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Within six months of Carinthia Jane's disappearance, people had begun to talk of strange doings at Calesford; and some would have it, that it was the rehearsal of a play, in which friars were prominent characters, for there the frocked gentry were seen flitting across the ground.
"Do you deny that your being here is a menace to Miss Clairville's peace and that you you a frocked and tonsured priest have addressed words of love to her? If I did not utterly despise you, I should kick you out into the storm." "You need do neither. I do not deny that I love Miss Clairville; I deny only that I have menaced or threatened her in any form.
And there was the solitary Englishman perhaps less generously equipped than the others whom everybody differed from, ridiculed, and then looked up to and imitated. There were the half-dozen smartly frocked women, who, far from being the females of the foregoing species, were quite indistinctive, with the single exception of an American wife, who was infinitely more Scotch than her Scotch husband.
Next I see myself with Elsa, alone for a little while with Elsa exultant in her pomp, observed of all, the envy of all, the centre of the spectacle, frocked and jewelled beyond heart's desire, narcotized by fuss and finery, laughing and trembling. I had found her alone with difficulty, for she kept some woman by her almost all the day. She did not desire to be alone with me.
Once more the two figures stared at the stranger, and with added boorishness of surprise. "Does this road go to London, gentlemen?" "Gentlemen egad!" cried one of the two. "Egad!" echoed the second. Putting their hoes before them, the two frocked boors now took a good long look at Israel, meantime scratching their heads under their plaited straw hats. "Does it, gentlemen? Does it go to London?
Then there were pretty dresses to be made to take the place of the single leopard skin and in this she found the child as responsive and enthusiastic as any civilized miss of her acquaintance. A month passed before the head man returned a month that had transformed the savage, half-naked little tarmangani into a daintily frocked girl of at least outward civilization.
So the black- frocked, cold-faced sharps became frequent visitors at Durade's. Jones, the professional, won on that second visit a fatal winning for him. Allie saw the giant Fresno suddenly fling himself upon Jones and bear him to the floor. Then Allie fled to her room.
So they went down, and found the bishop, who was by this time unbound, seated in a corner of the cabin, his hands fallen on his knees, his eyes staring on vacancy, while the two priests stood as close against the wall as they could squeeze themselves, keeping up a ceaseless mutter of prayers. "Your holiness will breakfast with us, of course; and these two frocked gentlemen likewise.
The men made way for Mavis to enter the library. It was by no means the triumphant, richly garbed Mavis whom the women had expected who came into the room. It was a subdued, carelessly frocked Mavis, who, after accepting their chastened greetings, kept her eyes on her husband. When the door was closed, Harold was the first to speak. "Mother, if I may call you that! father! all of you!
It is not that the hereditary system injures directly; its crime lies in what it engenders the pestilence of snobbery, which poisons nearly all who come into contact with it, titled and untitled, frocked and unfrocked, washed and unwashed.
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