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Occasionally he does so, as when any serious accusation was brought against the legitimacy of his acts; and these are among the most important and interesting chapters in his work. But his habitual method of exculpating himself is by his persuasive moderation of statement, and his masterly collocation of events.
After you rest a while we'll probe for it and see if we can get it out. Don't talk any more. Just lie quietly and sleep if you can." The boys were out-of-doors. Doctor Joe was glad they had not heard Lem's accusation against Indian Jake. The half-breed had been good to them, and they held vast faith in his integrity.
You shall never have to say that I pressed you into this marriage or debarred you from marrying. I could not bear such an accusation." "But you might tell me what I ought to do." "No; certainly not." "Think how young I am, and, by comparison, how old you are. You are eight years older than I am. Remember; after all that I have gone through, I am but twenty-two.
Now, in saying all this we would not have it thought that we are bringing a sweeping accusation against one section of the nation.
The reader is aware that whatever show of truth there might be for this accusation, as far as Martin and Moylan himself were concerned, the widow at any rate was innocent; and he can conceive the good lady's indignation at the idea of her own connection, Moylan, having been seduced over to the enemy.
Yet sometimes he would ask himself wherein was he better than they,—had Democrates’s accusation been true, could he have asked a greater reward from the Barbarian? And what he would do on the day of battle he did not dare to ask of his own soul. Xerxes left Sardis with the host amidst the same splendour with which he had entered.
"It might be well if Miss Van Arsdale herself would answer you," was the inspector's quiet retort. "What you have said may constitute all that we have against you, but it is not all we have against her." I gasped, not so much at this seeming accusation, the motive of which I believed myself to understand, but at the burning blush with which it was received by Mr. Durand.
The reader will remember that the accusation is based solely on Cicero's own statement that Antony was negligent in paying to him money that had been promised. In all these accusations the evidence against Cicero, such as it is, is brought exclusively from Cicero's own words.
Probably the permission will not be granted, and the affair will have to stop at that stage; but the matter being once made known will circulate through the Chambers, the newspapers will get hold of it and make a stir, and the ministry, sub rosa, can envenom the vague accusation through its friends."
Fett, whose active fancy had already invented a grotesque and wholly untruthful accusation against his friend namely, that when assailed by the Moors, and in the act of being kicked below, he had dropped on his knees and offered to turn Mohammedan.
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