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I cannot go and thank him publicly in the name of the town. That would be still more unbecoming; and I am sure I hope they will not do all the dreadful things in the church that you speak of. I love the old monuments, and like lolling much better than bare forms."
The pathetic aspect of the case has not, however, we are sorry to say, struck the American press, which has too often treated with unbecoming levity this unaccountable exhibition of English sensitiveness.
Go you before the Grand Jury, and if you meet with any obstruction or difficulty I will see that the Attorney-General affords you every facility." This was, beyond doubt, very unbecoming language to be used by a Judge under such circumstances.
He would not have shaken hands with Mr Robarts, intending to indicate that he did not presume to do so while the present accusation was hanging over him, had not the action been forced upon him. And then there was something of a protest in his manner, as though remonstrating against a thing that was unbecoming to him.
His natural courage, and the Greek nobility of pride, enabled him to vanquish all unbecoming apprehension, and, in the judgment-court, to face his awful lot with a steady mien and unquailing eye. But the consciousness of innocence scarcely sufficed to support him when the gaze of men no longer excited his haughty valor, and he was left to loneliness and silence.
The assembly also desire our gracious lords, when troublesome persons stray into their city or canton, and act in an unbecoming way, striving to seduce the young men, that they will drive them off by authority, to prevent greater disturbance, which might arise from their overbearing dispositions." Meila replied in a similar strain; and Mænedorf likewise.
If secrecy is necessary, withdraw from the company. Never sit with your back to another without asking to be excused. It is as unbecoming for a gentleman to sit with legs crossed as it is for a lady. Never thrum with your fingers, rub your hands, yawn or sigh aloud in company.
The only legal restriction was that they should not be offered for sale at the time of the conscription, and that they should at no time be sold publicly by auction, because such a custom was considered as "unbecoming in a European State."
The colonel made a proper answer to this compliment, and they soon entered into a familiar conversation together; for the doctor was not difficult of access; indeed, he held the strange reserve which is usually practised in this nation between people who are in any degree strangers to each other to be very unbecoming the Christian character.
"Brother, if Jove to thee a present make, Take heed that from his hands thou nothing take." We ask the whole. Nothing less will content us. We arraign society, if it do not give us besides earth, and fire, and water, opportunity, love, reverence, and objects of veneration. He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.
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