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A Senior in Miss North's school stood for something was supposed to stand for all that was honorable, above board. She was trusted, looked up to privileged. Anything that touched her honor touched the school, lowered the standard of the class. A Senior stood as an example a pattern for juniors and younger girls, and she ... well, she had blundered terribly!

It has been said with truth that the man who did not belong to the privileged orders had scarcely any more influence upon the laws which bound him and which ground him than if he lived in Mars or Saturn instead of in Picardy or Franche Comté.

But," smacking his lips, "a rustic Amaryllis, breathing all May-buds and Meadowsweet." "Have her out, Peggy!" shouted Cibber. "I know the run there's the covert! Hark, forward! Ha, ha, ha!" Mr. Vane rose, and, with a sternness that brought the old beau up with a run, he said: "Mr. Cibber, age and infirmity are privileged; but for you, Sir Charles " "Don't be angry," interposed Mrs.

Western man has spent ten centuries in building a civilization aimed at economic stability and social security for the privileged. The "new barbarian" progeny have rejected this civilization of affluence and are busily engaged in fragmenting the social apparatus that has made affluence possible.

Crailey had been so long in the habit of following every impulse, no matter how mad, that he enjoyed an almost perfect immunity from condemnation, and, whatever his deeds, Rouen had learned to say, with a chuckle, that it was "only Crailey Gray again." But his followers were not so privileged. Thus, when Mr.

There was a fund of dry and suggestive humour about her, which, although it would no more bear being written down than champagne will bear standing in a tumbler, was very pleasant to listen to, more especially as John soon discovered that he was the only person so privileged. Her friends and relations had never suspected that Jess was humorous.

"Why should he be so anxious to know the time at which a borrower of money is usually privileged to pay the money back?" "Is it possible that you don't see his motive, Mr. Bruff?" "I am ashamed of my stupidity, Mr. Murthwaite but I certainly don't see it." The great traveller became quite interested in sounding the immense vacuity of my dulness to its lowest depths.

It was hateful to think she really had a right to call herself his wife, and was therefore legally privileged to tell him unpleasant truths. Sabina always connected that with matrimony, remembering how her father and mother used to quarrel when he was alive, and how her brother and sister-in-law continued the tradition.

In the court-room by 9:30 o'clock the three hundred privileged ones who had obtained tickets of admission had taken their seats, and every seat was taken excepting the four on the jury gallery reserved for the prisoners and their jail attendants. There were not more than twenty women among the spectators.

But there you are! Explain it as you may, in this world the friendless, like the poor, are always a little suspect, as if honesty and delicacy were only possible to the privileged few. "If you mean what right I have . . . " She move slightly a hand in a worn brown glove as much as to say she could not question anyone's right against such an outcast as herself.