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In his heart he was always in sympathy with the woodsmen, and when they were proclaimed as perilous to the peace and prosperity of the king's empire, he stood stoutly by them. Adventurers, they traded as they listed; and when the Intendant Duchesnau could not bend them to his greedy will, they were to be caught and hanged wherever found.
And then suddenly it flashed upon me that some day she would for certain meet the real Sir Aubrey Belston again, and what would happen then when she referred to this meeting in the train and he stoutly denied as of course he would meeting her at all? What mischief might I not unwittingly be doing? What havoc might I not be creating?
Miss Hetty made haste to declare that in her two months and more of attendance upon the invalid she had never dreamed of such a thing. The servants stoutly denied all knowledge of it, except Charles, who could not get out of having cut the door through into the other room. It was believed that Hesden had himself taken all the care of the injured man, whose condition was not at all understood.
Indeed, so faithful was the replica, that a member of the Academy of Sciences, Paris, stoutly maintained that it was due to ventriloquism or some other trickery. It was evident, however, that before the phonograph could become a practical instrument, further improvements in the nicety of its articulation were required. The introduction of the electric light diverted Mr.
She could imagine certain things, chiefly what men and women would like, in order to make them comfortable, but she had no appetite for the incredible. "Do you suppose Esther would have stolen her aunt's diamonds? Or was it pearls?" "Yes, I do," said Lydia stoutly. "It's just like her." "She might do other things, different kinds of things that are just as bad. But stealing, Lyd! Why, think!
When she suddenly marshalled all the facts she knew of him, she stoutly refused to think of what Nancy Ellen had said; when she reviewed his character and disposition, and thought of him taking charge of the minds of her pupils, Kate suddenly felt she must not allow that to happen, she must not!
A fear may be crowded back into the mind and stoutly denied so long as it is not named. At the good landlord's very natural question "Whaur's Auld Jock?" there was the shape of the little dog's fear that he had lost his master. With a whimpering cry he struggled free. Out of the door he went, like a shot. He tumbled down the steep curve and doubled on his tracks around the market-place.
"You you gave it to him!" The man lifted a hand as if to strike Marian. She did not flinch. There came a growl from the door. Looking quickly, Marian caught the questioning gleam in the old leader's eye. The man's arm fell. "Yes," she said stoutly, "I gave it to him. Why should I not? He offered no real proof that he was the right person, it is true " "Then why "
"You had no business atop of our wall," said the gardener stoutly. "And now look at the mischief you've done." "Tut tut tut tut!" ejaculated the doctor. "Please, sir, I didn't know as he was any one you knew." "No, no, of course not," said the doctor pettishly. "Tut tut tut! Dear me! dear me!" "I say, ain't some one coming to help me down?" said Dexter, in an ill-used tone.
You are quite old enough to know that she had brought misery upon herself, and disgrace upon all connected with her. No one could ever have taken notice of her again." "I would," said the boy, stoutly. Lady Mount Severn smiled derisively. "I would. I never liked anybody in the world half so much as I liked Isabel." "That's past and gone.
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