The next morning had brought Ted's pleasant, penitent note, explaining his defection and expressing the hope that they might meet again soon, signed hers "devotedly."

No government could subsist for a day, if single errours could justify defection.

Jane felt a renewal of her woes, in the anticipation of something similar for her sisterfor the fancy of Jane was yet active, and she did not cease to consider the defection of Egerton a kind of unmerited misfortune and fatality, instead of a probable consequence of want of principle.

I cannot myself believe that this abominable scheme is intended for execution, but it has nevertheless created much alarm in timid minds, and has occasioned in part the defection of the servants I have just mentioned.

Perhaps Janet would have obeyed, but Muckle John, swift to prevent defection, took up the parable.

de 's household; but our confinement had already shaken his principles, and this seizure of his "superb English boots" has, I believe, completed his defection.

"No longer will we halt at your command, no longer will your words be wisdom to us, no longer shall we smile with pleasure at your stories, and cringe with fear at your displeasure; you may hate our defection, you may lament our disloyalty, you may bribe us and smile upon us, you may preach to us and bewail our sins.

The Pelignians, imitating the defection of the Marsians, met the same fate.

Thus on the removal of Thraso, who formed the only bond which held together the alliance with the Romans, immediately affairs clearly indicated defection.

The Colonel, suddenly discovering that he could recite the thing from memory, did so with considerable dramatic effect, seeming not to notice the defection of Bedford.

He had regretted her defection, and now, recalling her, the other women seemed insipid, their childish graces and monotonous coquetry disgusting him.

"When I determined to forsake the bad old ways," Victor pursued"this you must know, my dearI had friendsof a sortwho resented my defection, set themselves against my will and, when they found they could not swerve me from my purpose, became my enemies.

Let Charles be waived whose condescending clemency aggravates the defection, and make Nero the question, better a Nero than a committee.

Caesar, for all his care, could neither prevent nor stifle this defection, which threatened to become contagious, and detach from Rome the neighboring peoplets that were still faithful.

The cardinal anticipated the defection of the British and Irish regiments in the French service; the protector foresaw that they would probably be employed in a descent upon England.

She was talking in as cool and matter-of-fact manner as if she had been discussing the defection of a cook.

There was, therefore, no objection against the troops of Hanover, that was not of equal strength against all foreign troops; and there was at least one argument in their favour, that they were subjects of the same prince; and that, therefore, we could have no reason to fear their defection, or to suspect their fidelity.

To these the Murgantian territories revolted; Hybla, Macella, and certain other towns of less note followed their defection.

So disgraceful an abandonment of his duty, which in other times must have cost him his throne, if not his life, was not visited with that rigor by the Russians which so glaring a defection deserved.