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He fully agreed with the decision of his chiefs to have nothing more to do with such a graceless crew till the injury was atoned for; and meanwhile he felt himself at perfect liberty nay, it was his painful duty to insult, abuse, and maltreat, as occasion offered, every one unlucky enough to wear the schoolhouse ribbon on his cap.
"No," replied I, forgetting myself a little; "and a pretty mess you made of it." "I did," rejoined my father in a rage, "by begetting an undutiful, good-for-nothing, graceless, insolent, ungrateful son." "My dear father, I was not aware that I had a brother." "I mean you, sir."
'I have as much as I went for, she replied, and gravely thanked the assistant leaning on his thumbs across the counter; after which, dropping the graceless play of an enigma, she inquired whether I had forgotten the Frau von Dittmarsch. I had, utterly; but not her maiden name of Sibley. 'Miss Goodwin, is she one of those who are coming to the island? 'Frau von Dittmarsch? Yes.
"But, Simon," said Mistress Attwood, "'tis the Lord Admiral's own company surely they are not all graceless! And," she continued with very quiet dignity, "since mine own cousin Anne Hathaway married Will Shakspere the play-actor, 'tis scarcely kind to call all players rogues and low." "No more o' this, Margaret," cried Attwood, flushing angrily.
The stiff, monotonous countenances of officers and civilians, in their graceless modern costumes, were not very attractive subjects for the pencil. He forgot all his graceful draping, his easy attitudes, his power of representing the passions. As to skilful grouping or dramatic effect in painting, all that was quite out of the question.
Graceless is the traveller who forgets his obligations to these saints upon earth; little love has he for merry Christendom if he has not rejoiced with great joy to find in the very midst of water-drinking infidels those lowly monasteries, in which the blessed juice of the grape is quaffed in peace.
To be sure, a goodly pile of money was accumulating in the hut where he and Dumnorix, his fellow-leader, made their headquarters; and the bandits carried away with them to their stronghold a number of slave and peasant girls, who aided to make the camp the scene of enough riot and orgy to satisfy the most graceless; but Gabinius had higher ambitions than these.
"It is different for you, brother they owe you no grudge," said Joan, with a slight shiver; whilst the farmer broke in roughly: "Tut, tut, Jack! what mean you by trying to make common cause with the ruffians who would have carried your sister off as a prey of that graceless scamp well-called Devil's Own? I marvel to hear such words from you. You should know better."
'I ask ye not to tarry in what ye must deem a graceless household; and he looked sadly across at his two sons, boys in age, but seniors in excess. 'I would we had mair lads like you. I fear me a heavy reckoning is coming. 'You have ever been good lord to all, Sir, said Kennedy, affectionately, for he really loved and pitied the soft-hearted Duke. 'Too good, maybe, said Murdoch.
I say, people don't do such deeds as these, merely because a graceless son comes to them, and says, 'if you please, mother. Do you understand that, child? I've blood enough on my hands already good blood too they are not defiled with the scum of a parish boy, nor shall they be, without " "Without what, mother?"
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