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The rash act was discovered by a yellow-haired party, who stated that she was to be his wife ere long, and that he "expected" he could lick any party who winked at her. A cursory examination of his frame convinced me that he could lick me with disgustin ease, so I told him it was a complaint of the eyes. "They are both so," I added, "and they have been so from infancy's hour. See here!"
At any rate, no such person as the Reverend Richard Peploe Brabazon was ever afterwards heard of and, for the matter of that, no such village exists as Empingham, Northumberland. We communicated the matter to the Parisian police. They were most unsympathetic. "It is no doubt Colonel Clay," said the official whom we saw; "but you seem to have little just ground of complaint against him.
Judge: You did not call upon Schoeman to produce any evidence against her? Witness: No. Judge: His letter of complaint to you seemed sufficient? Witness: Yes. Judge: You did not give her any opportunity to bring evidence? Witness: It was not necessary.
The house was consumed, and the intense heat of the fire subjected our partisan, in his place of retreat, to such torture, as none but the most dogged hardihood could have endured without complaint.
Ain't he, pretty? or, when he got downstairs, making another trial at that verse of Lovely Peg. But it stuck in his throat somehow, and he could make nothing of it; so he went to bed, and dreamed that old Sol Gills was married to Mrs MacStinger, and kept prisoner by that lady in a secret chamber on a short allowance of victuals. Mr Toots's Complaint
Ward was not more remarkable for humanity and skill than for wit and humour. An old woman, to whom he had administered some medicines proper for a disorder under which she laboured, applied to him, with a complaint that she had not experienced any kind of effect from taking them. "No effect at all?" said the doctor. "None in the least," replied the woman.
She, however, was a woman who could do her duty and endure without complaint. 'It is the first great ball I ever was at in London, said Hetta Carbury to Paul Montague. 'And how do you like it? 'Not at all. How should I like it? I know nobody here. I don't understand how it is that at these parties people do know each other, or whether they all go dancing about without knowing.
"Why I ever thought of it?" he repeated, looking down at her as much as to ask whom on earth should he come to then. "If you had a complaint to make, why didn't you go direct to my father?" "Ah, but I don't know your father, you see." "Oh!... And you consider that you do know me?" The man's right hand, which rested upon the pilaster, seemed to shake a little.
In those early days of loneliness and danger the Elder's steadfastness and reticence had prevented him from affording to his wife the sympathy which might have enabled her to overcome her fears. "He never talked anythin' over with me," was the burden of her complaint.
I told the mother what had passed between me and her daughter; I made no complaint of Lilian's coldness and change; I did not hint at its cause. "Girls of her age will change," said I, "and all that now remains is for us two to agree on such a tale to our curious neighbours as may rest the whole blame on me.
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