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The colour sank back out of her face, and the light from the window rested on it ethereally. The beautiful mystery drew her eyes to seek, and their blue seemed to deepen and dilate, as if the old splendour of the uplifted golden gates rewarded them. "Why do you use that odious word?" Alicia explained. "You are not my maid! Don't do it again don't dream of doing it again!" "I I don't know."
Whither? that is your concern; only, for the next few days they must be out of reach." "Good!" said the Egyptian, and an odious smile overspread his thin brown face. "They may go as galley-slaves and row themselves to the Sardinian mines. A good idea!" "I have even better ideas than that to serve a friend," replied Serapion. "Only get the philosopher out of the way.
I rage in proportion as the minutes separate me from this odious thing that closes its iron fingers around the necks of my friends. No! It is not to be borne. Let every man, woman and child on the earth rise up until we have right. Do I not know? Have I not experienced the mailed fist? And yet, how little in comparison to others; but it is enough.
The notion of its fetters and burdens was no less odious to him now than it had been at twenty. What did he want with a wife still more, with a son? The thought of his own life continued in another's filled him with a shock of repulsion. Where was the sense of infusing into another being the black drop of discontent that poisoned his own? A daughter perhaps with the eyes of his mad sister Alice?
But her violation of temples, and even of ancient tombs, for the sake of treasure must have been a far more public and odious exhibition of that want of respect for the sentiment of others which is the essence of bad manners.
He also asserts that the troops on our part of the line had been defeated and were at the turnpike at the base of the mountain in retreat when he went forward. Nothing is more justly odious in military conduct than embodying slanders against other commands in an official report.
We are not like the Churchills the Judases, who kiss their master and betray him. "Let the tyrant of Orange bring his rack and his odious Dutch tortures the beast! the wretch! I spit upon him and defy him.
You regard me oh, I know as well as you do that it is a shameful and odious role that I impose upon her that she is compelled to play a part in which she will lose a young girl's most precious possession her reputation." Maurice did not wince. "So be it," he said, calmly.
His career as it has now been fully exhibited could have but one termination. He had made himself thoroughly odious to the nation whom he came to govern. He had lost for ever the authority once spontaneously bestowed; and he had attempted in vain, both by fair means and foul, to recover that power. There was nothing left him but retreat. Of this he was thoroughly convinced.
To rivet the attention of friends on bride and bridegroom is to offend against the most delicate susceptibilities of modesty. From all such hateful practices, Herminia's pure mind revolted by instinct. She felt that here at least was the one moment in a woman's history when she would shrink with timid reserve from every eye save one man's, when publicity of any sort was most odious and horrible.
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