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Satisfied that he was more 'sinned against, than sinning, I yet endeavoured to deal justly with the unprincipled authors of the stain upon my family, and employed a discreet agent to negotiate with them, and to try to effect some compromise.
Then as solemnly they marched out again, with their heads well in the air, looking neither to the right nor the left. Most discreet if not incorruptible guardians of the peace! When the door was shut the music began again; but Gigi was so earnest in his protestations, that my friend Browning suggested we should get into carriages and drive to see the Coliseum by moonlight.
There were many monuments in the church, on which Hugh read the history of the ancient family, now engulphed in a family more wealthy and ancient still; the latest of the memorials was that of a lady, whose head, sculptured by Chantrey, with its odd puffs of hair, had a discreet and smiling mien, as of one who had known enough sorrow to purge prosperity of its grossness.
"There is no crisis but an artificial one," he said. And the country stood aghast! Amazement, bewilderment, indignation, was the course of the reaction in many minds of his own party. Their verdict was expressed in the angry language of Samuel Bowles, "Lincoln is a Simple Susan." In private talk, Lincoln admitted that he was "more troubled about the outlook than he thought it discreet to show."
"Ah, Messieurs," she cried, "you will ruin my poor house." The five rose and bowed with marked profundity. One of them, with a puffy, weak, good-natured face, answered her briskly, and after a little raillery she came back to me. I had a question not over discreet on my tongue's tip. "There are some fine residences going up here, Madame," I said.
Naturally Frank was never very far away from Jack's thoughts just now ever since, indeed, he had heard the news in a very discreet letter from the Reverend James Launton a week or two ago. He had written a frantic letter to Frank himself then, but it had been returned, marked: "Unknown at this address."
"She is modest and discreet," she thought, "but, for all that, a lionne still!" "Are you unwell?" asked Panshine, meanwhile. "I am not quite well," replied Liza. "I understand," he said, after rather a long silence, "Yes, I understand." "What do you mean?" "I understand," significantly repeated Panshine, who simply was at a loss for something to say.
This speech seemed to the lady very contrary to that whereto she thought to come for the keeping of her promise to her son, albeit, like a discreet woman as she was, she inwardly much commended the damsel therefor, and she said, 'How now, Jeannette?
"It's come to me to observe that among the chosen people there ain't no gainsayin' it, Sister Halsey, though I trust you to be discreet and not mention the matter, but in the days when the divine favour rested on Israel each man had more than one wife; and the Lord Himself says He give them to Solomon, the only objection being to heathen partners." "Do you mean, Mr.
And we are careful that the face of the dog shall express the greater intelligence. And the woman with the flame in her heart? From her we have nothing to gain so what would you? Her nature was too great to be discreet.
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