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He further said that if this Noble were a pure man, and merely misguided, he could bear it, but that he should succeed in his wicked designs through, a base use of money would leave a blot upon his State which would work untold evil to the morals of the people, and that he would not suffer; the public morals must not be contaminated.
Look in again, as you come down-stairs, Kit. That lad a robber! cried Brass when he had withdrawn, 'with that frank and open countenance! I'd trust him with untold gold. Mr Richard, sir, have the goodness to step directly to Wrasp and Co.'s in Broad Street, and inquire if they have had instructions to appear in Carkem and Painter.
"Simlich!" says Imogene, standing at right angles near the piano because she thinks she is a Gibson girl. "Imogene, dearest," Gonsalvo continues; "I called on your papa in Wall Street yesterday to find out how much money you have, but he refused to name the sum, therefore you have untold wealth!" Gonsalvo pauses to let the Parisian clock on the mantle tick, tick, tick!
His whole being shrank under the untold agony of this mother's denial and ultimate appeal. Now he spoke rapidly. The yearning to spare this woman, who had already suffered so much, urged him. To prolong the telling he felt would be cruelty unthinkable. He felt brevity to be the only way to spare her. "He was shot by a tough," he said. "It was at the Elysian Fields.
"Gaut Gurley, you insatiate fiend!" exclaimed Elwood, in a tone of mingled anger and distress; "you it was who first led me into this accursed habit of play, by which you have robbed me of untold thousands yourself, and been the means of my being robbed of thousands more by others. You have brought me to the door of ruin before, and would now take all I have to save me from absolute bankruptcy."
Speak kindly to those who are haughty and cold, Ye know not the thoughts that are dwelling there; Ye know not the feelings that struggle untold Oh, every heart hath its burden of care. And the curl of the lip, and the scorn of the eye Are often a bitter mockery, When a bursting heart its grief would hide From the eye of the world 'neath a veil of pride.
Far below this magnificent vantage-ground lies the valley of the Rio Las Animas Perdidas. On the other verge of the great depression rise the peerless, everlastingly snow-wreathed Spanish Peaks, whose giant summits are grim sentinels that for untold ages have witnessed hundreds of sanguinary conflicts between the wily nomads of the vast plains watered by the silent Arkansas.
"Well, I suppose the poor children will live it down, but they will have a terrible time at school. However, they are too young for anything of that kind at present. Give me the children, David, and I will act as a mother to them; then pack up your belongings, put your estate into the hands of a good agent, and go abroad for some years." "It would be an untold relief," said Mr. Delaney.
But these wonder times lived only through memory and were misted with intervening years, while it came upon me during early nights, again and again, that this was Now, and that into the hour-glass neck of Now was headed a maelstrom of untold riches of the Future minutes and hours and sapphire days ahead -a Now which was wholly unconcerned with leagues and liquor, with strikes and salaries.
But when so many good people call the Intendant a bad man, it behooves one to be circumspect in 'cultivating him, as you call it." "Well, he is rich enough to pay for all the broken pots: they say he amassed untold wealth in Acadia, Amelie!" "And lost the province for the king!" retorted Amelie, with all the asperity her gentle but patriotic spirit was capable of. "Some say he sold the country."
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