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She wanted desperately to hurt him, as he had hurt her, even though she had to behave badly to do it. "Will you tell me what else there was to do? Where could I have taken her at that time of night? Are reputable hotels open at midnight to lone women, wet and ragged, who come without baggage either alone or escorted by a man?" "I'm not telling you what you ought to have done, Mr.
For, though a stanch good Christian, after the manner of those times, yet she had not the slightest mind to see her grand-daughter a nun; on the contrary, she was working day and night to add to her dowry, and had in her eye a reputable middle-aged blacksmith, who was a man of substance and prudence, to be the husband and keeper of her precious treasure.
We know that hockey and football were played in Elizabethan England, and that the corporation of Stratford kept a bowling-alley at the municipality's expense for the free use of the town. Cock-fights were among the less reputable sports of the time, and bears or bulls were baited.
Before I conclude, I must tell you, that the most reputable shop-keepers and tradesmen of Paris think it no disgrace to practise the most shameful imposition.
But Major Bugbee, to whom the cobbler's wife had been remotely akin, and who was at that time first selectman of the town, took the orphans with him to his house, where they tarried till he found good places for them. Roxana, the elder girl, went to live with a reputable farmer's wife, whose only son she afterwards married.
Can't you see that?" "No. What are they after?" "Sensation." Banneker turned the word over in his mind, evoking confirmation in the remembered headlines even of the reputable Ledger. "Sensation," repeated the other. "We've got the speed-up motto in industry.
"This cannot be," she at length murmured "it can never be! Our Ruth must still remember the lessons taught her in infancy. She knoweth she is born of Christian lineage! of reputable name! of exalted hope! of glorious promise!" "Thou seest by the manner of Whittal, who is of greater age, how little of that taught, can withstand the wily savage."
I " here Dr. Guide's face broke into a confidential smile, "I want to go to confession myself, for the first time in my life, if you will allow the cobbler to be my priest. I want a reputable witness, too." Then the two clergymen, arm in arm, proceeded to Sam Kimper's shop, to the great astonishment of all the villagers who saw them. That night, at the closing meeting of the revival series, Dr.
"I seem to remember," the Collector mused, "reading the words 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' to-day written on the wall behind you. . . . Why, damn me, sir, for aught you or any of them can tell, I intend to marry this girl! Why not? Go and tell them. The reputable plight their troth with a single ring around the woman's finger; but here are four rings around the four ankles, and the bar locked.
He has lived a reputable life, and made the most of the little start I gave him. He has supported his Majesty and my Lord in most trying times. And his Excellency tells me that the coming governor, Eden, will surely reward him with a seat in the Council." I thought of Governor Sharpe's biting words to Grafton. The Governor knew my uncle well, and I was sure he had never sat at his Council.
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