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Mary, York, after being heartily scandalised by her habits, were far from sorry to have a good excuse for despatching her to their outlying cell, where, as they observed, she would know how to show a good face in case the Armstrongs came over the Border.
It occurred to me that you might have gone there as a missionary, and that the savages had converted you instead of you converting the savages. I'm sure I beg your pardon. And have you ever set fire to a bishop?" "Austin! Austin!" came still more faintly from Aunt Charlotte. The vicar, scandalised at first, was now in convulsions of silent laughter.
Pierre's fraternal, soul filled with pity at the sight. Ah! yes, it was necessary to demolish all those pestilential districts where the populace had wallowed for centuries as in a poisonous gaol! He was for demolition and sanitary improvement, even if old Rome were killed and artists scandalised.
It was, I remember, a hot dry summer, favourable to contemplative life out of doors. And Mrs Fyne was scandalised. Women don't understand the force of a contemplative temperament. It simply shocks them. They feel instinctively that it is the one which escapes best the domination of feminine influences.
Certainly a little wave of scandalised satisfaction rippled all over her. “Oh, really!” she cried, “I don’t know which of you is the worst offender.” All this time, as may be imagined, Mr Bunker had been in a state of high mystification at his friend’s unusual adroitness. “How the deuce did he get hold of her?” he said to himself. In the next pause the Baron solved the riddle.
Some of Pascal’s more religious admirers have even been scandalised by it, and have tried to show that it could not refer to the author of the ‘Pensées.’ M. Cousin and other parties have emphasised it too much. There seems no reason to doubt that the anecdote relates to the younger Pascal—it cannot reasonably be supposed to relate to his father.
The fat man looked scandalised, and the first speaker waved the subject aside as unworthy of attention. "Such tales are for women and monks," he said impatiently. "But the business has its serious side. I tell you we are being hurried to our ruin. Here's this matter of draining the marshes at Pontesordo. Who's to pay for that? The class that profits by it? Not by a long way.
Run home at once. Gillian, much scandalised, broke out 'It is very naughty. At home, he would be sent to bed at once. 'I am not Mrs. Halfpenny, Gillian, said Aunt Jane coldly. 'Jane has a soft spot for inventions, for Maurice's sake, said her sister. 'I can't confound ingenuity and enterprise with wanton mischief, or crush it out for want of sympathy, said Miss Mohun.
But also she was going to marry into a sphere far out of the Masons' ken; and she had made it very plain that Hubert and the likes of Hubert were not good enough for her. Polly was scandalised on religion's account; but also a little jealous and sore, in a natural feminine way, on her own; the more so as Mr.
The grand almoner, in concert with the Archbishop, composed this formula, pronounced in presence of the viaticum: "Although the King owes an account of his conduct to none but God, he declares his repentance at having scandalised his subjects, and is desirous to live solely for the maintenance of religion and the happiness of his people."
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