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The dictates of my father were to MacVittie and MacFin the laws of the Medes and Persians, not to be altered, innovated, or even discussed; and the punctilios exacted by Owen in their business transactions, for he was a great lover of form, more especially when he could dictate it ex cathedra, seemed scarce less sanctimonious in their eyes.
He was donned in his Sunday garments, with his most sanctimonious and sourest face, and, holding his hat in one hand, and his stick in the other, he proceeded to clean his shoes on the mat. 'Good-evening, Joseph, I said, coldly. 'What business brings you here to-night? 'It's Maister Linton I mun spake to, he answered, waving me disdainfully aside. 'Mr.
Bossuet was not sanctimonious, but, to serve his own ends, proffered himself as spokesman and emissary, being anxious to prove to his old colleagues that he was on the side of what they styled moral conduct and good example. For a while I walked up and down my salon; but the least exertion fatigues me.
Besides this, he was popular for a score of reasons, being no sanctimonious preacher of his doctrines, but as joyous a liver as any among them and as open-handed and high of spirit. "'Tis not for me to say how other men should live," was his simple and straightforward creed. "I live as I like best and find best pays me. 'Tis for others to seek out and follow what best pays themselves."
Thompson, his drunken doxy, and he went to his death with the sure step of one who, having done his duty, is reconciled with the world. The mob testified its affectionate admiration by dubbing him 'Charley, and remembered with effusion his last grim pleasantry. 'What is the scaffold? he asked with sublime earnestness. And the answer came quick and sanctimonious: 'A short cut to Heaven!
Now then, I want to ask you why everybody, in my case, didn't go about with sanctimonious faces and dolorous mien repeating: 'Her grand-mother eloped! Her mother ran away. Poor child, she's doomed! doomed!" "Sylvia, I " "Yes why didn't they? That's the way they talk about that boy out there!" She swept a rounded arm toward the veranda. "Yes, but he has already broken loose, while you "
My Captain was always full of moral counsels and maxims of good conduct, but they came from him as naturally as his breath, and his own life was so honourable that there was nothing sanctimonious in his way or his words. As I was about to start he begged me to assure my mother that if she would join them at table he would consider it an honour.
"Then you'd forgive her, sir, whatever happened," Dawney said. "Forgiveness is another thing. I leave that to your sanctimonious beggars. But, hunt a woman! Hang it, sir, I'm not a cad!" and bringing his hand down with a rattle, he added: "This is a subject that don't bear talking of." Sarelli fell back in his seat, twirling his moustaches fiercely.
"In his weak, gross, sinful flesh yes, no doubt," returned the Deacon, scornfully, "and, perhaps, even in a worldly sense, for those who value the vanities of life; but he is lost to us, for all time, and lost to eternal life forever. Not," he continued in sanctimonious vindictiveness, "but that I often had my doubts of Brother Masterton's steadfastness. He was too much given to imagery and song."
He marched in sanctimonious as you please, with his mouth full of salvation and Bible verses." She laughed again at the recollection. "And after that," said the rector, "you felt that ministers were a lot of hypocrites." "I never had much opinion of 'em," she admitted, "nor of church people, either," she added, with emphasis.
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