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He said that in his opinion Hathelsborough was the rottenest and most corrupt little town in all England!" "Did you take that as a seriously meant statement, Mr. Brent?" "Oh, well he laughed as he made it. I took it as a specimen of his rather heightened way of putting things." "Did he say anything that led you to think that he believed himself to have bitter enemies in the town?"
"Well, you know how they talk," growled Harran. "They have claimed that the cases taken up to the Supreme Court were not test cases as WE claim they ARE, and that because neither Annixter nor the Governor appealed, they've lost their cases by default. It's the rottenest kind of sharp practice, but it won't do any good. The League is too strong. They won't dare move on us yet awhile.
"Look here, Enoch, a fellow might have the rottenest mother and rottenest father on earth, but the Lord will start the fellow out with a clean slate, just the same. Folks aren't born bad. You can't inherit your parents' badness.
"Look here, Sheen," he said, "we've come to the conclusion that this has got a bit too thick." "You mustn't talk in that chatty way, Clayton," interrupted Linton. "'Prisoner at the bar's' the right expression to use. Why don't you let somebody else have a look in? You're the rottenest president of a court-martial I ever saw." "Don't rag, Linton," said Clayton, with an austere frown.
"But you'd better let the sky pilot go. They ain't going to hurt him. You've been the church buildingest damn fool in the Rockies." "Speak for yourself, Jimmy!" cried Peter. "I'm with you, Doug." "And so am I!" exclaimed Judith. "This is the rottenest trick ever sprung in Lost Chief!" "You will not stir a step after the preacher, miss!" roared John.
We had a dinner at the Castle, at Marlborough, his Lordship in the chair; but as most of the troop were composed of his father's, Lord Aylesbury's tenants, and his dependants, and tradesmen, or belonged to the corporation of the rottenest of rotten boroughs, Marlborough and Great Bedwin, there were very few, except myself and my friends, Hancock and Hitchcock, who dared to say their souls were their own.
"That's it," cried Roy savagely. "It's partiality. Eliot doesn't like me, and he isn't going to let me do any pitching. Wants to bury me out in right garden, the rottenest position on the team. A fellow never has much of any chance out there." "Oh, probably he knew you wouldn't accept the position, anyhow," said Herbert. "He had to make a bluff at giving you something."
A distressed murmur of concern and pity rose all about her, everyone patted her shoulder, and bitter denunciations of Mr. Brauer and Miss Kirk broke forth. Even Hunter, Baxter & Hunter were not spared, being freely characterized as "the rottenest people in the city to work for!" "It would serve them right," said more than one indignant voice, "if the whole crowd of us walked out on them!"
Isn't he good enough for her?" He lowered his voice. The frown of perplexity deepened in his eyes. "I can't make him out, Mary," he said, lowering his voice. "What do you mean?" she asked quickly. "Well, I may be doing him the rottenest injustice, but somehow he doesn't ring quite true to me." "For goodness sake, Addy, " she began, and then: "In what way? Hurry up! Tell me before she comes down.
"Perhaps it would have been too much like housekeeping," she laughed; "kind of what Mary would call indelicate " "Or raw," Billy interpolated. "She was always springin' that word." "And yet look what became of her." "That's the way with all of them," Billy growled somberly. "I've always noticed it's the fastidious, la-de-da ones that turn out the rottenest.
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