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Wharton, on the subject of the Damesley strike. You give me leave?" Whereupon, in less than ten minutes, the speaker had executed an important commission, and, in offering Wharton a bribe of the most bare-faced kind, had also found time for supplying him with a number of the most delicate and sufficient excuses for taking it. The masters, in fact, sent an embassy.
The following is an extract from his letter: "In sober earnestness, gentlemen, why send your circular to a Catholic bishop? Why have the bare-faced impudence to ask me to consent to the expatriation of millions of my co-religionists and fellow-countrymen?
"You see, I am carrying you off in the most bare-faced fashion," she began, motioning him to a seat by her side, "but really you are such an elusive person, and only this morning, in the midst of that awful thunder of bombs, when we stood on the roof and looked at London breaking out into flames, I couldn't help thinking remembering, I mean how short a time it is since you and I were face to face with the other horror and you saved my life.
"Your manners," Lady Caroom told him, as the last of her guests departed, "are simply hoydenish. Who told you that you might sit out all my visitors in this bare-faced way?" "You, dear lady, or rather your manner," he answered, imperturbably. "It seemed to me that you were saying all the time, 'Do not desert me! Do not desert me! And so I sat tight."
I don't think the fellow would have the bare-faced impudence to come through Prague," one said. The other laughed. "I should think that he would have impudence for anything, major. And in truth, I rather hope that they won't lay hands upon him a fellow who devised and carried out such a scheme as he did deserves his liberty.
Church, turning very pale. "The money that she owes me?" "Yes, the money she owes you. A thief came into the shop and took some of her money, and she is very short of money and very worried. I will tell you the news if you will forgive mother." "Well," said Mrs. Church, "of all the impertinent, bare-faced, wicked little girls, you beat them all.
Why should I? Women will only be in the way; and who could desire to contemplate so horrible a spectacle? It will merely harrow your feelings, Aunt Patty, and you can do no good." "It is my Christian duty as a neighbor; and I was always very fond of the first Mrs. Darrington, Helena Tracey. What is this wicked world coming to? Robbery and murder stalking bare-faced through the land.
We tried him with hints, with bland suppositions, with bare-faced questions, and could not break through his taciturnity. But even Fred had no defense against Ma Wagor's curiosity, and little by little, through her persistent questioning, we learned that he had a homestead near the Agency, that he had run a newspaper in the Northwest, and that he had been connected with the Indian Service.
"Before I answer that question, Mr. Mr. Holbrook, as you choose to call yourself, I'll ask you another. By what right do you call yourself my daughter's husband? what evidence have you to produce to prove that you are not a bare-faced impostor?
"It depends largely on his previous record." "Will it be settled to-day?" "If the jury bring in a verdict. Sometimes they are out all night on these cases." "A jury! Good God! A jury of Irishmen to try, an Irishman?" "They're being trained gradually, sir." "It should never be left to them in a country like this A judge should have the power of condemning such bare-faced criminals, without trial."
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