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It is due to him and to the good name of Italy, which has been damnably traduced by prejudiced and ignorant men, that the truth should be spoken. The dark and tragic story of the Italian retreat is lit up by many deeds of heroism, wherein the Italian soldier showed all his accustomed valour.
"Oh, but I'm sleepy," he murmured. "Good-night." And they left him. Alone with Allan, Bruce looked up with a savage glare. "Look here!" he snarled, between his teeth. "If you think I'm going to lie here and die you're mistaken! I won't! I won't let go! I'll show you chaps you can be wrong! Been wrong before, haven't you, thousands of times! Why be so damnably sure about me?"
I stopped and he joined me, with an expression both of amusement and annoyance on his face. "I am in a damnably awkward place, Babache," he said. "Of course, we all know about Jacques Haret, but the fellow has been permitted in all the houses where the Harets have been received for generations.
“There you’ve laid your finger on the mystery, Baron. Why? Heaven knows: I wish I did!” The Baron looked at him with undisguised interest. “Strange!” he said, thoughtfully. “Damnably strange. I found myself compelled to live in an asylum and answer to a new name, and really, don’t you know, under the circumstances I could give no very valid reason for getting out.
Why? Only perhaps that Keats died young one wants to write poetry too and to love oh, the brutes! It's damnably difficult. But, after all, not so difficult if on the next staircase, in the large room, there are two, three, five young men all convinced of this of brutality, that is, and the clear division between right and wrong.
'We've all faults, Sir; mine are not the worst, and I'll have neither shrift nor absolution. There's some reason here you won't disclose. He was proud, fierce, pale, and looked damnably handsome and wicked. 'She gave no reason, Sir; answered Dr. Walsingham. No, she gave none; but, as I understood, she did not love you, and she prayed me to mention it no more.
I've noticed this poor old world is generally blamed most damnably, purely because of the night of the morning after more especially upon an empty " "Don't say it again, Anthony, for heaven's sake!" "But you're curst gloomy and devilish doleful " "Anthony, dear man, while you were snoring blissfully this morning I watched a poor, beautiful young creature dragged out of the river." "Dead, Perry?"
"You've had a wet tramp of it," was all she found to reply, though aware that the speech was inconsequent and trivial. "Damnably. Left the coach at Fiddler's Cross, and trudged down across the fields. We were soaked enough on the coach, though, and couldn't get much worse." "We?" "Why, you don't suppose I was the only passenger by the coach, eh?" he put in quickly. "No, I forgot."
The astounding likeness between you and one who was snatched away in the flower of his youth draws me, sir, draws me most damnably; for I have a heart, sir, a heart why should I disguise it?" Here Mr. Smivvle tapped the third left-hand button of his coat.
Above the Court-house the town clock chimed its quarters across the afternoon heat. The Collector, glancing up in the act of turning a page, spied Mr. Trask hobbling down an alley towards the Jail. Mr. Trask, a martyr to gout, helped his progress with an oaken staff. He leaned on this as he halted before the stocks. "Tired?" he asked. "Damnably!" answered the Collector with great cheerfulness.
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