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On being charged by the Parson he rushed through the roads crying that the enemy of the Big Man had put unbecoming words on a harlot's tongue. Capel Dissenters believed him. "He could not act wrongly with a sheep," some said. So Ben tasted the sapidness and relish of power, and his desires increased. "Mortgage Deinol, my father bach," he said to Abel. "Going am I to London. Heavy shall I be there.
As he turned now to look at her long, plain face in the light of what had been going on in himself lately, he recalled that the determining influence which had drawn her thick hair into that unbecoming knot at the back of her neck had been the pain it had given her when she first began to put up her hair, to do it higher.
Her voice took on a tone of tender reminiscence, and a little color crept into the wrinkled pallor of her cheeks, and she perked her head a bit coquettishly, in a youthful manner not unbecoming, as she continued: "I remember how happy oh, how happy! I was then!" Cicily, however, displayed a rather shocking lack of sympathy for this emotion on the part of her relative.
Hardy, who was in an evil temper, pitched it on to the floor and, with a few incisive remarks on levity unbecoming to age, pursued his duties in gloomy silence. A short time afterwards, however, he had to grapple with his partner's work in real earnest. For the first time in his life the genial shipbroker was laid up with a rather serious illness.
At the gate he came suddenly upon Leonard, who had been dodging about there and failed to get out of the way in time. "Do not be brutal, Mr. Willems," said Leonard, hurriedly. "It is unbecoming between white men with all those natives looking on." Leonard's legs trembled very much, and his voice wavered between high and low tones without any attempt at control on his part.
We frivolous people are a good deal cleverer than you think." The languid arrogance of the lady's manner was not at all unbecoming. Darrell made an inclination. "No need to remind me, madam!" A recent exhibition at an artistic club of Mrs. Alcot's sketches had made a considerable mark. "Very soon you will leave us poor professionals no room to live."
"He's a friend of yours, and you recommend him high enough, but we hain't been introduced, and to take any step beforehand on my side would be unbecoming of a lady, and that's what I am." "Yes of course, and you know best," said Henley, as he clucked to his horse, "but Long will be powerfully disappointed. He's got sort of keyed up over this thing, and it has gone and unsettled him.
Dowson" she spoke laughingly "what were you about not to seize such a prize before an outsider sailed in and captured it?" Leonard's pallor gave way to an unbecoming brick-red flush, and his voice shook as he replied: "I ... I wasn't lucky, you see. I I would have given my life for that girl, Mrs. Herrick, and she she wouldn't have me at any price."
The place where he stopped to pray is shown to this day. These sentiments of humility should abash those Christians who crowd round our altars in unbecoming postures, and particularly those worldly women who, in immodest postures and in an air of vanity, approach contemptuously the sanctuary in which the Sacred Body of Jesus reposes.
But some years before the reign of the American Czar, Gladstone, Premier of England, said, "I would rather be right and believe in the Bible, than excite a body of curious, infidelic, so-called scientists to unbecoming wonder by tracing their ancestry to a troglodyte." And Huxley replied, "I, too, would rather be right I would rather be right than Premier." Charles Darwin was a Gentle Man.
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