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Looney Biddle so-called by an affectionately admiring public as the result of certain marked eccentricities was beyond dispute the greatest left-handed pitcher New York had possessed in the last decade. But there was one blot on Mr. Biddle's otherwise stainless scutcheon. Five weeks before, on the occasion of the Giants' invasion of Pittsburg, he had gone mysteriously to pieces.
The horror of the night could not endure the strong sun and wind of the March morning that followed. Like Scrooge, I analyzed my ghost as a bit of undigested beef or a blot of mustard. Certainly the thing had been actual enough while it lasted, but my reason had thrust it away. That was over, I reflected, as I laid the braid back in the drawer.
But for all this, Rudolph Hackh felt young, homesick, timid of the future, and already oppressed with the distance, the age, the manifold, placid mystery of China. Toward that mystery, meanwhile, the ship began to creep. Behind her, houses, multi-colored funnels, scrubby trees, slowly swung to blot out the glowing Mediterranean and the western hemisphere.
"You imply, then, that there is a blot upon mine?" "That is what prompts our visit, sir. Can you assure us that there is none?" After a moment of hesitation Gray inquired, curiously: "Judge, do you believe that a man can live down disgrace?" "Disgrace, yes. Dishonor, never! A man's honor is so sensitive that to stain it is to wound it.
Never mind. They're all safe. I know where they keep them." "Ratman," said the captain, "you have a very poor idea of humour. You have made me blot my letter, and I shall have to write it over again." "Take your time, old boy. No hurry. I shall not be going away for six months or so." Captain Oliphant came to the conclusion he had better finish the letter with the blot than attempt a new one.
I had heard that officers were being recruited for Tonquin, and I determined to volunteer for this service. My suicide would not have bettered matters; it would rather have left an added blot upon our family name.
It stood two storied, verandaed and hideous, a blot upon the soil of picturesque Mexico. To the roof of the veranda clambered the three prowlers, and across it to an open window. The window belonged to the bedroom of Miss Barbara Harding. Here they paused and listened, then two of them entered the room. They were gone for but a few minutes.
He kissed me once again, and now the tears were in his eyes as he said more softly, "Esther, my dearest, after so many years, there is a kind of parting in this too. I know that my mistake has caused you some distress. Forgive your old guardian, in restoring him to his old place in your affections; and blot it out of your memory. Allan, take my dear."
The Staines had very few friends, and those they had were hard riding, hunting people, who never look their best in satin. There was no doubt that the Staines sitting in the front seat were a blot on the whole affair. You couldn't tell everybody that they were a county family, and they didn't look like it. They were too large and coarse, and took up far too much room.
There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who in love and truth Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth: Glad hearts! without reproach or blot, Who do thy work, and know it not: O! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power! around them cast. Ode to Duty.
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