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Further, it is unfortunate that women are not infrequently more inclined to be gracious to the sinner who repents, when it is worth his while, than they are to the honest man who has done no wrong. Nor do I know that it is only pity which influences them. Some of you take an exasperating delight in picturesque rascality." Miss Barrington laughed, and fearlessly met her uncle's glance.
John March can distrust me and leave me out of his precious company as much as he damn pleases if you like his favorite forms of speech and so may your tomtit Yankee. But you sha'n't! You sha'n't repay a father's careful plans with suspicions of underhanded rascality, you unregenerate see here! Do those two pups know you didn't want me to go? Answer me!" She could not.
After his return to Sarawak he married his daughter to Seriff Bujang, the brother of Seriff Messahore, whose rascality and bad faith were on a par with his own. Bujang was a quiet creature enough, drawn into the wicked plots of his brother and father-in-law, but they were bad to the core.
Dinneford had contributed from her private fortune the sum of twenty thousand dollars. Not until she had furnished him with that large amount would he consent to leave the city. He magnified her danger, and so overcame her with terrors that she yielded to his exorbitant demand. On the day a public newspaper announcement of Freeling's rascality was made, Mrs.
The wisdom is sometimes hidden; modesty covers it up, and if the rascality is always apparent it is my frankness that holds it up to view. Yes, sir. But my wisdom lacks something, is in want of something to direct it. Pure wisdom can't direct itself, John; it is like gold it must have an alloy.
To hear him talk, it would have seemed as if Gregorio had been the tyrant who had kept him in bondage all these years, fully aware of his falsehood, peculation, and other rascality, but as unable to break the yoke as if he had been in truth the slave of anything but his own evil habit and helpless acquiescence. Would it last if Gregorio made his appearance at that instant with Alwyn in his hand?
"And suppose you were to say, 'No: you didn't ought ever to have been confined'?" "I must trouble you to look in my face again, Mr. Brown. Now, do you see treason, bad faith, avarice, ingratitude, rascality in it?" "Not a grain of 'em," said Brown, with an accent of conviction.
Departure from Damascus The Fountains of the Pharpar Pass of the Anti-Lebanon Adventure with the Druses The Range of Lebanon The Demon of Hasheesh departs Impressions of Baalbec The Temple of the Sun Titanic Masonry The Ruined Mosque Camp on Lebanon Rascality of the Guide The Summit of Lebanon The Sacred Cedars The Christians of Lebanon An Afternoon in Eden Rugged Travel We Reach the Coast Return to Beyrout.
No, France and England, Bresson and Bulwer, playing their game of chess of the Spanish marriages on the green cloth of political rascality, never said anything comparable to the devices of these lying chevaliers of the forest.
He began by asserting that Franklin was old, idle, and useless, fit only to be shelved in some respectable sinecure mission; but he rapidly advanced from such moderate condemnation until he charged Franklin with being a party to the abstraction of his dispatches from a sealed parcel, which was rifled in some unexplained way on its passage home; and finally he even reached the extremity of alleging financial dishonesty in the public business, and insinuated an opinion that the doctor's great rascality indicated an intention never again to revisit his native land.
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