reward that they would win from him if they carried his
His shield no more, lest his sinister hand,
Idle, give life by shame; and on his breast
Bearing a forest of spears, though spent with toil
And worn with onset, falls upon his foe
And braves alone the wounds of all the war.
Thus may an elephant in Afric wastes,
Oppressed by frequent darts, break those that fall
Rebounding from his horny hide, and shake
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- end of the apartment. A steady stream of dirty water was
- a score of marvellous tales which the credulous old woman
- London, not revenge upon her husband’s enemies, but reconcilement
- horrid deed which has passed, Castlewood must never be
- fit, often wandering along in the great flower garden that
- against the schemes, the generalship, the wisdom, and the
- “‘I shall break the young man’s heart, madam, by
- desertion and injury, to influence her son in any steps
- event in this quiet retired corner of the world; and nearly
- She had suffered him in old days, and was kind to him now
- not bear to see him. I wish him well, sir; but I wish him
- other fine ladies of that time — witness her Grace of
- stars and waiting. He had lain thus and there many nights
- I had come into this cursed title of Castlewood, which
- had given their testimony, under oath, that they did not
- for his fortune. Whilst I live in it, after the horrid
- good old blooms of northern Europe which My Dear had so
- Shall I be their enemy now, and quarrel about a title?
- undaunted resolution. After King James’s death, the Queen
- when (as my Lord Castlewood declared, calling God to witness,
- He divided his small following into two parties, entrusting
- and redder towards sunset, so, in the decline of her years,
- Harry could never have paid his share of that prodigious
- and sign manual given to his supporters in this country.
- and one man even sent us a cask of cider as a present.
- a name, which his singular fortune had denied him. A discontent
- concerned. She believed in the miracles wrought at his
- that the young man subscribed to this, and other articles
- his boys had deserted, for a hunting party from the bungalow
- a profuse sweat breaking out all over him, and was recovered
- in any way contribute to the cure. Of these tales, and
- the University, where parties ran very high, Esmond was
- in which they are here mentioned, expressing their respective
- Harry’s father. Specially, and in the place of honor,
- perfectly. And there was the wife of Mons. Lepervier, dancing-master
- and on refusal of this bribe, a threat was made, on Holt’s
- in finding any place to pitch our tents, for it was spring-tide,
- the most part — continued their intrigues in behalf of
- facings was in waiting when Esmond came out of prison,
- and how fatally they were bent on consummating their own
- she had come to believe, since otherwise he would have
- beside it, he had felt an independency which he had never
- of course, are of the right way of thinking. They say the
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