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He speaks of the Saint as a "depraved quack," and says that the time he spent with him was worse than wasted. If Saint-Simon was the rogue and pretender that Comte avers, it is no certificate of Comte's insight that it took him four years to find it out. In Eighteen Hundred Twenty-five Comte married.
I saw a chance of making money elsewhere, and I wanted a start, and I turned rogue for the sake of it. Polly, Polly. I'll pay every penny with a three per cent, interest compound, mind you compound and I shall be a rich man still! 'Pol, you're hard. I don't know where you get it from. But, mind you!
For the sake of the princess, the fox let himself be softened, and he lived in the castle for many years, and played with Count Piro's children. And when he actually did die, his coffin was made of silver, and Count Piro and his wife followed him to the grave. The Rogue And The Herdsman
These are the communicative and shining pedants, who adorn their conversation, even with women, by happy quotations of Greek and Latin; and who have contracted such a familiarity with the Greek and Roman authors, that they, call them by certain names or epithets denoting intimacy. As OLD Homer; that SLY ROGUE Horace; MARO, instead of Virgil; and Naso, Instead of Ovid.
"True!" said Mauleverer; "a religious rogue would have had some bowels for the state of the church esurient." "Is it really true, Mauleverer," asked the Earl of , "that Brandon is to succeed?" "So I hear," said Mauleverer. "Heavens, how hungry I am!" A groan from the bishop echoed the complaint. "I suppose it would be against all decorum to sit down to dinner without him?" said Lord .
"Hush, hush, hush!" said the baronet; "he was a great rogue to be sure: but, poor fellow, he came to me yesterday with tears in his eyes, and said he should starve if I would not give him a character; so what could I do?" "At least, tell Lord St. George the truth," observed Clarence. "But then Lord St. George would not take him!" rejoined the good-hearted Sir Christopher, with forcible naivete.
She did what Rose bid her; she promised not to go to Frejus without leave. Finding her so submissive all of a sudden, he went on to suggest that she must not go kissing every child she saw. "Edouard tells me he saw you kissing a beggar's brat. The young rogue was going to quiz you about it at the dinner-table; luckily, he told me his intention, and I would not let him.
"You are a rogue, my man, an impudent and a black-hearted rogue and vagabond. I have passed an hour with you. Oh! believe me, I feel myself disgraced! And you have eaten and drank at my table. But now I am sick at your presence; the day has come, and the night-bird should be off to his roost. Will you go before, or after?" "Which you please," returned the poet, rising.
Many a rogue has come before the Court, and passed through it since then: and I would lay a wager that Howard Walker was not a bit worse than his neighbours.
Do you know that you are an insolent rogue even to venture to look on Sabine de Mussidan? How dare you! Perhaps you thought that if you compromised her, we should be forced to submit to this ignoble alliance." "On my honor, madame, I assure you " "On your honor! To hear you speak, one would suppose that you were a gentleman.
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