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But although Fanny Crawford had acted perhaps worse than any other girl had acted in the school before, she scorned to run away. She would go openly; she would defy Mrs. Haddo. Mrs. Haddo could not possibly keep a girl of Fanny's age for she would soon be seventeen against her will. Having packed her trunks, Fanny went downstairs. The rest of the upper school were busy at their lessons.
"Ah, well!" sighed Madame du Val-Noble; "in the course of our lives we learn more or less how little men value us. But, my dear, I have never been so cruelly, so deeply, so utterly scorned by brutality as I am by this great skinful of port wine. "When he is tipsy he goes away 'not to be unpleasant, as he tells Adele, and not to be 'under two powers at once, wine and woman.
She lived at ease however in those days ease is exactly the word, though she produced three novels a year. She scorned me when I spoke of difficulty it was the only thing that made her angry. If I hinted that a work of art required a tremendous licking into shape she thought it a pretension and a pose.
In the meantime he will avoid the hospital doors, the pale faces, the cripple, the sweet whiff of chloroform for there, on the most thoughtless, the pains of others are burned home; but he will continue to walk, in a divine self-pity, the aisles of the forgotten graveyard. The length of man's life, which is endless to the brave and busy, is scorned by his ambitious thought.
And something about her called to him, with the calling of the great, mysterious things, a calling that shamed and scorned that spirit of savage recklessness; that swift, relentless lust of power. "What is anything in the world, it seemed to cry, "compared to being true to one's friend; true to one's word; true to one's love?"
Thus far concerning Hard Words, High Notions, and Unprofitable Quotations out of learned languages. I shall now consider such things as are ridiculous, that serve for chimney and market talk, after the sermon be done; and that do cause, more immediately, the preacher to be scorned and undervalued.
Still, he had sworn to write and send the letter, and he should do so. A career, a lifetime, was not to be at the mercy of a bilious attack, surely! Such a notion offended logic and proportion, and he scorned it away. The meal proceeded in silence.
I have been here, as agent for Sir Duncan Yordas, to follow up the long-lost clew to his son, and only child, who for very many years was believed to be out of all human pursuit. My sanguine and penetrating mind scorned rumors, and went in for certainty.
Pichegru it is true, lived near London, but saw little of the émigrés, except the venerable Condé. Dumouriez also was in the great city, but his name was too generally scorned in France for his treachery in 1793 to warrant his being used.
Her fine hair, no longer fastened by the diamond pins, had fallen down, and was now floating around her form like a black veil, and closely covered her purple dress. Thus she looked like a goddess of vengeance, so beautiful, so proud, so glorious and terrible her small hands raised toward heaven, and her feet crushing the jewelry. "Insulted, scorned!" she murmured.
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