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For the matter and substance of his reply, there are divers particulars in it which serve rather to be matter of mirth than of argument, as that a Parliament parasite cannot be called an abuser of the Parliament, and that passage, “How can a clause delivered in a postscript, concerning my opinion of my way, be abusive to the Parliament?” A great privilege either of postscripts or of his opinions, that they cannot be abusive to the Parliament.
"Abuser of the salt," said the stranger calmly, "hast thou not heard of the paschal charity, and of the fine to the poor? Shall I go empty handed to the most sacred of cities?" Finally an agent was found who, in concert with associates, undertook to furnish the high votary with all he asked complete.
"What secrets found you at our seigneury, monsieur?" I understood the taunt as though I were the common interrogation mark, the abuser of hospitality, the abominable Paul Pry. But I held my wits together. "Monsieur," said I, "I found the secret of all good life: a noble kindness to the unfortunate." There was a general laugh, led by Doltaire, a concerted influence on the young gentleman.
"Asa," said the father, advancing with a portion of that dignity with which the hand of Nature seems to have invested the parental character, "you have struck the brother of your mother!" "I have struck the abuser of the whole family," returned the angry youth; "and, unless he teaches his tongue a wiser language, he had better part with it altogether, as the unruly member.
"Maisie's a great abuser of the telephone. She called me up this morning to ask whether she might share you with me for a few weeks. When I asked her why, she said to help her to forget Adair. Of course I consented." Tabs looked down at his companion to see whether her last remark had been sarcastic; to his discomfort he found that it hadn't.
I say "drawn from the veins of her abuser," because she declared she was his daughter, and every one in the room, looking upon the man and woman confronting each other, confessed that the resemblance justified the assertion. After the conclusion of all the evidence in the case, the General continued in the same position as before, and remained for some time apparently lost in abstraction.
"What secrets found you at our seigneury, monsieur?" I understood the taunt as though I were the common interrogation mark, the abuser of hospitality, the abominable Paul Pry. But I held my wits together. "Monsieur," said I, "I found the secret of all good life: a noble kindness to the unfortunate." There was a general laugh, led by Doltaire, a concerted influence on the young gentleman.
How the male had caused memories of abuse, desire for love from the former abuser, and a whole hot stream of perverse fantasies to percolate through cracks in the surface veneer of consciousness he did not know.
But the squaw was not to be dismissed; for when I followed the Frenchman, she closed in behind looking thunder, not at her abuser, but at me; and The Mute, fearing foul play and pole in hand, loyally brought up the rear of our strange procession. I shall not retail that search through robes and skins and blankets and boxes, in foul-smelling, vermin-infested wigwams. It was fruitless.
And, to crown all, even Catiline, abuser of our patience, seducer of vestal nuns, and drinker of children's blood, whose very name suggests murder, incest, and robbery, even Catiline has found an able defender in Professor Beesly.
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