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"Because you must know," said his wife, in an energetic whisper, "that Hugh had almost certainly proposed to Miss Mallory before we arrived, and she had refused him!" The doctor meditated. "I still say that Hugh enjoyed his walk," he repeated; "I trust he will have others of the same kind with the same person." "Henry, you are really incorrigible!" cried his wife.
"Oh, yes we did," grunted the smaller girl. "That is, we kissed. Lil was already made up." "Now, Bobby!" admonished Laura. "That's horrid of you, Bobby," Nellie declared. "You are incorrigible." Yet they all had to laugh. Bobby Hargrew was just a cut-up! "I'm worse than the long word you called me, Nell," said little Miss Hargrew.
He always was and he always will be. He's out shooting, now, with papa; and you'll never get him to settle down to anything, as long as there's a snipe or a plover banging about on the moor anywhere. He's quite incorrigible. Do you play at all? Won't you take a cue till your lunch's ready? 'No, I don't play, Ernest answered, half hesitating, 'or at least very little.
I assure you that if you underestimate the power of the millions of thirsty mouths that speak through us, you will rue the consequences. Trouble is brewing " "Neither trouble, nor anything else, is brewing nowadays," said the terrible Bishop. Theodolinda saw that Quimbleton was losing ground by his incorrigible habit of talking before he said anything.
It was from this overseer class that the vituperations and slanders went forth that soon became stereotyped, concerning the Negro's incorrigible laziness and want of ambition those gentry adjusting the scale of wages, not according to the importance and value of the labour done, but according to the scornful estimate which they had formed of the Negro personally.
You see," he confided, "I like you all so well that I plan to delay action for six months or a year, unless, of course, you are anxious for an excuse to leave the ranch sooner. If you really want to go as soon as possible, of course I'll get busy and cook Señor Parker's goose, but " "You're incorrigible!" the lady declared. "Procrastinate, by all means.
Always an incorrigible flatterer, when Napoleon proclaimed himself Ali the Mussulman, De Menou professed himself Abdallah the believer in the Alcoran. The late vice-president of the Italian Republic, Melzi-Eril, is now in complete disgrace with his Sovereign, Napoleon the First.
He can decide to lead an honest life and have his liberty, or he can elect to work for the State all his life in criminal confinement. When I say that every State prison is to be a reformatory, I except, of course, from its operation, those sentenced for life for murder, or other capital offenses, and those who have proved themselves incorrigible by repeated violations of their parole.
Yesterday he had been, because of an unsatisfactory morning's work in Chelsea, in the very depths, honestly despising himself as an artist, sincerely loathing his incorrigible love of amusement and consequent wasting of time. So this sunny, rather windy morning, Brigit by his side, and his newly awakened conscience stilled for the moment, was to him as near Paradise as anything he could imagine.
"Thou insolent brat! To be eighteen years of age and think thyself irresistible!" "Does your Majesty suppose I shall be more attractive at six and thirty?" "Yes, villain; for at my age thou wilt have experience." "And a reputation for incorrigible vice. No woman of taste can resist that." "And pray who is Mrs. Kirkland's lover?" "A Puritan baronet. One Denzil Warner."
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