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" ... liberty of his nature revolted as from a galley-slave's fetters. In Erceldoune's creed a landless gentleman was worthy of his blood so long as he was free — no longer. Therefore he entered the messenger service; and, on the whole, the life, which... "
Idalia, by 'Ouida'. - Page 33
by Marie Louise De la Ramée - 1867
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 133

1865 - 520 pages
...he is free — no longer. Therefore he entered the messenger service ; and, on the whole, the life suited him as well as any, save a soldier's, could...woman who could beguile, or a man who could fool, Fulke Erceldoune, the Arabs of the deserts welcomed as one of themselves the Frank, who rode as they...
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Idalia: A Novel

Ouida - 1900 - 604 pages
...or civil fashionable appointments offered him, the circles into which he would have been thrown mast have flung him into debt, and into every temptation...in him a volunteer, fiery, and elastic as any their battalions held ; the fishers of Scandinavia had lived with him through many a blinding icy midnight...
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