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A letter came addressed to my mother, and proved to be from the clergyman of a village in the remotest corner of Devonshire, where a cousin of my father had once been vicar. His widow, the daughter of his predecessor, had lived on there, but, owing to the misdoings of her son and the failure of a bank, she was in much distress.
Wedmore turned angrily to his daughter. "Now, Doreen, I will have no more of this nonsense. Dudley is beginning all the old tricks over again absence of mind, indifference to you did he even look at you as he said good night? and morbid interest in this old, forgotten business of Jacobs and his misdoings.
"But, after all," she said at last, in a meditative calmness of voice, "there are always some sort of ghostly wires connecting us with one another, holding us in touch with what we have been and done, with our past, and with our ancestors, with all our forsaken sins and misdoings. No, Jim, I don't believe we are ever alone.
This would be shown by the fact that he was at the head of his class, and might doubtless under other circumstances have risen to a high place in the sixth form. Then followed the details of his misdoings, of which one need only be mentioned. He had fought another boy, who, it may be added, was older than himself, and beaten him.
"Because well, there are certain things a girl of nineteen can't do without spoiling her chances in life and one of them is to be seen about alone with a man like Lord Donald." "And again I ask why?" "I really can't discuss his misdoings with you, Helena. Won't you trust me in the matter?
Was he aware that, when all was said and done, in spite of her misdoings, in spite of his passion of anxiety during her illness, in spite of the pity and affection of his daily attitude, Kitty occupied, in truth, much less of his mind than she had ever yet occupied? that a certain magic primal, incommunicable had ceased to clothe her image in his thoughts? Again probably not.
It was the policy of the official party to suppress, as far as was practicable, all reference in the public newspapers to the misdoings of themselves and their adherents. This was but natural. No one likes to see his transgressions preserved to future ages in all the pitiless coldness of type, which may rise up against his descendants long after he himself is forgotten.
He had already taken steps to borrow the thirty thousand pounds, and had, indeed, empowered his son to receive it: he had also pledged himself for the other fifty; and then, after all, that perverse fool of a girl would insist on being in love with that scapegrace, Lord Ballindine! This, however, might wear away, and he would take very good care that she should hear of his misdoings.
In the whole of this affair I have endeavoured to do exactly as he would have me; and he is more angry with me now, because his plan has failed, than he ever was before, for any of my past misdoings. But let me get up now, there's a good girl; for I've no time to lose." "Will you see your mother before you go, Adolphus?" "Why, no; it'll be no use only tormenting her.
Another document, this time of date 1641, perpetuates the memory of a second Westminster inn in a lively manner. This is a petition of a constable of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields to the House of Commons, and concerned the misdoings of certain apprentices at the time of the riot caused by Colonel Lunsford's assault on the citizens of Westminster.
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