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"They're much too clever to employ a hussy like that, who shows her hand at every turn, either as a spy or a messenger of spies, and the mulattoes are too stupid, to say nothing of their probable fidelity to us. No, General, if we are watched, it is by an eagle, and not a mocking-bird.
But one morning while he was drinking a glass with a friend in a wineshop in the Rue Saint-Denis, he perceived the hussy darting down the street. For a fortnight she had been deceiving him; instead of going into the workroom, she climbed a story higher, and sat down on the stairs, waiting till he had gone off.
There isna a hussy now on this side of thirty that you can bring within your doors, but there will be chields writer-lads, prentice-lads, and what not coming traiking after them for their destruction, and discrediting ane's honest house into the bargain I hae nae patience wi' them." "Hout, neighbour," said Mrs.
Philcox's nursemaid, upon her confessing that she had spent an evening at one with her young man, had been called a shameless hussy, and summarily dismissed as being no longer a fit associate for the baby.
Some of the other ladies objected to this the picture was a big pink hussy lying down beside the ocean but Henrietta says art for art's sake is pure to them that are pure, or something, and they're doing such things constantly in the East; and I'm darned if Spud didn't have his oil painting down and the mosquito netting ripped off it before Alonzo heard about it and put the Not-at-All on it.
Sister Anne said the town-house was even more dismal than the country-house, for there was pure air at the Hall, and it was pleasanter to look out on a park than on a churchyard, however fine the monuments might be. But the widow said she was a light-minded hussy, and persisted as usual in her lamentations and mourning.
"She's a hussy," said Marie. I don't know whether you would call that a bull or a bear movement on the Diston stock, but it went up I could see that. A week later Miles was able to come down to our house for dinner, and my wife asked Marie to come also. I met her at the depot, and after she was safe in the buggy, I told her that Miles was up at the house.
I'm glad it turned out so. Now it's over I can see that I shouldn't have had a happy hour with her, and that with such an ugly, lazy hussy no amount of money would make a man happy. I can't understand what I was thinking of. But I don't want to stay.
As soon as she was recognized the respectable matrons of the party began to whisper among themselves, and the words "hussy" and "public scandal" were uttered so loudly that Boule de Suif raised her head.
Now and then her indifference slightly irritated him. There was something enigmatic in her. When Philip gave her the necklace Athelny in his boisterous way insisted that she must kiss him; but Sally reddened and drew back. "No, I'm not going to," she said. "Ungrateful hussy!" cried Athelny. "Why not?" "I don't like being kissed by men," she said.
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