Nay, uncle, 'honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, these surely were worth the sighing for?"
For thus it sang: "Be thou silent, my Mother of Sin, for this watch it is given me to keep O'er the sleep of the dealer of Death!" Then the Snake sang: "Hush, hush, thou art young, and thou camest to birth when the making was done Of the world: I am older therein!" And the Bow answered: "But without me thy strength were as weakness, the prize of thy strength were unwon.
He smiled, and there was a silence for a minute, as they wandered downward through a purple stretch of heather to a little stream, sun-smitten, that lay across their path. Once or twice she looked at him timidly, afraid lest she might have wounded him. But at last he said: "Shall I answer you in the words of a beloved poet? "'What though there still need effort, strife? Though much be still unwon?
Many another lover since then had Grace many a mathematical schoolmaster, to whom Euclid was no longer a mystery, became, for her sake, puzzled in the problem of love, and earnestly besought her to solve the question he gave, with the simple statement of yes. But still her heart was adamant, and still she was unwon, and sighed more deeply for her island home.
He thinks that he is shouting, his strong young voice topping a hundred other voices. It seems to him who, for the bribe of all the beauty he has coveted, and all the love that is yet unwon, could not speak one audible word or move a finger, that he waves his hat again and again.
He must look for the very slightest change of mood in his people, for so his long-hoped-for chance may come. With all he may do; after every plea he may still find that the victory is unwon. He has gained the intellect it may be or moved the heart; but the stubborn will still holds out against him.
Hope exorcises the gaunt spectre of defeat, and fancy fingers unwon trophies and fadeless bays; but slow-stepping experience, pallid, blood-stained, spent with toil, lays her icy hand on the rosy veil that floats before bright, brave, young eyes, and lo' the hideous wreck, the bleaching bones, the grinning, ghastly horrors that strew the scene of combat!
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