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But he who was most earnest on the one side was least aware that he who was most earnest on the other was honest as himself. To confess uprightness in one of the opposite party, seemed to most men to involve treachery to their own; or if they were driven to the confession, it was too often followed with an attempt at discrediting the noblest of human qualities.
We design no more, than to be in a likely capacity of doing good, and not discrediting our religion, nor suffering the Gospel to be disesteemed: but their aim is clearly, not only by cheats, contrived tales, and feigned miracles, to get money in abundance; but to be worshipped, and almost deified, is as little as they will content themselves withal.
Would Time have arrested his march for ever, there would have been small fault to find with Nature's gifts to Miss Bushell; but, as her mother said, Millie was just what she had been at twenty-one; and Mrs. Bushell was now extremely stout. Millie escaped the inference by discrediting her mother's recollection.
But if Don Vigilio were to be believed, that divorce, obtained by pecuniary outlay, and under pressure of the most notorious influences, was simply a scandal which he, Nani, had in the first instance spun out, and then precipitated towards a resounding finish with the sole object of discrediting the Cardinal and destroying his chances of the tiara on the eve of the Conclave which everybody thought imminent.
"If you will stop to think a moment, his shafts have been levelled quite as much at discrediting Langhorne as yourself. He might hope to kill two birds with one stone and incidentally save himself." "Perhaps," assented Kennedy carefully. "Surely we should take some steps to protect ourselves from his impostures," hastened Carton.
"My impulse was to tell Calvaster I disbelieved any story he fathered, that I had my Father's instructions discrediting him, that I knew all about your intimacy with Flexinna and her husband, that I knew all about your excursion to Aricia and why you went and that I approved and that was the end of it. I have told you why I hesitated. "But I was inclined that way.
In vain do you make his body soft by inaction; his understanding does not become subtle. Far from it, you complete your task of discrediting reason in his eyes, by making him use such reasoning power as he has on the things which seem of least importance to him. As he never finds his reason any use to him, he decides at last that it is useless.
But at dawn he was awakened to have the sheets of copy returned with a note from the editor saying that his Excellency had positively and severely forbidden any mention of the affair, and had further ordered the denial of any versions and comments that might get abroad, discrediting them as exaggerated rumors.
Why don't you speak?" impatiently demanded the duke. "Mille pardons. Monseigneur; but madame has gone," sadly replied Leblanc. "What do you say?" exclaimed the duke, discrediting the evidence of his own ears. "Mille pardons, Monsieur le Duc, Madame la Duchesse has gone." "Gone! the duchess gone!" exclaimed the duke, in amazement, not unmixed with incredulity. "Oui; Monseigneur."
* For instance, a young monk, for writing fanatic letters, and signing resolutions in favour of foederalism a hosier, for facilitating the return of an emigrant a man of ninety, for speaking against the revolution, and discrediting the assignats a contractor, for embezzling forage people of various descriptions, for obstructing the recruitment, or insulting the tree of liberty.
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