Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 3, 2025
We acknowledge that the tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach; and we know that, in spite of their hatred of popery, they too often fell into the worst vices of that bad system, intolerance and extravagant austerity, that they had their anchorites and their crusades, their Dunstans and their De Montforts, their Dominics and their Escobars.
Yes, he was the youngest son of the house. He had nothing to do, and he liked the library. He often came there and sat and read things. There were some queer old books and a lot of stupid ones. The book he was reading now? It was one of the queer ones, but interesting for all that. It was about their own people the generations of Mount Dunstans who had lived in the centuries past.
To Australia or somewhere. He has odd ideas. The Mount Dunstans have been awful people for two generations. This man's father was almost mad with wickedness. So was the elder son. This is a second son, and he came into nothing but debt. Perhaps he feels the disgrace and it makes him rude and ill-tempered. His father and elder brother had been in such scandals that people did not invite them.
Her companion stood still and leaned upon his gun again, looking as he had looked before. "Some of it," he said, "was here before the Conquest. It belonged to Mount Dunstans then." "And only one of them is left," she cried, "and it is like this!" "They have been a bad lot, the last hundred years," was the surly liberty of speech he took, "a bad lot."
Barbarous enough the Anglo-Saxons were, but wanton cruelty does not seem to have been one of their traits. To produce it some access of religious fury was usually requisite. It was on the church doors that the skins of their Danish invaders were nailed. Kingston has no more Dunstans. Alexandra would be perfectly safe in its market-place.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking