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Those were the prizes we raced for, when racing was the pastime of gentlemen, and not an excuse for blackguardism and gambling, as to-day it is fast becoming. So my kind hosts and I made our little bets, and enjoyed ourselves right thoroughly, until the last race, which was won by a grandson of the great Selim, was over and done.
But it's got to be the truth." "Do you know the nickname of this paper?" "Yes. My father told me of it." "It was his set that pinned it on us. 'The Daily Carrion, they call us, and they said that our triumphal roosters ought to be vultures. Do you know why?" "In plain English because of the paper's lies and blackguardism." "In plainer English, because of its truth. Wait a minute, now.
Perhaps there was this latent good in all of them, though generally they looked brutish, and dull even in their sports; there was little mirth among them, nor even a fully awakened spirit of blackguardism.
"Don't you dictate to me, sir. I promised the Doctor that I would talk to you both severely about this this well, piece of blackguardism, ungentlemanly conduct, and I must keep my word. But I will reserve the rest till after dinner." "After dinner, father?" cried Glyn eagerly. "Yes.
This is the inevitable result of blackguardism. The newspaper reader, as he sees that one man supports one measure because his wife's uncle is interested in it, and another man another measure to gratify his grudge against a rival, gradually learns from his daily morning mentor that there is no such thing as honor, decency, or public spirit in public affairs; he chuckles with the club cynic, although for a very different reason, and forgets the contents of one column as he begins upon the next.
There is a comic side, more or less appreciable, in all blackguardism here there was nothing but tragedy mute, weird tragedy. The quiet in the room was horrible.
If the young ladies from Wells or Wellesley inquire ingenuously, "Tell us where is Fancy bred?" we should have to reply, with a jingle, In the fists, not in the head. The poet himself, in a fit of unusual candour, says: Fancy's a term for every blackguardism, though this is much too severe.
When he made use of such a phrase as that quoted above, it was to be presumed that he in some sort meant what he said; and so he did, and had intended to signify that Crosbie by his conduct had merited all such condemnation as was the fitting punishment for blackguardism of the worst description. "He ought to have his neck broken," said Johnny. "I don't know about that," said the earl.
Hanging and burning, torture and oppression, poison and Penal Laws, bribes and blackguardism so far from exterminating the Irish people actually hammered them into a nation, one and indestructible, proud of its past and confident of its future. Take instances still more recent and particular the struggle for religious freedom or the struggle for the land.
"Verily," he said, as he entered his lodgings, "the fervour of that congregation, who do not come as in other churches from the districts, but are pilgrims from everywhere and one knows not where, is out of tune with the blackguardism of this foolish age."
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