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She's laying for something bigger. She'll get into Mrs. Maginnis for something handsome. More fool if she doesn't, I say"; and Meadows laughed in an unscrupulous, under-breath fashion, as of a man who thought a well-played trick essentially meritorious. Millard was debating. Should he protest against these words? Or should he knock Meadows down? That is not just the form it took in his mind.
Sometimes his readiness to aid meritorious young authors into profitable publicity was shamefully abused, as in the case of Maitland, an Englishman, who deliberately forged an absurdly distorted paraphrase of a note of Mr. Irving's, besides other disreputable use of the signature which he had enticed from him in answer to urgent appeals.
The visitors would be the representatives of the lines of Hsia, Shun, and Yao. word in praise of Fung Zung, and the 'meritorious ancestor' of the first line is not to be got over. Still more clearly than in the case of the former ode does this appear to have been made by some one who had taken part in the service, for in line 4 he addresses the sacrificing king as 'you.
I was myself convinced that no possible harm could come of the experiment. Would the porter help me in so innocent and meritorious an intrigue? The man hesitated. I produced my half-sovereign. The man was lost. And at half-past eight next morning before the heat of the day Raffles and I drove to Kew Gardens in a hired landau which was to call for us at mid-day and wait until we came.
Thus, O thou blessed one, did Bhishma end at Prayaga his highly meritorious journey to the tirthas capable of destroying all sins. The man that ranges the earth in accordance with these injunctions, obtains the highest fruit of a hundred horse-sacrifices and earns salvation hereafter.
But why was she glad, so innocently glad as it seemed to me, as if she had done some meritorious and no evil thing? My young mind was troubled at the question, and there was no answer. Nevertheless, I think that this incident bore fruit later, and taught me to consider whether it might not be better to spare than to kill; better not only for the animal spared, but for the soul.
A cigar from his own private case was with him a mark of supreme favor and good-will, a sort of accolade which he bestowed only upon the really meritorious few.
This put us, you may suppose, upon terms not the most agreeable, I desired to know, if I were prohibited dreaming of you? For, my dear, you have all my sleeping as well as waking hours. But I have nevertheless a much more laudable motive I should think myself the unworthiest of creatures, could I be brought to slight a dear friend, and such a meritorious one, in her distress.
We talked the matter over with a dozen or so, and agreed to do the business. That's all about it, and you may make the most of it, and hand us over to the police as soon as you please." The ruffian spoke in as free and easy a manner as though he had been engaged in some meritorious work, instead of a piece of black villany.
Such merit as there may have been in my exhaustive confession must have lain in what conquering of obstacles I achieved before I came to my knees in Monty's presence, because I was conscious of no meritorious effort then.