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“Fully,” said Ramorny; and, stepping to the window, he called Dwining from the boat.
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He regarded the knight, in comparison with himself, as scarcely rising above the brute creation; capable, indeed, of working destruction, as the bull with his horns or the wolf with his fangs, but mastered by mean prejudices, and a slave to priest craft, in which phrase Dwining included religion of every kind.
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He regarded the knight, in comparison with himself, as scarcely rising above the brute creation; capable, indeed, of working destruction, as the bull with his horns or the wolf with his fangs, but mastered by mean prejudices, and a slave to priest craft, in which phrase Dwining included religion of every kind.
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801
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“Nay, I do not recommend it to your knighthood, save in an extremity,” replied Dwining.
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“I am of a different opinion, may it please your knighthood,” answered Dwining, gently.
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“Upon the whole, therefore,” said Dwining, “your knighthood has escaped well, and, saving the lack of your hand, a mischance beyond remedy, you ought rather to rejoice than complain; for no barber chirurgeon in France or England could have more ably performed the operation than this churl with one downright blow.”
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Here he found Henbane Dwining, on whom it was his hard fate to depend for consolation in both respects.
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In a few minutes, for he was a clerk of rare celerity, Dwining finished
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Dwining viewed the naked stump with a species of professional satisfaction, enhanced, no doubt, by the malignant pleasure which his evil disposition took in the pain and distress of his fellow creatures.
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“Opiferque per orbem dicor,” said Henbane Dwining.
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