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"George and Alan always look portentously solemn and gloomy whenever one mentions the subject, so I don't. If you ask me for the truth, I believe it to be a pure invention, devised by the Mervyns for the purpose of delicately accounting for some of the disreputable actions of their ancestors.
He had become, it seemed, a man of low and degrading tastes 'Erb Redmayne, he was called, or old 'Erb, whose role was to lead the other authorities of the college into all kinds of disreputable haunts, to prompt them to absurd misdeeds, to take advantage of their ingenuousness, to make scapegoats of them, and to adroitly evade justice himself.
Just seven days after the march began, the little army encamped for a night's rest at the edge of a wood; and here, just after nightfall, when the fires were burning merrily and the smell of broiling buffalo steaks burdened the damp air, a wizzened old man suddenly appeared, how or from where nobody had observed He was dirty and in every way disreputable in appearance, looking like an animated mummy, bearing a long rifle on his shoulder, and walking with the somewhat halting activity of a very old, yet vivacious and energetic simian.
This assertion was a falsehood on the part of the countess; Lord George had never been an errand-boy, and the Aberdeen lawyer, as provincial Scotch lawyers go, had been by no means disreputable. "I'm told that the police think that he has got them." "How very dreadful!" "Yes; it's dreadful enough. At any rate, men got into Lizzie's room at night and took away the iron box and diamonds and all.
"I intend to shield myself from your violent proceedings under the protection of the law, and to defend myself against a man with whom I ought never to have had any connection, and who has compelled me to pass the night in a disreputable place." "In a disreputable place?" "Of course. Why was I, against all right and justice, prevented from entering my own dwelling?"
"He died of heart failure," said my father, "in a disreputable place. They tried to hush it up, but the facts came out. When I heard of it, I plumped right down in a chair and laughed till I was almost sick. I knew what he was," he said with sudden savageness, "all along. But there is no making a woman believe what she doesn't want to believe. He was fascinating to women, and a cur.
'He shouted, and drank, and gambled, and danced, and sang, and fought the new chums all night, and in the morning he said "Well, boys, we had a grand time last night. Come and have a drink with me." 'And of course they went in and had a drink with him. 'Next morning the Flour was walking along the street, when he met a drunken, disreputable old hag, known among the boys as the "Nipper".
Once as he peered out, a disreputable looking cur snapped at his legs. First, the lad coaxed the animal, then tried to drive him away, finally administering a kick that sent the dog away howling. "I've got revenge on one of the gang anyway," he laughed. "But it's not much of a revenge, at that. I wonder if they are going to bring me anything to eat.
Dick presented to the expectant three the same disreputable and truculent aspect which had so deeply offended Charles of Mayfair an aspect so extraordinary as to strike speechless for a moment even the three so deeply interested in his advent. "That chair with arms," said Dick to the sergeant, "or he'll fall off."
She had had some idea of making it "Sir," but thought better of it. The kitten, deposited on the counter, concerned itself with a blue-bottle fly. The man remarked that it was coming on to rain. Mrs. Tapping had not took notice of any rain, but believed the statement. Why is it that one accepts as true any statement made by a visibly disreputable male? Mrs.
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