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It seemed as if the plague gave rise to scandalous acts and frantic tumults, not to mourning and grief; and the greater part of those who, by their education and rank, were called upon to raise the voice of reason, themselves led on the savage mob to murder and to plunder. The humanity and prudence of Clement VI must on this occasion also be mentioned to his honor.
Oakham deeply. Divorces had come his way in plenty, though he remembered the day when they were considered scandalous in good families. But the modern generation had changed all that, and Mr.
When he took leave of the lords, and other gentlemen that stood near him, he entreated the Lord Arundel to prevail with the King that no scandalous writings to defame him, should be published after his death; concluding, "I have a long journey to go, and therefore will take my leave."
Oh, you needn't look so surprised! I know what you're up to, if I do stay home here! You were saucy on that occasion, and bold, too! Calling to passing automobilists to come and dance with you! It was scandalous!" "Why, Miss Sniffen," Polly's tone was gently explanatory, "you can't have heard it straight! We didn't do a single thing out of the way! And I didn't call anybody! Mr.
Almost scandalous private immorality, I submit, should not bar the literary worker from his pay any more than it justifies our stealing his boots. We must deal with immorality as immorality, and with work as work. Above all, at the present time, we must keep clearly in view that popularity has no relation to literary, philosophic or scientific value, it neither justifies nor condemns.
Bulstrode has been guilty of shameful acts, but I call upon him either publicly to deny and confute the scandalous statements made against him by a man now dead, and who died in his house the statement that he was for many years engaged in nefarious practices, and that he won his fortune by dishonest procedures or else to withdraw from positions which could only have been allowed him as a gentleman among gentlemen."
"But boys, an' men-folks ginerally, air scandalous easy ter break a promise whar whiskey is in it." "I'll hev ye ter know that when I gin my word, I keeps it!" cried Rick pridefully. He little dreamed how that promise was to be assailed before the sun should go down.
"Well, you claim to renounce your husband," Delancy argued angrily, "and yet you continue to live with him in the same house. It's a monstrous state of affairs. Will you tell me, please, madam, when this scandalous situation is to end?" "Would you have me desert Charles in a crisis?" Cicily demanded, haughtily.
The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations, I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle, however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his style that drove him to desperation. What! he Touch-and-go Bullet-head! not able to write a word without an O in it!
Then, after a somewhat earlier dinner than usual, Master Joseph ordered his young horse, Sweetbriar, saddled; and after kissing his wife "in a scandalous manner" that is, out of doors, where some one might have seen him do it he mounted, and cantered off down the lane.
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