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'Will you swear to me,' said Madame de Renal solemnly, 'never to quarrel with the Governor of the Poorhouse over these letters?''Quarrel or no quarrel, I can take the foundlings away from him; but,' he continued, furiously, 'I want those letters this instant; where are they?''In a drawer in my desk; but you may be certain, I shall not give you the key of it.'

'At length, M. Chelan persuaded me to hand them over to him ...Some of them, written with a little more prudence than the rest, had been sent to you; never once did you answer me.''Never, I swear to you, did I receive any letter from you at the Seminary.'

I believe that if it had ever entered the vicar's head to accuse me of having murdered my servant, there would have been a score of witnesses from both parties, ready to swear that they had seen me commit the crime.'

I am burning to know; I shall be discreet, I swear to you!'This last sentence astonished her as she uttered it.

'I swear to you eternal secrecy,' said Julien; 'I would even add that I will never address a word to you again, were it not that your reputation might be injured by too marked a change.'

I do not like questions.''It was not a question,' replied Julien effusively: 'I swear to you, Sir, I was thinking aloud, I was seeking in my own mind the safest route.''Yes, it seems that your thoughts were far away.

You will rejoice at it, perhaps ...But I swear to his ghost that I shall at once put on mourning, and shall be publicly _Madame veuve Sorel_ [the widow of M. Sorel], I shall send out the usual announcements, you may count on that ...

'Will you come and see me every day during the next two months?''I swear it to you.

You swear, by the love that you bear me, not to attempt your life by any direct means, or indirect means ...Remember,' he added, 'that you are compelled to live for my son, whom Mathilde will abandon to the care of servants as soon as she is Marquise de Croisenois.''I swear,' she replied coldly, 'but I mean to take away with me your appeal written and signed by your hand.

There are endless examples of poor young men who have been saved in such cases by the humanity of a jury, or by that of the King ...''I shall cease to see you, I shall bar the door of my prison against you,' cried Julien, 'and most certainly I shall kill myself in despair, the day after, unless you swear to me that you will take no step that will make us both a public spectacle.

In either case, the poor women will have some slight distraction from their terrible grief.'Julien had made Madame de Renal swear that she would live to look after Mathilde's child.

"Not everyone thinks the same way as you do," said K."I've been indicted as well but I swear on my soul that I've neither submitted evidence nor done anything else of the sort.

In the morning you are all three speechless, owing to having caught severe colds in the night; you also feel very quarrelsome, and you swear at each other in hoarse whispers during the whole of breakfast time.

I did not even swear.

In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two boys and two girls who "have never been undutiful to their parents; who have never been known to swear or to tell untruths, to steal, or to break windows."

Now, if I were to halt the troops twice in the same place, you would all swear there was a petticoat in the wind."

"I swear you shall go then," said the Skinner.

"I care not where the dragoons are, but I will swear that I saw Captain Lawton enter the house of old Wharton, while I lay watching an opportunity of getting the British colonel's horse from the stable."

"None other, I swear by Heaven, none other has any claim on me!" cried Dunwoodie, with fervor.

"You do me injustice; I swear by all that is most dear to me, that you do me injustice."

"I'll swear that was a human pistol, and one from our regiment.

"Will you swear it?"

"Umph! a deserter - a Skinner, I'll swear, wanting to turn Cowboy!

He slept on doorsteps in fine weather and in empty hogsheads in wet; he did not have to go to school or to church, or call any being master or obey anybody; he could go fishing or swimming when and where he chose, and stay as long as it suited him; nobody forbade him to fight; he could sit up as late as he pleased; he was always the first boy that went barefoot in the spring and the last to resume leather in the fall; he never had to wash, nor put on clean clothes; he could swear wonderfully.

Now, look-a-here, Tom, less take and swear to one another--that's what we got to do--swear to keep mum."

Would you just hold hands and swear that we--""Oh no, that wouldn't do for this.

Tom soon found himself tormented with a desire to drink and swear; the desire grew to be so intense that nothing but the hope of a chance to display himself in his red sash kept him from withdrawing from the order.

He could drink and swear, now--but found to his surprise that he did not want to.

But let's swear again, anyway.

I dogged 'em to the widder's stile, and stood in the dark and heard the ragged one beg for the widder, and the Spaniard swear he'd spile her looks just as I told you and your two--" "What!

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