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Clifford Du Bois, the managing editor, was a cool reprobate of forty, masquerading as a gentleman, and using the Inquirer in subtle ways for furthering his personal ends, and that under the old General's very nose. He was osseous, sandy-haired, blue-eyed, with a keen, formidable nose and a solid chin. Clifford Du Bois was always careful never to let his left hand know what his right hand did.
Courtney, looking at the colonel in perplexity. "I don't quite understand." "On that hotel deal," the colonel affably reminded him, and was unkind enough to laugh. "You old reprobate!" protested Courtney. "I don't see why you want to publish my disgrace." "You deserve it," chuckled the colonel. "It won't hurt for Johnny to know it though.
"I believe the darned old reprobate was lyin' to us," he remarked, when the horseman disappeared into a coulee. "You sure ought to be qualified to recognize the symptoms," grunted Cal Emmett, kicking his foot out of somebody's carelessly coiled rope on the ground. "That your rope, Happy? No wonder you're always on the bum for one. If you'd try tying it on your saddle " "Aw, g'wan.
"That day the baby was born I thought to myself, 'Well, here's somethin' that'll make Amos forgit about his callin' and election for once, anyhow; and I wrapped the little feller up in his blanket and held him to the light, so his father could see him; and Amos looked at him like he was skeered, for a minute, and then he says, 'O Lord! I hope it ain't a reprobate.
That's the sort of education that sharpens a man's intellect. My father was a reprobate and a gamester, and I knew at an early age that I had nothing to hope for from him. I have had my own way to carve in life, and if I have as yet made small progress, I have fought against terrible odds." "I wonder you don't set up in a professional career," said Mr.
These Genii, according to our belief and hope, are not altogether reprobate, but are still in the way of probation, and may hereafter be punished or rewarded. Leave we this to the mollahs and the imaums.
The house will be well rid of him, for a more idle, good-for-nothing reprobate never crossed its threshold." "Is this true, Sir?" cried Mrs. Sheppard, with an agonized look at Wood. "I know you'll not deceive me. Is Jack what Mrs. Wood represents him?" "He's not exactly what I could desire him to be, Joan," replied the carpenter, reluctantly, "But a ragged colt sometimes makes the best horse.
It seems that the old man had a reprobate son, who, many years since, went off to parts unknown; and his parents have heard nothing of him since, that is, until to-day, when a woman, claiming to be his widow, appeared with five children.
'Go back to your chair and sit down, said Pauer, laying a hand on Paul's shoulder. 'Don't make mountains out of molehills. The lad allowed himself to be pushed into a seat 'It's all very well for you, you glass-eyed old reprobate, said Pauer, speaking in English. 'I can understand the boy if you can't. 'You! gasped Darco, with a new spurt of laughter. 'You!
Slanders of the blackest dye against his moral character were freely circulated, and as readily believed. It was the common talk that he was a thorough reprobate. Nothing was too bad for him. He was "a witch, a Jesuit, a highwayman, and the like." It was reported that he had "his misses and his bastards; that he had two wives at once," &c. Such charges roused all the man in Bunyan.
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