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I can imagine his chagrin at the waste of all his labours, expense to the Indian Government, etc. etc., due to the caprice of this apparently frivolous and not quite courteous young hopeful. Indeed, the Crown Prince, though a popular young fellow enough, was the source of trouble and tribulation to his hosts, breaking conventions and scandalizing Society by his disregard of its usages.
He even went so far as to invite the Englisher to his own cabin, thereby greatly scandalizing his housekeeper a maiden sister of fifty-two, who had forestalled fate by declaring for the shelf at forty-nine. "What'll he be doing here?" the maiden demanded, indicating Timmins with accusatory finger on the occasion of his first visit.
The report closed with a protest against the tendency, on the part of the Government, to resort to espionage and inquisitorial measures, in endeavouring to rid the Province of those obnoxious to the ruling faction, and in attempting to undermine the independence of the Legislature by scandalizing its members and awing them into political subserviency.
The matrons now retired also, giving the page to understand that he was on no account to stir from the convent, or to show himself at the windows, the Abbess assigning as a reason, the readiness with which the rude heretics caught at every occasion of scandalizing the religious orders. "This is worse than the rigour of Mr.
Hear me, if you please! To go with the world, I have as good a right to suppose the worst of an attractive lady in that situation as you regarding my ward: better warrant for scandalizing, I think; to go with the world. But now Cecil checked him, ejaculating, 'Thank you, Dr. Shrapnel; I thank you most cordially, with a shining smile. 'Stay, sir! no more. I take my leave of you.
The plain man's religious demands upon the poet are really not excessive, yet the poet, from the romantic period onward, has taken delight in scandalizing him. In the eighteenth century poets seem not to have been averse to placating their enemies by publishing their attendance upon the appointed means of grace.
And just then, at the appointed hour, his star his evil star gave him the means of doing so. He was sitting in the restaurant of the theater in a group of musicians belonging to the orchestra whom he was scandalizing by his artistic judgments. They were not all of the same opinion: but they were all ruffled by the freedom of his language.
She knew they were slowly sinking towards bankruptcy, and it was a consolation to her to imagine others in the same position. She saw other people's defects as if through a microscope. Foolish woman. Even as thou art scandalizing others, thine own nature is being abased, whilst those whom thou dost backbite remain the same. One glance at the daughter. She was taller and fairer than her mother.
Fanny, half-laughing half-weeping, hid her head in her friend's bosom, and embraced her tightly; and then they kissed each other, and laughed at the facility with which they also had fallen into the scandalizing ways of the world. Carriage after carriage rumbled into the courtyard of Kárpáthy Castle.
The poet's youthful zest in scandalizing the orthodox is likely, however, to be early outgrown. As the difficulties in the way of his finding a God worthy of his adoration become manifest to him, it may be, indeed, with a sigh that he turns from the conventional religion in which so many men find certitude and place.
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