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Updated: June 28, 2025
He has exasperated the Irish Catholics to the last degree; and for my own part, I think his language and conduct about Mr. Turnbull's resignation highly discreditable. It is another specimen of the unhappy influence of Shaftesbury's ignorance and bigotry.
And I could not help wondering, with a discreditable pang, whether his intercourse with that honest lad could have bred in Raffles a remorse for his own misdeeds, such as I myself had often tried, but always failed, to produce. So we came to the Albany in sober frame, for all our recent levity, thinking at least no evil for once in our lawless lives.
This persecution was the more mortifying and discreditable as it even extended to his servants, whom they strove to injure by every means they could employ. M. de la Chastre at this time had a lawsuit of considerable consequence decided against him, because he had lately attached himself to my brother.
"Can you deny that you were involved in a most discreditable affair in Siena before you came here? That your intrigue I hate to have to enter into the unsavoury details, Miss Agar, but you have forced me to it that your intrigue with your cousin's fiancé drove her to suicide, and that you were obliged to leave the place in consequence?" "It is not true." "Ah, but your cousin killed herself?"
In the mean time, their absenteeism is not a consequence of "the struggle for material prosperity," not a high disdain of the strife which goes on not less in Europe than in America, and must, of course, go on everywhere as long as competitive conditions endure, but is the result of chances and preferences which mean nothing nationally calamitous or discreditable.
In every period of his life, and in every transaction in which he was engaged, George Gillespie was far above all private or discreditable intriguing, which is the vice of weak, cunning, and selfish minds.
She went on thoughtfully: "I have come to believe that to know human nature at least to know it as its worst one must be the victim of some discreditable misfortune in a small community.
"I think you understand that it's a custom of this country not to demand from any man an account of what he may have done before he came out to it. In my particular case it was, however, nothing very discreditable, and I once had my aspirations, or, as you prefer to consider it, I recognized my obligations.
Such an enterprise was as discreditable to our councillors as it proved to be disastrous to our soldiers.
The gaunt man smiled demurely, and the keen eyes twinkled in his flayed face. He was, indeed, a palpable mountaineer. "What, the Matterhorn?" said he, lowering his voice and looking about him as if on the point of some discreditable admission. "Oh, yes, I've done the Matterhorn, back and front and both sides, with and without guides; but everybody has, in these days.
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