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Instinctively Lans put his hand out and laid it protectingly on the shoulder beside him. The touch shared the taint, too. "Oh! do not do that," pleaded Cynthia recoiling. "I was only startled because he the man came so suddenly." "But I I only wanted you to know you have nothing to fear with me here." Cynthia made an effort to smile, but it was a sad, little shadowy wraith of a smile.
Near the last was a small stream so strongly impregnated with sulphur, as to taint the air to a great distance around it. We saw two brown bears on the hills in the course of the day. At daylight, on the 11th, we embarked. The hills continued on both sides to the mouth of the river, varying from eight hundred to one thousand feet in height.
It was a terrible blow to her that he was blind, and talk as she might about the faintness of the morning, old Rachel knew the real cause of her distress, and when alone with her, said, by way of comfort, "Law, now, Miss Grace, 'taint worth a while to take on so. Like 'nough he'll be cured mebby it's nothin' but them fetch-ed water- falls CAT-A-RATS, that's it and he can have 'em cut out.
Wild excitement, expectation strung to the highest pitch, and party-feeling, both for and against, had always, of course, been rife here; but to-day they were manifest in an acuter form hatred had added its taint and lent virulence to every emotion.
He fought sometimes, but was always thrashed, pommelled to a jelly. The man was game enough, when his blood was up: but he was no favorite in the mill; he had the taint of school-learning on him, not to a dangerous extent, only a quarter or so in the free-school in fact, but enough to ruin him as a good hand in a fight. For other reasons, too, he was not popular.
Grantly did not again repeat the question aloud, but he did so constantly to himself: What were they to do with Mr. Slope? How was he openly, before the world, to show that he utterly disapproved of and abhorred such a man? Hitherto Barchester had escaped the taint of any extreme rigour of church doctrine.
He opened the way to Tolstoy's rediscovery of the Christian Law, amongst other northern treasures, didn't he? And I, with the Arcadian taint in my veins, saw the way open and went northwards. Now it has come to pass that I remember my own people as Moses did, and use the wisdom of Oxford as he used the wisdom of Egypt, to help one's own people towards a promised land.
And it all come over me that you ought to know about it. You’re married of course, and can’t help it now, but ’taint every girl that has a boy care for her like that from the time she’s a baby with a red hood on, and you ought to know ’bout it, fer it wasn’t Hanford’s fault he didn’t have time to tell you.
The taint of black blood was the unpardonable sin, from the unmerited penalty of which there was no escape except by concealment.
Come down to make a little visit and bring Miss Plimpkins a nice present ag'in, I guess. He is mighty grateful to her for taking such good care of him while he was sick. A uncommon handsome man. But 'taint a bit likely he'll think of a baby like you. He is a man old enough to know better near forty, likely. He was monstrous polite to me; always finding the hymns, and passing his book to me.
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