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Whether or not he was well advised to settle himself at Palermo, aware as he must have been of the actual temptation, and of the serious injury that scandal was doing to his reputation, both professional and personal, may admit of doubt.
Whatever may be thought of the somewhat aristocratic pretensions of the lion, as the dog, after all, has the reputation of being the most intelligent of the inferior animals, I will allow this interesting family the precedence in these stories, and introduce them first to the reader.
With me, it does not make so much difference, as I have no reputation but that which is already lost, but you, my dear sir, think of your position. Go to the colonel and confess all, and ask him to forgive you," and I wiped my eyes on my coat sleeve. "But I was not drunk," said the chaplain, indignantly. "I was not in a saloon, and never saw a game of billiards in my life.
In no part of South America has Spain made any impression on the colonies, while in many parts, and particularly in Venezuela and New Grenada, the colonies have gained strength and acquired reputation, both for the management of the war in which they have been successful and for the order of the internal administration.
Springing to my feet, I rushed to the table, seized my pen, and signed my name to the story. "There!" I said. "It is done. I have saved my position and made my reputation, and am now a thief!" "As well as a fool," said the other, calmly. "You don't mean to say you are going to send that manuscript in as it is?" "Good Lord!" I cried.
No doubt this last is a genuine and frequent reason for the non-acknowledgment of indebtedness to what one may call impersonal as well as personal sources: even an American editor of school classics whose own English could not pass for more than a syntactical shoddy of the cheapest sort, felt it unfavourable to his reputation for sound learning that he should be obliged to the Penny Cyclopaedia, and disguised his references to it under contractions in which Us.
His reputation as a physician and a man skilled in all sciences was so great, that the Sultan Magdal Douleth resolved to try his powers in the great science of government. He was accordingly made Grand Vizier of that Prince, and ruled the state with some advantage: but, in a science still more difficult, he failed completely.
"You don't mean to say that you believe the cuss done the best he could?" "I think I do, Linton." "Shucks. Women is odd that way, ain't they? You ain't tellin' me that you think he's on the level that his reputation ain't as bad as some folks make believe it is, an' that he's square?" "I believe he's square, Linton!" the girl answered, firmly.
I'd go to New York I'd be somebody I'd make a national reputation for myself." "I believe you would," said Peter sadly, but with a glance of admiration. "That's the worst of being a woman we have to sit still until something happens to us." "What would you like to happen?" he asked, curiously. And there was a note in his voice which she, intent upon her thoughts, did not remark.
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