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Yet all the while Chang's moral principles were unsullied, his conscience clear; and so all just men were forced to confess that he was not morally, but only physically, drunk. By every right and by every moral evidence the man was strictly sober; and, therefore, it caused his friends all the more anguish to see him shake hands with the pump and try to wind his watch with his night-key.
Now at all hazards the thief must not be suffered to escape. "I will take your night-key, Mr. Stephens," said Theodore, quietly, "and let myself in without ringing on my return." A moment more and he stood alone on the granite steps.
Our nation often seems like a householder who has given his night-key to an enemy who has threatened his home with firebrands. Our nation has loved not wisely, but too well. The time has come when it must choose between loving itself and becoming bankrupt in intelligence and morality.
John was to go out to meet the gentleman, or was the gentleman to come to his rooms?" "To his rooms, I think, miss." She was wearing her blue tea-gown, stretched out on the cushions of one of the big divans in the silent drawing-room, when she heard Jack's night-key touch the lock. Springing to her feet she ran toward him. "Why, Jack, what's this I hear about your not coming to my dance?
Should I proceed to fall in love just to see if it would go to my head, and should it do so, my Dulcina del Toboso might marry me before I recovered my mental equipoise, and I would awaken to find my liberty a has-been and my night-key non est. Of course I should mind it ever so little, but it would be awfully hard on the lady.
He received his Letters-Patent only two years back. We date from Palmerston." The lodger came up the street just at that moment, and stopped and looked up at the Lion and the Unicorn from the sidewalk, before he opened the door with his night-key.
Van Berg's night-key admitted him to a beautiful home, which he now had wholly to himself, since his parents and sister had sailed for Europe early in the spring, intending to spend the summer abroad.
Minturn had to go to a committee meeting, expecting to be detained late; as he arose from the dinner-table, he said, "How am I to get in to-night? Here's my night-key in two pieces." "I'll be night-key, sir," said Edward promptly. "Well, you may; you can take your books to the library, and have a long evening to pore over them."
Not a living creature was to be seen, save the dissipated family cat a very Lovelace of a cat that was not allowed a night-key who was sitting on the curbstone opposite, waiting for the hall door to be opened. Three quarters of an hour, we repeat, had passed, when Mrs.
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