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"The work is sure to be a masterpiece, but he can't sign it, you know, for fear of compromising her." "Ah! I'd return all my crosses to the sovereigns who gave them to me for the devotion that youth can win," said the count. "That's just it!" said Mistigris, "when one's young, one's loved; plenty of love, plenty of women; but they do say: 'Where there's wife, there's mope."
Nothing! He returned at last, exhausted with fatigue, to Lima; the clock of the cathedral was striking four. Don Vegal remarked some groups of Indians before his dwelling; but he could not, without compromising the man of whom he was in search, ask them "Where is Martin Paz?" He re-entered, more despairing than ever.
Compromising for the nonce with his teetotalism as well as his vegetarianism not to pain the hosts Piers drank bottled ale. It was an uproarious meal. The little servant, whilst in attendance, took her full share of the conversation, and joined shrilly in the laughter. Mrs. Otway had arrayed herself in a scarlet gown, and her hair was picturesquely braided.
At the same time marriage means compromise. You understand?" "When a man says that he usually implies that the woman will do most of the compromising, in order that he may have his own way." "Within limits, a man has a certain right to his own way in his own house." "And generally gets it!" she answered lightly.
"I can make it even more unpleasant for him, Miss Madden, than it is for me." "What, after all the compromising?" "I think so. If, for instance, I chose to tell somebody what happened the other day, what you saw yourself." "Did I see anything?" "You can't deny that you saw something you were not meant to see." "You mean Wednesday afternoon? Well, if Mr.
Can it be a compromising correspondence which the fair one wants to secure?" Madeleine took the papers, but was apparently still dissatisfied. She again entreated him to give her something else. Raoul refused; and then she threw the papers on the table. The papers seemed to puzzle M. Verduret very much, as he gazed at them through the window.
"And what hotel shall you choose in Paris?" asked the Foreign Secretary. "It should be a good one, I don't need to remind you, where Mademoiselle de Renzie could go without danger of compromising herself, in case she should be recognised in spite of the veil she's pretty certain to wear. Yet it shouldn't be in too central a situation." "Shall it be the Élysèe Palace?" asked Ivor.
We had a long, low, rakish ship lying in the river just off the tunnel's mouth; black-bearded ruffians, with knives between their teeth, stealing ashore and disappearing within the dark underground passage; the great stone table down there heaped with Spanish gold; good Jamaica rum pouring down wicked throats; the dark tunnels ever echoing the rollicking chorus, "Six men sat on the dead man's chest" when suddenly it occurred to us that we were somewhat compromising the old colonial grandee, Colonel Byrd.
He did most of the talking, even though his loquacity occasionally broke down in a racking cough, which literally seemed to tear at his chest, and left him panting, hoarse, and with beads of moisture upon his low, pallid forehead. Of course, the men found nothing that could even remotely be termed compromising.
"Oh!" she cried, her eyes following the doctor's and lighting upon two figures that stood at the side of the poplar bluff in an attitude sufficiently compromising to justify the doctor's exclamation. "What? It's Moira and and it's Smith! What does it mean?" The doctor's language appeared unequal to his emotions. "Mean?" he cried, after an exhausting interlude of expletives. "Mean?
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