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Updated: November 26, 2024
You know that I didn't mean to be rude. I wanted to speak to you about something very important to us, at least. Ruth will be scandalised, but it's bound to come out sooner or later, and I want to understand our position... We told you this morning that we proposed to learn riding." "You did." "And you made no objection." "On the contrary, I quite approved.
I'm going to marry Miss Allardyce, and then she'll be Mrs. Coppy, as you say. If your young mind is so scandalised at the idea of kissing big girls, go and tell your father. 'What will happen? said Wee Willie Winkie, who firmly believed that his father was omnipotent. 'I shall get into trouble, said Coppy, playing his trump card with an appealing look at the holder of the ace.
De debbil come out here at night, and walk about; and he was much scandalised when the young gentleman rejoined that the chance of such a sight would be an additional reason for bivouacking there. So we walked out upon the mud, which was mostly hard enough, past shallow pools of brackish water, smelling of asphalt, toward a group of little mud-volcanoes on the farther side.
Waverley made no commentary, therefore, on the manner of the treatment, but rewarded the professor of medicine with a liberality beyond the utmost conception of his wildest hopes. He uttered on the occasion so many incoherent blessings in Gaelic and English that Mac-Ivor, rather scandalised at the excess of his acknowledgments, cut them short by exclaiming, Ceud mile mhalloich ort! i.e.
Mischievous Clive was in his element, and played the part with such tremendous zeal that the audience, who had not yet grasped his youth and his sex, watched his manoeuvres breathlessly, and several old ladies looked quite scandalised and disapproving.
"I think she might at least have waited till the funeral was over," said Amanda in a scandalised voice. "It's her own funeral, you know," said Sir Lulworth; "it's a nice point in etiquette how far one ought to show respect to one's own mortal remains."
'I was very much scandalised; and I shouldn't be here now telling you my story if it hadn't been for your mother. 'My mother! The old lady rather grimly enjoyed his confusion. 'Yes, Mr Lawford, your mother.
What if I thought Cromwell and Pierre Leroux infinitely more faithful men in their way, and better members of the "Invisible Church," than the torturer-pedant Laud, or the facing bothways Protestant-Manichee Taylor? It was lucky for the life of young Love that the discussion went no further: Argemone was becoming scandalised beyond all measure. But, happily, the colonel interposed,
The "saucy merchant, that was so full of his ropery," with his ridicule of the "stale" practice of Lenten fasting and abstinence, his contempt for "a Lenten pie," and his preference for a flesh diet as "very good meat in Lent," is clearly a disciple of Calvin; and the impotence of the Nurse, however scandalised at the nakedness of his ribald profanity, to protect herself against it by appeal to reason or tradition, is dwelt upon with an emphasis sufficient to indicate the secret tendency of the poet's own sympathies and convictions.
"Then I'll teach them," cried the lively Mrs. Rothesay: "I long to show them a quadrille even that new dance that all the world is shocked at Oh! I should dearly like a waltz." Mrs. Jacob Johnson was scandalised at first, but there was something in Sybilla to which she could not say nay, nobody ever could. The matter was decided by Mrs.
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