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And as he lighted his candle he added to poor Eustace's discomfiture by the shocking utterance under his beard: "You are welcome to him for me, if you can stand such an old bore." When I came downstairs the next morning, I found Lord Erymanth at the hall window, watching the advance of a great waggon of coal which had stuck fast in the snow half way up the hill on which the house stood.
When they saw, issuing from the well, the black slippers and white stockings of the drowned person, they disappeared. "Sapeur seized the ankles of the poor chaste woman, and we drew it up, inclined, as it was, in the most immodest posture. The head was in a shocking state, bruised and black; and the long, gray hair, hanging down, was tangled and disordered.
And he noted, with amusing memories of how much afraid he had once been of shocking his Dorothy's notions of decorum, that she did not repulse him very vigorously. "Here, over a dead body! Oh, Jurgen, this is horrible! Now, Jurgen, remember that somebody may come any minute! And I thought I could trust you! Ah, and is this all the respect you have for me!" This much she said in duty.
And why did they want their mother changed? And what did they want her changed into? It was shocking when you come to think of it! The Professor became suddenly so stern, that if the twins could have seen his expression which, owing to the fading light, they couldn't they would have been too frightened to answer. "Why do you want your mother changed?" demanded the Professor.
Her face was turned seaward, and she stood for a little scanning the broad channel, shading her eyes as if to search for something on the extreme horizon. The air was very quiet and he thought that he could hear her sigh. Then she turned and re-entered the House, while Heritage by his side began to curse under his breathe with a shocking fervour.
'Just wait a bit while I speak to my husband. Though she'd been and done wrong, I couldn't for the life of me help pitying her, for her fierce ways. "Well: I went and told Jemmy all I had got out of her my own baby kicking and crowing in my arms again, as happy as a king, all the time I was speaking. 'It seems shocking, says I, 'to let such as her go into a workhouse.
I'll have to teach him a lesson." It was Jasper Jay that had related the news to his cousin, old Mr. Crow. And now he asked, "What about Grandfather Mole? Don't you think you ought to apologize to him?" That was a strange thing for Jasper Jay to ask. He was the greatest rowdy in the woods, with shocking manners. Mr. Crow gave Jasper a sidewise glance. "Will you apologize for me?" he inquired.
"Then, Cecilia, you will have time enough, for when once they begin performing, as Sylvester calls it, there is no end of it." "Oh Heavens!" cried Cecilia, as she turned over the pages, "Oh Heavens! what is here? Such absolute falsehood! Shocking, shocking!" she exclaimed, as she looked on, terrified at what she saw: "Absolutely false a forgery."
These were devised that they might not abuse the male sex, to which shocking vice they were formerly much addicted. It was also ordained, that the women should not have more than three cubits of cloth in their under garments, which likewise are open before, and so tight, that when they walk they shew the leg bare above the knee.
I tell you no man has a right to trifle with you in this manner, and it is your duty to yourself and all of us to find out the truth. Some young rake may have bribed the black, and be personating him; and some day you may find yourself carried off you know not where." "Harriet, if you only knew either Mr. Belamour or Jumbo, you would know that you are saying things most shocking!"
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