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Here I paused to take breath, which gave the inspector chance to say: "In other words, this is what you think. The Englishman, desirous of covering up his tracks, conceived the idea of having this imitation on hand, in case it might be of use in the daring and disgraceful undertaking you ascribe to him.
Coming to specific charges, the writer said further on: "A handsome female, a Broadway shop-lifter, recently testified that although she had been desirous of reforming her life for a year past, she had been totally prevented from so doing by the extortions of certain members of the detective force, who threatened to reveal her former history unless she 'came down handsomely, and in order to 'come down, as they styled it, she was obliged to resort to her old disgraceful business."
The King delighted to manage the most disgraceful points of his private expenses himself; he one day sold to a head clerk in the War Department a house in which one of his mistresses had lodged; the contract ran in the name of Louis de Bourbon, and the purchaser himself took in a bag the price of the house in gold to the King in his private closet.
Now there will be this disgraceful marriage. Would you wish that I should receive the Post Office clerk here as my son-in-law?" "There won't be any disgraceful marriage," said the Marquis. "At least, what I mean is, that it will be much less likely at Hendon than here." "Less likely than here! Here it would have been impossible. There they will be all together." "No such thing," said the Marquis.
"Mr Ellis," began John, with his pale face flushing and his dark eyes wandering as he tried to fix them upon the speaker's face. "Silence, sir! How dare you! How long has this disgraceful business been going on?" "Oh, father, father!" cried Mary, clinging to him; "pray, pray say no more. We are not alone." "No," cried Ellis, who had now worked himself into a towering passion; "we are not alone.
And you never saw anything like his accounts! I have been trying to put some of them straight just those that concern the house and garden after six weeks' acquaintance! Odd, isn't it? He is like an irritable child with them. And his agent, who is seventy, and bronchitic, is the greatest fool I ever saw. He neglects everything. His accounts too, as far as I have inspected them, are disgraceful.
Meanwhile the dog is clear in his own conscience, and draws, with a human nicety, the distinction between formal and essential truth. Of his punning perversions, his legitimate dexterity with symbols, he is even vain; but when he has told and been detected in a lie, there is not a hair upon his body but confesses guilt. To a dog of gentlemanly feeling, theft and falsehood are disgraceful vices.
"Oh! there you are!" she cried before he could raise his eyes. "Did you ever see anything so disgraceful as this crossing not a plank nothing. No get out of my way, Peter; you will just upset me, and I would rather help myself."
The three girls arrived just in time to hear a discussion regarding Kit Patten's behavior. Vivian Long, Edith Whalen's friend, was talking. "I think after such a disgraceful thing, Kit Patten should be asked to resign from the club." "Don't you think she should be allowed to defend herself?" asked Shirley, not waiting to be seated. At a nudge from Edith, Vivian was again on her feet.
"I can't explain that," declared Elliott, a little shortly, "but it's all rubbish, and I don't think you ought to be allowed to go to such places! It's disgraceful " "You hush up, Mason," Miss Ames cried; "I'll go where I like! I'm not a child. And, too, I wasn't alone I had an escort a very nice one." She looked kindly at Fibsy. "Thank you, ma'am," he returned, bobbing his funny red head.
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