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I will not repeat the foul slanders; suffice it to say, I sustained for one half hour what few men are called upon to endure throughout a lifetime. At last, the newness being gone, they left me in peace, and I, being settled safely in my corner, did set to work to watch the door. Who should enter at that very moment but my Lord Denbeigh!
And every one was surprised at my receiving you, excuse my saying so, as a respectable woman, and hinted to me . . . well, of course, slanders, suppositions. . . . At the bottom of my heart I blamed you, but you were unhappy, flighty, to be pitied, and my heart was wrung with pity for you." "But why, why?" asked Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, trembling all over. "What harm have I done any one?"
This was too much for Ortel, who, concealed behind a heap of sacks, had listened to the discussion, and clasping his hands beseechingly, he now went up to his mother and entreated her to beware of repeating the slanders of evil-minded people who had dared to cast stones at the gracious maidens, who were as pure and innocent as their saint herself. Poor Ortel!
On the other hand, if one man slanders another, with the result that the latter, refuting the slander, thereby attains prominence and position, the act of slander, normally harmful, remains an immoral act. It is a failure to recognize this necessarily general character of our moral judgments that raises the problem of Job. "Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord, that walketh in his ways.
Then followed L.Q.C. Lamar, William C. Dawson, Thaddeus Goode Holt, and many others of less distinction, all of whom are gone save Judge Holt, who remains a monument and a memory of the class and character of the Bar of Georgia fifty years ago, when talent and unspotted integrity characterized its members universally, and when the private lives and public conduct of lawyers were a withering rebuke to the reiterated slanders upon the profession when Crawford, Berrien, Harris, Cobb, Longstreet, the brothers Campbell, and a host of others, shed lustre upon it.
Do not be uneasy, my darling. Thedora is a vindictive woman merely a vindictive woman. We shall yet see better days. Only do you get well, my angel only do you get well, for the love of God, lest you grieve an old man. Also, who told you that I was looking thin? Slanders again nothing but slanders! I am as healthy as could be, and have grown so fat that I am ashamed to be so sleek of paunch.
Cat, now, had not committed murder, but as bad as murder; and as she felt not the smallest repentance in her heart as she had, in the course of her life and connection with the Captain, performed and gloried in a number of wicked coquetries, idlenesses, vanities, lies, fits of anger, slanders, foul abuses, and what not she was fairly bound over to this dark angel whom we have alluded to; and he dealt with her, and aided her, as one of his own children.
Many slanders, they said, had been repeated respecting them; the most unjust of which was, that they indulged in carnal appetites, and, under the cloak of their invisibility, crept into the chambers of beautiful maidens.
Drawing his sword and laying it across the table to put him in proper tune, he took pen in hand and indited a proud and lofty letter to the council of the league, reproaching them with giving ear to the slanders of heathen savages against a Christian, a soldier, and a cavalier; declaring that whoever charged him with the plot in question lied in his throat; to prove which he offered to meet the president of the council, or any of his compeers; or their champion, Captain Alexander Partridge, that mighty man of Rhodes, in single combat; wherein he trusted to vindicate his honor by the prowess of his arm.
Peter has introduced a passage which refers to works, even to their root, that is, what springs from within out of the heart. It is the workhouse where is the forge of deceits and slanders, and other evil speakings; and the tongue is only the outer shop where they are vended, and the lips the door of it. So then such ware as is made within, such and no other can be set out.
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