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For a fortnight he had not been abroad, and the rumour ran that he was unwell, that he was `not so strong as he ought to be. And now Maggie suddenly charged him with a whole series of misdoings!
How much more wholesome would our newspapers be, if they published the good deeds of men and women rather than their misdoings. Why should not as much space be given to the man who saves a life, as is given to the man who takes a life? Why not let us hear more of the boy who went right, rather than of the one who went wrong?
And so Jack Curtiss, Bill Bender and Hank Handcraft vanish for a time from the ken of the Boy Scouts, leaving behind them no regrets, except it be those of their parents who were for many months bowed down with the grief and humiliation of their boys' misdoings. "Ta-ra-ta-ra-ta! Ta-ra-ta-ra-ta! Ta-ra-ta-rata! Ta-ra-ta-a-a!"
We caught the rogues, and they were all tried; but the poor deluded labourers were let off with a short imprisonment. The village genius, thank Heaven, is sent packing to Botany Bay." LEONARD. "But did his books teach him to burn ricks and smash machines?" PARSON. "No; he said quite the contrary, and declared that he had no hand in those misdoings."
You will stay in this room, and he must be left in the other where I shall receive you, but take care he has no suspicion of your presence." "He shan't dream of it. He will not even know where I am taking him, for he must not think that I have been informed of his misdoings. As soon as we be there, and the conversation becomes general, I shall leave the room, pretending to be going away."
"Do you suppose he'll survive, Shad? I'll bet a cookie it's a hundred and six inside there." "Do him good," retorted Shad. "Probably it's the only chance he's ever had to meditate on his misdoings. Don't you fret about him. He's just as husky as I be, and twice as hefty. It was all I could do to ketch a good holt on him." "Oh, Shad," exclaimed Kit. "I didn't want you to touch him, you know."
"I'm sure she is always in regulation veils, and all the rest of it, at Church, if that's what you ladies want." "But the crown of the misdoings seemed to be that she had been met at some old castle, sacred to picnics, alone with her children -no party nor anything.
In fact, the idea of God which was presented to the youth of that period and brought up under such influences was I do not say wilfully that of a kind of super-policeman: a hard-hearted policeman, with an exaggerated code of misdoings, forever waiting round a corner to pounce on evil-doers, and, one was obliged to think, apparently almost pleased at the opportunity of catching them.
Yet these, when you name them, are so absurd, that one could almost laugh at them. The conviction that you have hitherto been on the wrong side is the one thing that ought to force you now to the right side. Why should you perpetuate blunders, follies, and misdoings? Why should the evil past chain you? Let the dead bury its dead forget the things which are behind.
She questioned her husband concerning the convict's misdoings, but with the petulant brutality which he invariably displayed when the name of Rufus Dawes intruded itself into their conversation, Maurice Frere harshly refused to satisfy her. This but raised her curiosity higher.
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