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If you've GOT to settle the question right away, at least have the decency to go out of this room." Barnes flushed to the roots of his hair. Jones was aghast, dumb with surprise and anger. "You are right, Miss Thackeray," said the former, deeply mortified. "This is not the time nor the place to " "He can't understand a word we say," said Putnam Jones loudly.
No decency has been observed in the attacks upon me from authority; no protests have been offered against them. It is felt, I am far from denying, justly felt, that I am a foreign material, and cannot assimilate with the Church of England. "Even my own Bishop has said that my mode of interpreting the Articles makes them mean any thing or nothing.
Let no one ever tell me that that atrocity is American! Here it goes with every course, and without the pretended decency of holding one's serviette before one's mouth, which, in my opinion, is a mere affectation, and aggravates the offence. But the most shameless thing in all Europe is the marriage question.
Dacre was looking him full in the eyes with more of curiosity than apprehension. "And as you have foreseen I shall not refuse under those circumstances. It would have saved time if you had put it in that light before." "It would. But I hoped you might have the decency to act without persuasion." Monck was speaking between his teeth, but the revolver was concealed again in the folds of his garment.
Of the heavenly quietness and decency of life, of late breakfasts and later dinners, there is no need to tell, but even before the week was up unrest troubled us. The Division might go violently into action. The Germans might break through. The "old Div." would be wanting us, and we who felt towards the Division as others feel towards their Regiments were eager to get back....
And the invading crowd was to have manifested its indignation at this breach of all decency and proper custom, and sent the woman away, while they would have told the man what they thought of him, in spite of his rage, and warned him that he must mend his ways or quit the country.
But no one who had the authority asked, and as the appropriation was not cumulative, each passing year saw the loss of just so much to the cause of decency that was waiting without.
After this, he began to consult about the education of the youth, and the Discipline, as they call it; most of the particulars of which, Sphaerus, being then at Sparta, assisted in arranging; and, in a short time, the schools of exercise and the common tables recovered their ancient decency and order, a few out of necessity, but the most voluntarily, returning to that generous and Laconic way of living.
Then he was to be forcibly transferred to the northern coast on relays of horses, and hurried over to England. But, though the plotters threw the veil of decency over their enterprise by calling it kidnapping, they undoubtedly meant murder. Among Drake's papers there is a hint that the royalist emissaries were at first to speak only of the seizure and deportation of the First Consul.
I won't be angry, said he. Why, then, sir, said I, you cannot be my late good lady's son; for she loved me, and taught me virtue. You cannot then be my master; for no master demeans himself so to his poor servant. These are too great liberties, said he, in anger; and I desire that you will not repeat them, for your own sake: For if you have no decency towards me, I'll have none towards you.
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