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As the door closed Aleck sprang off the bed on to his feet, his knuckles smarting as he struck an attitude and tightly clenched his fists, seeing in imagination Big Jem the slanderer standing before him once again.
"But, first of all, what did you do during the three days that you left your conjugal and Philemonic home? I must know all about it, before I tell you more." "Will you have some olives?" said Rose-Pompon, as she nibbled one of them herself. "Is that your answer? I understand! Unfortunate Philemon!" "There is no unfortunate Philemon in the case, slanderer.
What, he reflected, if it were alleged that 'Lige had returned again after the loafers had gone, or had never left the store as had been said? Nonsense! There was John Milton, who had been there reading all the time, and who could disprove it. Yes, but John Milton was his discarded son, his enemy, perhaps even his very slanderer!
We should like to see if any Irishman, not wholly recreant to the interests and welfare of the Green Island of his birth, will in consequence of this publication give his vote to the slanderer of Ireland's best and noblest champion. But who is Daniel O'Connell?
As it was he was nearly disarmed, and was subjected for several minutes to a series of onslaughts, which called on all his activity and the whole strength of his wrist. "Hound! hog! soul of muck! canaille! adventurer! cheat!" Such epithets came thick and fast with the strokes of de Léry, and were answered by "Slanderer! reptile! traitor! liar!" from the set lips of Lecour.
Matthews sallied out directly her meal was concluded, and openly and bitterly denounced Dr. Selmser as a pulpit slanderer? She did nothing of the sort. She chose her time and place and persons with skill and tact, and said, "Didn't they think, just among themselves, not intending to breathe it outside for the world, that Dr. Selmser was getting a little unpopular among the young people?
Hunt that she had seen me take a gross and indecent liberty with the young lady, the falsehood struck my wife so forcibly, that the object of it was very visible even to her jaundiced eye, and without ceremony she ordered her carriage, and packed the slanderer off to her own home, very properly forbidding her ever entering her door again.
The resemblance of most of Maria Theresa's children to that poet was coupled with the great patronage he received from the Empress; and much less than these circumstances would have been quite enough to furnish a tale for the slanderer, injurious to the reputation of any exalted personage.
Their character demonstrates, to a certainty, that they would not have allowed the existence of such a letter, though fully conscious of it, and would have suffered Mr. Hunt to the end of time to be considered, what they called him, a liar, a Scoundrel, and a slanderer.
Why isn't she here? 'She is afraid to approach you, sir, said the doctor; 'you have a very bad opinion of her. 'A bad opinion, Mr. Keller repeated, 'of a woman I don't know? Who is the slanderer who has said that of me? The doctor signed to Mr. Engelman to answer. 'Speak plainly, he whispered, behind the chair. Mr. Engelman did speak plainly.
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