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The proverb says, "like master, like man;" and if you stay with that kind of a man, you'll come under suspicion by and by, just as sure as you live. He paid first-class wages; but said I, What's wages when your reputation's in danger? So I let the wages go, and froze to my reputation. And I've never regretted it. Reputation's worth everything, ain't it? That's the way I look at it.
With Sir W. Coventry, who I find full of care in his own business, how to defend himself against those that have a mind to cheque him; and though I believe not for honour and for the keeping his employment, but for safety and reputation's sake, is desirous to preserve himself free from blame. 9th.
Misled by passion, over- persuaded by entreaties, or compelled for reputation's sake, he has many times held the balance with an unsteady hand. How sad the condition of him who is in authority! Not only are the miseries of power imposed upon him, but its vices also, which, not content with torturing, succeed in corrupting him.
My disgraces, if they are to have an end, need not be proclaimed to the whole world. I ask this favour, therefore, for my reputation's sake, that I may be able to hold up my head in the neighbourhood, if I live to see an end of the unmerited severities which seem to be designed for Your unhappy sister, CL. HARLOWE.
They all left him to me Daddy and Aunt Adeline and Queenie, I mean and they can't stop me now." "Mother doesn't want to stop you. It's your father." "I'll write and tell Daddy. Besides, it's too late. If I left Colin to-morrow it wouldn't stop the scandal. My reputation's gone and I can't get it back, can I?" "Dear Anne, you don't know how adorable you are without it."
For she doesn't resemble me in the least, and therefore my reputation's everlastingly safe, thanks to her. Why, before the calumniating thought has had time to arise in your mind, one look in that child's face will dissipate it, she's so entirely the image of her father." There was a momentary silence, but for the sobbing of the gale and rattling of the casements.
I laughed and rubbed the back of his hand softly with the tips of my nice pink finger nails, and laughed again. "Then here came a light wagon, Matters and Waldron, going home, and we realized we had been loitering on the job. Kirke shook his head impatiently. "'You distracted me, he said. 'I forgot my reputation's salvation in the smile of your eye. "But we drove on to look the field over.
The next day he entered the tribune, and profiting, for his reputation's sake, by the confidential discussions to which he had listened in the previous evening, he anticipated the hour of action agreed upon with his allies, and thus divulged the plan concerted. When blamed for this at Madame Roland's, he made but slight excuse.
"A person who was ignorant of it was shut out from all acquaintance not merely with Cicero and Virgil, but with the most interesting memoirs, state papers, and pamphlets of his own time" a literature necessary to the Stratford lad, for his fictitious reputation's sake, since the writer of his Works would begin to use it wholesale and in a most masterly way before the lad was hardly more than out of his teens and into his twenties.
But this beats all of 'em, I will give in." "You don't suppose you don't suppose he is doing it to help you, because you are his friend? Because he is afraid the bank or you may get into trouble because of well, because of having been so careless?" Captain Sam laughed once more. "No, no," he said. "Gracious king, I hope my reputation's good enough to stand the losin' of four hundred dollars.
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