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"You were seen coming into the house after eight o'clock in the morning," he continued, paused again and then, as I kept silence, added, "In evening dress." "Is that all?" I asked. It was not. He had kept the decisive accusation until the end. "Your bed had not been slept in," he concluded wearily, as if to say, "My good idiot, why persist in this damning assumption of innocence?"
Hence, instead of being a hindrance, art ought to be a help to a rational morality: its realism should foster sincerity, its imagination, sympathy and justice. The philistine's objection to art is that it is useless. And if we only knew what was really useful, this would be a damning indictment. But, not being much given to abstract reflection, the philistine is usually at a loss to inform us.
Was I not among the first to profess your damning heresy? The house of Costantîn are converts of last year. Let Allah judge between us this day." She paused a moment, the better to gesticulate a frantic reverence to the ladies, now on the opposite slope, who were waving hands to her. "O poor little Hilda!
No doubt my conduct was handled there in very severe terms. No doubt the insinuations, if true, or if of such kind as to be worthy of credit with your lordship, whether true or false, were severe, plain-spoken, and damning. The language was so abominable, so vulgar, so nauseous, that I will not trust myself to repeat it. Your lordship, probably, when sending me one copy, kept another.
"Not after to-night, I think." He got up and opened the door. "Anyhow, you'll clear out of this room now, damn you." "I wish you'd heard that Army doctor damning you." "Why didn't he go back with you himself, then?" "He couldn't leave his wounded." He slammed the door hard behind her. That was just like him. Wounded men everywhere, trying to sleep, and he slammed doors. He didn't care.
Gradually the "clearings" became larger; they saw the distant white wooden colonnades of some planter's house, looking still opulent and pretentious, although the fence of its inclosure had broken gaps, and the gate sagged on its single hinge. Mr. Drummond sniffed at this damning record of neglect and indifference.
Eve the less inflammable muttered darkly that it was all up with Minoók, if a person couldn't go on a stampede without havin' his dust took out of his cabin. The crowd was pressing Charlie, and twenty cross-questions were asked him in a minute. He, beside himself with rage, or fear, or both, lost all power except to curse. The Judge seemed to be taking down damning evidence on the dirty envelope.
Do you expect me to believe that that bold libertine, who made you the object of his unrepressed admiration, was your father? Why, that man was not old enough to be your father, and if ever profligacy was written on a human countenance, its damning lines were traced on his. Your father! Away with a subterfuge so vile and flimsy, a falsehood so wanton and sacrilegious."
That fact and the added circumstance that Aline herself never had mentioned the man was in his eyes so suspicious as to be almost a damning evidence of deception. And he argued that if in the past Aline had deceived him as to Charles Cochran she would continue to do so. Accordingly, instead of asking her frankly for the truth he proceeded to lay traps for it.
Do you really fancy you should be more beholden to your correspondent, if he had been damning you all the while for your importunity? Pleasures are more beneficial than duties because, like the quality of mercy, they are not strained, and they are twice blest.
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