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"You will experience some trouble in finding your way back," said he, "allow me to accompany you." When we had got out he gave me to understand that chance had led me to the "Orange Coffee House," the most disreputable house in London. "But you go there." "Yes, but I can say with Juvenal: "'Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.
She showered upon him the tenderest epithets that love could devise, he addressed her from the North Pole of his frozen heart as the "Spouse of Christ!" The abandoned villain! On account of her too easy government of her nuns, some disreputable irregularities were discovered among them, and the Abbot of St. Denis broke up her establishment. Abelard was the official head of the monastery of St.
He was a kind-hearted man, who wanted to help Tom along in the world, and, therefore, was grieved when at the end of three weeks the latter came into Cooktown humping his swag, smoking a clay pipe, and looking exceedingly tired, dirty, and disreputable generally. However, all might have gone well even then had not Mrs.
I no 'fraid de dirt. Now, vat you say, señor? Bueno?" Thus speaking, she seized upon the discarded and somewhat disreputable garment, flung it carelessly about her shapely shoulders, shrugging them coquettishly, her great eyes shyly uplifting to his relenting face, and began swiftly to fasten up her already short dress in disregard of the exposure of trim ankles. The agitated Mr.
As I always look upon the tramp with a fraternal interest, however disreputable he may appear, because my own wayfaring has helped to teach me contempt for appearances, I stopped to talk with the aged wanderer while hunting for some stray sous.
"Come in," repeated the blacksmith in a louder tone. She went in, half frightened, like a disreputable woman gliding into a respectable place. He was quite pale, and trembled at the thought of ushering a woman like this into his dead mother's home. They crossed the room on tip-toe, as if they were ashamed to be heard. Then when he had pushed Gervaise into his own room he closed the door.
Then he told them of the strange club of the place, called "The Exiles," made up chiefly of "younger sons" of English and British-Canadian families, every member possessed of a "past" more or less disreputable; men who had left their country for their country's good, and for their family's peace of mind adventurers, wanderers, soldiers of fortune, gentlemen-vagabonds, men of hyphenated names and even noble birth, whose appellations were avowedly aliases.
"Sorry you won't join us." I took my place once more by Eve's side. Perhaps my tone was a little annoyed. "Your father is in there," I said, "with two of the most disreputable- looking ruffians I have ever seen crawling upon the face of the earth. What in the world induces him to sit at the same table with them I cannot imagine." "Necessity, perhaps," she remarked.
"Would you like to go inside it?" he said. "No, Ranny, dear, I wouldn't. At least, I'd rather not if you've no objection." She spoke firmly, seriously, as if she knew something against the Globe Theater, as if the Globe Theater were disreputable or improper. There's nothing I love so much as listening to a band." She knew that they charged nothing for listening to the band.
For though we have no disreputable cuckoo, ornithologically speaking, let us not congratulate ourselves too hastily. We have his counterpart in a black sheep of featherdom which vies with his European rival in deeds of cunning and cruelty, and which has not even a song to recommend him no vocal accomplishment which by the greatest of license could prompt a poet to exclaim,
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