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But," he added by way of consoling himself, for his avaricious heart was already revolting against this useless expenditure of money; "it's well worth that, it's the very likeness of my 'Daisy. My daughter had the impudence to tell me once that I ought to put it in the wash-house. Alas! young people will always be young people." Struggle as he would, Frank could not refrain from smiling.
Whether this wretch imputed to the child false revelations, or abused his, tender age and his condition to extort from him what admissions soever he pleased, he obtained a revolting deposition; and as the youth of the Prince did not admit of his being brought before the tribunal, Hebert appeared and detailed the infamous particulars which he had himself either dictated or invented.
He detected the jungle smell and its concomitant revolting odors. He led Jill back. "Wait here, by this big tree stump. I'll be able to find you and you're safe enough from the beam." He turned away. Jill said pleadingly, "Please be careful!" "A little while ago," he told her gloomily, "I felt that I had too much useful information to take any chances with my life, let alone yours.
They are now beginning to pay a penny and a half currency per week for their children's instruction." The condition of Antigua, but a very few years previous to emancipation, is represented to have been truly revolting. It has already been stated that the Sabbath was the market day up to 1832, and this is evidence enough that the Lord's day was utterly desecrated by the mass of the population.
"You did it all, sweetest, though you're too stupid to see. Living here was your plan I wanted you; he wanted you; and every one said it was impossible, but you knew. Just think of our lives without you, Meg I and baby with Monica, revolting by theory, he handed about from Dolly to Evie. But you picked up the pieces, and made us a home.
Then suddenly his fingers were boring into her shoulders; she was twisted, helpless in his brutal grasp, and flung bodily into the chair beside the desk, where she sat, sobbing breathlessly. She did not cry out again, but sat motionless, her lips quivering, rubbing her shoulders where his iron fingers had sunk into the flesh, her soul filled with a revolting horror for his brutality.
The calmest, simplest statements of its facts are almost beyond the comprehension of belief of men and women who are mercifully spared from contact with the dark and hideous secrets of the 'under-world' of the big cities. "Naturally, wisely, every parent who reads this statement will at once raise the question: 'What excuse is there for the open discussion of such a revolting condition of things?
I hear my readers exclaim, "Parents deliberately sacrificing their own innocent child to save the life of another man's." But this child was a conscious and willing victim: it is a story of vicarious death as significant as, and not more revolting than, the story of Abraham's intended sacrifice of Isaac.
But the burghers of Liége, like those of Ghent, had a will and a way of their own, and frequently rebelled against the bishops, in support of their rights; and Charles the Bold took the rulers under his protection. Still they persisted in revolting, and Charles destroyed the city, as a punishment, in 1468.
And how can they let them play games of chance? A nice way to bring them up, I must say! It's revolting!" But the children's play is so tempting that he feels an inclination to join them and to try his luck. "Wait a minute and I'll sit down to a game," he says. "Put down a kopeck!" "In a minute," he says, fumbling in his pockets. "I haven't a kopeck, but here is a rouble. I'll stake a rouble."
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