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"The Republican Party is going to the dogs," he asserted. "It used to be an honourable party, but now it is no better than the other. Politics are only conducted, now, for the purpose of making unscrupulous men rich, sir. For years I furnished this city with good groceries, if I do say it myself.
He therefore proposed to send back with Ruthven a retainer of his own with a warrant to Gowrie, then Provost of Perth, and the Bailies, to take over the man and the money. Ruthven replied that, if they did, the money would be ill reckoned, and begged the King to ride over at once, be 'the first seer, and reward him 'at his own honourable discretion.
"It's all I know about." "Amen to that divorce," rejoined Shon. "But were it not for the Tobogan Ride we shouldn't have stopped here," said the Honourable; "and where would this meeting have been?" "That alters the case," Sir Duke remarked. "I take back the 'Amen," said Shon.
But on occasion the flames would rise and burn for a moment with their old-time ardour. The poem 'After Glow' was penned one night just following a visit with a young woman, Jeanette, only daughter of Honourable and Mrs.
The news in the 'Gazette' came upon me like a thunderbolt. I didn't know what to think. I'm afraid I thought the worst, the very horrid worst that you had got tired of it and resigned of your own accord. How was one to know? Your letter was almost a relief. "In offering to release me from my engagement you are acting like the honourable gentleman you are. Of course, I can understand your feelings.
My mind was therefore hourly replete with inventions and thoughts of being freed, and, if possible, by honest and honourable means; for I always remembered the old adage; and I trust it has ever been my ruling principle, that honesty is the best policy; and likewise that other golden precept to do unto all men as I would they should do unto me.
But first he must clear his tarnished honour tarnished with the foul proposal made to him by Count Simon of Sagan. He had passed through life a cold and, in his own sense of the word, an honourable man, disliked, feared and avoided outside his own most intimate circle.
'Yes, yes, I comprehend; your country breeds honourable men, chivalrous youngsters, he replied. 'It 's not enough not enough. I want to see a mental force, energy of brain. If you had that, you might look as high as you liked for the match for it, with my consent. Do you hear? What I won't have is, flat robbery!
And I should have thought it an inexcusable one, had I been used with less severity than I have been of late; and had I not had too great reason to apprehend, that I was to be made a sacrifice to a man I could not bear to think of. But what is done, is done perhaps I could wish it had not; and that I had trusted to the relenting of my dear and honourable parents.
I recollect a young man, a cadet, who was proceeding up the river, and was not accustomed to these creatures, incautiously shot one of the older gentlemen out of several whom he saw. Even amongst these animals age is honourable; they one, and all sallied out upon him, and he took to his heels fast, throwing away his pouch, which was full of balls, shot, &c.
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