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I gave a party, inviting all the young people from Jacksonville and the country around: those that I knew and those that I didn't all but Lamborn. The omission would be notable, but I could not invite him. The matter was promptly gossiped about. Lamborn himself was stirred to talk now. He made the most detestable references to Zoe and me; and I was told of them.
But it was Jeffreys' 'Western Circuit, as it was called, that filled up the cup of his infamy an infamy, say the historians, that will last as long as the language and the history of England last. The only parallel to it is the infamy of a royal house and a royal court that could welcome home and promote to honour such a detestable miscreant as Jeffreys was.
Positively, I never tasted anything so detestable, such a sour and bitter juice, still lukewarm with fermentation; it was a wail of woe, squeezed out of the wine-press of tribulation, and the more a man drinks of such, the sorrier he will be. Besides grapes, we have had figs, and I have now learned to be very fond of them.
The third time the queen lay in she was delivered of a princess, which innocent babe underwent the same fate as the princes her brothers; for the two sisters being determined not to desist from their detestable schemes, till they had seen the queen their younger sister at least cast off, turned out, and humbled, exposed this infant also on the canal.
Oh! that detestable Miss Hart is going. What a dreadfully vulgar purple blouse she has on! And her hair is so unpleasant. It always looks damp and shows the marks of the comb. I wonder why hair of that particular colour always does look damp." Here she bowed stiffly without rising. "I shall simply ignore George, and not speak to him. I think that will be sufficiently marked.
All sorts of reflections of this nature passed through my mind for as I grow older I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me while I stood and stared at those grim yet fantastic lines of warriors, sleeping, as their saying goes, "upon their spears." "Curtis," I said, "I am in a condition of pitiable fear."
After my departure the garcon de toilette whom I had taken to Madame Vallayer Coster's was sent there with the portfolio she had agreed to receive. This commission could not escape the detestable spy upon the Queen.
Poor plump Miss Amelia was trying first one method, and then another. "Poor darling," she said one moment, "I know you haven't any mamma, poor " Then in quite another tone, "If you don't stop, Lottie, I will shake you. Poor little angel! There ! You wicked, bad, detestable child, I will smack you! I will!" Sara went to them quietly.
Striking phenomenon. The omen. Manoeuvres. Night before the battle. Morning of the battle. Henry's address to his army. The prayer of Henry. Anecdote. Magnanimity of Henry. The battle of Ivry. Heroism of Henry. The Leaguers vanquished. Flight of the Leaguers. Detestable conduct of Mayenne. Lines on the battle of Ivry. Paris in consternation. Inexplicable delay. Magnanimity to the Swiss Catholics.
His conception of Milvain's character made it easy for him to form a just surmise as to the reasons for this postponement; he was gratified to think that Marian might learn how rightly he had judged her wooer, and an involuntary pity for the girl did not prevent his hoping that the detestable alliance was doomed. With difficulty he refrained from smiling.
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