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Truscott's evident avoidance of him and Miss Sanford's serene indifference, he was beginning to feel that he could welcome anything that would besmirch their names or cloud their domestic peace.
"Is anybody likely to make it notorious?" he demanded, colouring up. "Ask yourself.... I haven't the slightest interest in your personal conduct" there was a catch in her voice "except when it threatens to besmirch my own home." The painful colour gathered and settled under his cheek-bones. "Do you wish me to leave?" "Yes, I do. But you can't without others knowing how and why." "Oh, yes, I can "
It is said that even so early as the campaign of 1828, when he was but fifteen, he organized a band of his playmates to make war on the "coffin handbills" wherewith the Adams men sought to besmirch the military fame of General Jackson, already become his hero.
Don't you dare besmirch with your foul tongue..." "My tongue isn't foul I take communion," impudently replied the woman. "But you, you fool, wear horns. You go traipsing around with prostitutes yourself, and yet want your wife not to play you false. And look where the dummy's found a place to slaver, till he looks like he had reins in his mouth.
Was it through any lack of love for Dick that she allowed the foul slander to besmirch his memory, when everybody had believed him dead? No, a thousand times no! The position was a strange one, a hideous tangle of nice, sentimental distinctions. Small wonder that the woman should be blind, and set the balance in her own favor!
These portions of Balzac's confidences, which reflect upon his character seriously, and besmirch him more than those against whom they were spoken, cannot be overlooked in a biography. They have to be included in our judgment of him, and, in a measure, concern the tragic close of his love romance.
"Have not his attempted crimes against you and your husband forfeited whatever rights the bonds of kinship might have accorded him?" asked Tarzan. "The fact that you are his sister has not deterred him from seeking to besmirch your honor. You owe him no loyalty, madame." "Ah, but there is that other reason.
Once the allies were masters of France, Louis XVIII, to punish Masséna for having abandoned his cause after March 20th, included him among the judges who were to try Marshal Ney, hoping that out of enmity he would condemn his former colleague and so besmirch his good name; but Masséna recused himself on the grounds that there had been disagreements between him and Marshal Ney in Portugal, and when this measure failed he joined with those judges who wanted Ney brought before the House of Peers.
Whatever happened, he and Kitty should not degenerate into a pair of scolds besmirch their life with quarrels as ugly as they were silly. He would wrestle with her, his beloved, unreasonable, foolish Kitty; he ought, of course, to have done so before. But it was only within the last week or so that the horizon had suddenly darkened the thing grown serious. And now this beastly paragraph!
While she was seated he stood before her with folded arms, looking straight at her. Suddenly, fixing her with those remarkable eyes of his, he asked in a deep, hard voice: "Xenie, will you permit this man to besmirch the name of him whom God hath sent to you?" "I don't understand!" she cried, surprised at his attitude. "How can I prevent it?" "It lies in your hands," declared the mock saint.
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