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But you see the present incumbent bought the place; the purchase of advowsons is a scandal, in my opinion however this man got it all his own way, more's the pity! he bought it through some friend or other and so "
Constance!" again dropping his tone of mockery, "you know that you may trust me better than that." "But, Hamish, how do you spend your time, that you cannot complete your books in the day?" "Oh," drawled Hamish, "ours is the laziest office! gossiping and scandal going on in it from morning till night. In the fatigue induced by that, I am not sure that I don't take a nap, sometimes."
M. de Leon also had several children by this creature, and spent large sums upon her. When he went in place of his father to open the States of Brittany, she accompanied him in a coach and six horses, with a ridiculous scandal. His father was in agony lest he should marry her.
Then the abbe folded his arms across his large stomach and, as if filled with amazement, said: "Is it you you you, Sabot who have come to ask me for this... You the only irreligious man in my parish! Why, it would be a scandal, a public scandal! The archbishop would give me a reprimand, perhaps transfer me."
Scandal whispers, that the managers of the opera are rather partial to expensive pieces; but as they are accountable for their conduct to the Minister of the Interior, I should presume that they must act as honourable men. The salaries are not considerable at this theatre.
"No," she said, "you need fear no scandal. There will be nothing in any way harmful to your prospects." "What can I do?" he said, though more to himself than to her. Her quick ear detected in his voice a note of relief. And yet, he struck in her, standing helplessly smoking in the middle of the floor, chords of pity. "You can do nothing, Howard," she said.
The psychic and devotional side of her lover's nature engrossed her thoughts. She recalled to her mind all that he had taught and explained to her about the views and religion of the tragic Pharaoh, the world's first conscientious objector. Since she had heard of the scandal, she had scarcely thought of the occult and psychic side of the journey.
She wrote me dreadful letters when she heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to Mr.
Those directors who were keeping cool at the edge of the ocean had been summoned by telegraph; those who were steaming across the ocean, by wireless. Up from the equator had drifted the threat of a scandal, sickening, grim, terrible. As yet it burned beneath the surface, giving out only an odor, but an odor as rank as burning rubber itself. At any moment it might break into flame.
And ten rooms were laid with dinner, and all stood open, so that any one might enter under the permission of the Court Marshal. All this I must notice here, because Sidonia afterwards caused much scandal by these means.
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