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"There's no suspicion of foul play, is there?" interrupted the clerk, in strangely subdued tones. "Not that I know of, except in Lydia's temper," answered Mrs. Gum. "But I don't like to hear he was up there at all." "Lydia Jones is a foul-tongued woman, capable of swearing away any man's life. Is Pike in custody?" "Not yet. They've let him off for the present.
Calamities soon come upon them that are of wicked disposition, devoid of wisdom, envious, or sinful, foul-tongued, and wrathful. Absence of deceitfulness, gifts, observance of the established rules of intercourse, and speech well-controlled, bring all creatures under subjection.
Each of these confronted by the witnesses who testified against him, and allowed to cross-examine them to any extent he desired. The defense was managed by one of their crowd, the foul-tongued Tombs shyster, Pete Bradley, of whom I have before spoken.
"Your pardon, captain," said the sergeant, "but you are uttering many words that no maiden should hear." "Do you dare to argue with me, you foul-tongued camp scavenger?" shouted Gallus. "Here, guard, lash him to that tree! Fear not, daughter; the insult shall be avenged; we shall teach his dirty tongue to sing another tune," and again he cursed him, naming him by new names.
Now my wife says there's points about a woman that you don't reckon into your notion; and my dog says there's more in a tail than most men estimate " "You foul-tongued poacher " broke out my father. "Now you're mixing matters up," Dick interrupted, blandly; "I poach, and that's a crime. I've shown your boy to-day how men kill badgers, and maybe that's wrong.
"Quite so, dearest; but why should I have vexed him, seeing that he is so good to me, and that he must be gone so soon?" "Who had told him of us?" asked Mrs. O'Hara. "That woman down there at Castle Quin." "Lady Mary?" "Foul-tongued old maid that she is," exclaimed Fred. "She writes to my aunt by every post, I believe." "What evil can she say of us?" "She does say evil. Never mind what.
Like children that have been always brought up in a family of foul-tongued transgressors, the very first words of English which the natives learn are words of wickedness and blasphemy; the only introduction to the name of their God and Saviour is in order that they may insult that holy Name, and blaspheme the Divine Majesty.
They also dropped into the procession, and then, as they traversed the seven miles of the high road to Croxley, their two-horsed, rosetted carriage became gradually the nucleus of a comet with a loosely radiating tail. From every side-road came the miners' carts, the humble, ramshackle traps, black and bulging, with their loads of noisy, foul-tongued, open-hearted partisans.
He worked hard in the agitation which saved women from working in the mines, and I have heard him tell how he had seen them toiling, naked to the waist, with short petticoats barely reaching to their knees, rough, foul-tongued, brutalised out of all womanly decency and grace; and how he had seen little children working there too, babies of three and four set to watch a door, and falling asleep at their work to be roused by curse and kick to the unfair toil.
Always blustery and frothy, he divided the world in two superior officers, before whom he grovelled, and inferiors to whom he was a mouthy, foul-tongued, contemptible bully, in spite of a certain lingering kindness of heart that showed itself at such rare times when he was neither roaring drunk nor crucified by black reaction.
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