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"He cocked his hat, clapped his hand to his sword, asked which of the gentleman was it that was maligning his family? so that I was obliged to entreat him not to make such a noise, lest he should wake my friend, Mr. George Selwyn. And I added, 'I assure you, sir, I had no idea that you were near me, and most sincerely apologise for giving you pain.
"Let me tell you, Mr. Keith has never said a word against you to me and that is much more than I can say for you; so you need not be maligning him now." A faint flush stole into Wickersham's face. "You appear to be championing his cause very warmly." "Because he is a friend of mine and an honorable gentleman." He gave a hard, bitter laugh. "Women are innocent!"
When I was dictator, when as yet in the possession of full vigour, and engaged in a series of affairs of the utmost magnitude, no one heard me, either in the senate or in the popular assembly, express any reluctance to have the command equally shared between myself and the master of the horse, at the time when he was maligning me; a proposition which no one ever heard mention of before.
Commander Moreo was unwearied in blackening the duke's character, and in maligning his every motive and action, and greedily did the king incline his ear to the calumnies steadily instilled by the chivalrous spy. "He has caused all the evil we are suffering," said Moreo.
"If you refuse to listen to reason, you may think what you like. I love that man you've been maligning!" she cried, her eyes filling with angry tears. "You love him? Are you brazen enough to stand there and say that to my face?" he shouted, losing his self-control. "Him! You! I've a mind Why, you silly little sentimental fool. You go so far as to flaunt " "Mr.
How can you think so meanly of the people with whom you associate intimately?" "I assure you I am not maligning 'our set, only refer to a universal tendency of this advancing age. I merely strip the outside rind, and look at the kernel, and therefore I 'see the better, my dear, horrified little rustic Red Ridinghood!
This naturally excited the wrath of the Viscount and others. The Seigneur d'Auberlieu, in a letter written in what the writer himself called the "gross style of a gendarme," charged the Prior with maligning honorable lords and in the favorite colloquial phrase of the day with attempting "to throw the cat against their legs."
Claudia remained sitting in her chair, with her face as pale as death, her teeth firmly set, and her eyes fiercely fixed upon the face of the man who was thus maligning her honor. He continued: "How well my suspicions were founded, and how faithfully old Cuthbert has performed his duty, you will soon see.
"So do I. That's why I'm doing all in my power to improve the conditions for making more and more people of the sort one likes to talk to and dine with." "Why, I thought you sympathised with the lower classes." "Not a bit of it. Who has been maligning me to you? I abhor the lower classes so much so that I wish to see them abolished." "Well, you'll have to blame Marian for misleading me."
You maligning villain!" "Oh, 'twasn't what he said, my dear; 'twas his manner whenever he mentioned you. When a man like him handles a woman's name so delicate-like, as if 'twas glass and might break so grave-like, as if she was a sacred subject it means she's put herself on his generosity." Margaret affected a derisive laugh, as at her brother's pretensions to wisdom.
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