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I feel it due, if not to Graham himself, at least to the memory of the dignified orator whose name he inherits, so to modify and soften the hardy style of that peculiar diction in which he disguises his birth and disgraces his culture, that it is only here and there that I can venture to indicate the general tone of it; but in order to supply my deficiencies therein, the reader has only to call to mind the forms of phraseology which polite novelists in vogue, especially young-lady novelists, ascribe to well-born gentlemen, and more emphatically to those in the higher ranks of the Peerage.

"She was a generous enemy, papa, and a noble woman. But are not the common people in Russia very ignorant and bad?" "Very ignorant I believe they are, but it would be harsh and wrong to call them very bad. They are cheerful and good-tempered, and even when intoxicated they do not show the ferocity which disgraces a drunkard in England." "But are they not dreadful thieves?"

"She has made me contemptible in the eyes of this neighborhood, and now appears determined to disgrace herself." "Don't say that, John." "Why not? It's a fact." "It is not a fact. I am not afraid of a daughter of mine disgracing herself. It's only bad blood that disgraces itself." "I am not so sure about that when women throughout the entire country are striving to be unnatural. By the blood "

I must refer to a very early period of my life, were I to point out my first achievements as a tale-teller; but I believe some of my old schoolfellows can still bear witness that I had a distinguished character for that talent, at a time when the applause of my companions was my recompense for the disgraces and punishments which the future romance-writer incurred for being idle himself, and keeping others idle, during hours that should have been employed on our tasks.

Quaint as an old Dutch mill, with its overhanging second story, this fort of rude type answers its purpose well, for only Indians are likely to assail it, and Indians bring no artillery. A summer morning comes, an August morning in the year 1812. There is war, and there have been disgraces and defeats and wavering counsels.

"That question, at least, I can answer; for though I lost all trace of her life, his life was pretty well known to me till its end; and a very few months after she fled he was enchained to another. Let us talk of her no more." "Ay, ay," muttered De Mauleon, "some disgraces are not to be redeemed, and therefore not to be discussed.

The Southern States, according to their own evidence, are impoverished by it; a great amount of wretchedness and crime inevitably follows in its train; the prosperity of the North is continually checked by it; it promotes feelings of rivalry between the States; it separates our interests; makes our councils discordant; threatens the destruction of our government; and disgraces us in the eyes of the world.

If I must tell you the truth, Porthos, that poet disgraces you." "Eh! my friend; but what saves us is that he is not here as a poet." "As what, then, is he?" "As printer. And you make me remember, I have a word to say to the cuistre." "Say it, then."

It was a great day for the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, when the legal disabilities which weighed so long on the Catholic people, were removed. It was the noble and powerful protest of a mighty empire against the narrow and irrational spirit of persecution, which still disgraces so many of the European nations.

"What right spirit?" croaked Mrs. Maynard. "The wish to please him, to" "I don't choose to have him say that his child disgraces him," replied Mrs. Maynard, in the low, husky, monotonous murmur in which she was obliged to utter everything. "But, dear Louise!" cried the other, "you choose something else too, don't you?