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Am I bound to tell him she's a madman's child? Is there any chance of its affecting her? Is the taint hereditary?" She spoke with deep earnestness. She rushed out with it without reserve. Yate-Westbury gazed at her compassionately. He was a kind- hearted man. "No; certainly not," he answered, with emphasis. "Not the very slightest reason in any way to fear it.
For a time she might accept misery as her inalienable lot, but her youthful years, fed with the new philosophy, must in the end rebel. Could she live with such a man without sooner or later taking a taint of his ignobleness? His path was downwards, and how could she hope to keep her own course in independence of him? It shamed her that she had ever loved him.
'Taint but t'other day you was kissin' Miss Dolly on de plantation." "It seems longer than that to me, Aunt Lucy," I answered, laughing at Dolly's blushes. "You have too good a memory, mammy," said my lady, withdrawing her fingers from mine. "Bress you, honey! De ole woman doan't forgit some things." And she fell back to a respectful six paces. "Those were happy times," said Dorothy.
The only period in which it is less seasonable than at any other, appears to be in hot weather, when animal substances of all kinds are very liable to taint. The profuse supply of vegetables too in the warmer months, seems to lessen the occasion for animal food.
I've got some of my sense back, and I mean to write Judd that I am engaged to a girl in the city not that I want his friendship after what has happened, however and I will be down here again, for a few days at least, when the atmosphere has cleared perhaps early this winter." "Taint likely yo'll ever see me ergin on earth, son," Jerry said heavily. "Reckon I'm most done fer." "Your heart?
But your treachery has destroyed my hope and smirched the memory of your brothers, whose names are written on the roll of martyrs to their Faith and country. Ah, Pascal, how I loved you! And your son? An English Deschamps you say! A son born to perpetuate his father's degradation! No, Pascal, I shall save my honor! Your traitor blood shall never taint posterity.
But this was not reason to a spirit writhing in the serpent-coil of fiery blushes. Vittoria said, "I shall pity him so." She meant she would pity Wilfrid in deluding him. It was a taint of the hypocrisy which comes with shame. The signora retorted: "I can't follow the action of your mind a bit."
Here, there was the taint of deepest sin in the most sacred quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman's beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne.
Must that be obliterated? Must national character be sterilized of all taint of its peculiar beauty? Must Ireland have no character of its own but be servilely imitative of its neighbor in all things and be nothing of itself? It is objected that the study of Irish history, Irish literature and the national culture generates hostility to the Empire. Is that a true psychological analysis?
"Do you think we shall see any more of the Indians, Joses?" said Bart at last. "What, Old Arrow in the arm!" "Yes." "Sure to," said Joses. "He's a good fellow that is. 'Taint an Indian's natur to show he's fond of you, but that chap would fight for the master to the last." "It seemed like it the other day, but it was very strange that he should go off as he did." "Not it, my lad.
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