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For the Banner that week pronounced it one of the classic oratorical gems of American eloquence, and the editor thereof brought a dozen copies of the paper under his arm when he climbed the hill to Lincoln Avenue the following Sunday night, and presented them to the women of the Culpepper household, whom he was punctilious to call "the ladies," and he assured Miss Molly and Mistress Culpepper he was nice about those titles also that their father and husband had a great future before him in the forum.
Had this been the burden of his thoughts when those two solitary tears forced their passage? Hardly: not even in his physical weakness would he consent to weep for such a cause. 'I forgot to mention that Mrs. Adister has a letter from her husband telling her he has been called over to Ireland on urgent business, she said. Philip answered: 'He is punctilious.
The undisciplined independence of the officers commanding regiments and companies was suppressed by the rigorous and methodical Colonel Martinet, whose name has remained in other armies besides that of France as a synonyme of punctilious exactitude.
The rest remained in the city and yielded to force; they participated in the celebrations, and even permitted themselves to eat of food prepared by the heathen, though the king had taken care not to offend the religious conscience of the Jews in such details. He had been so punctilious that there was no need for them to drink wine touched by the hand of an idolater, let alone eat forbidden food.
It was a matter of much discomfort to the crew that the new cook took his duties very seriously, and prided himself on his cooking. He was, moreover, disposed to be inconveniently punctilious about the way in which his efforts were regarded. For the first day the crew ate in silence, but at dinner-time on the second the storm broke.
Having seen a deaf-mute in the room whom she knew, the speaker concluded that this young lady belonged to that class of persons, and was very much surprised when later the hostess brought up this silent personage and introduced her. "I could not speak to you before because I had not been introduced but the pianist is Mr. Mills," remarked this punctilious person.
Why should she?" "Well, I'll tell you, Boardman. I suppose I shall have to tell you if I'm going to get any good out of you; but it's a dose." He came away from the window, and swept Boardman's clothes off the chair preparatory to taking it. Boardman lifted his head nervously from the pillow. "Oh; I'll put them on the bed, if you're so punctilious!" cried Mavering.
I myself had to bear his rage the day I came away. He locked me in my room and vomited the most horrible curses on the Abbe Coignard. I shiver when I think what his rage must have been when he found my room empty and the sheets still attached to the window by which I left to fly with you." "You ought to say with M. d'Anquetil." "How punctilious you are! Did we not depart together?
Watts, putting his hand to his mouth to cover his smile, grabbed the shiny thing again as he nodded cautiously at the crowd. Then he followed her meekly to the women's waiting room, where the wives and sisters of the comrades were assembled and they, less punctilious than the men, burst forth with a scream of joy, and the agony was over. And thus Watts McHurdie went to his greatest earthly glory.
The other Athenian generals were stern and punctilious in their demands on the confederates; they required the allotted number of men, and, in default of the supply, increased the rigour of their exactions.
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