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"We could not possibly foresee although I should like to foresee how to get out of it all without scandalizing Jane." "Trust one step to lead to the next," said Shirley, and that sounded like a proverb of Jane's. "But I haven't decided to go?" "Oh, yes, you have, Kitten. Wait until you see the old fairy godmother unload her pumpkin. Or did she carry the dress on a broomstick? I forget the details.
He recalled the words of one of those inhabitants of Gibraltar who had accompanied him on Royal Street, a strange mixture of Andalusian sluggishness and British apathy. "Take my word for it, friend, the chief Rabbi and those of the synagogue have a hand in this. You were scandalizing them; everybody saw you making love in public. You don't realize how important one of these fellows is.
At last, in despair, the Consistory determined to send a deputation to remonstrate with M. de Lesdigiueres on the warm welcome he was giving the holy Bishop, and on his own behaviour in scandalizing the whole Protestant party by attending Blessed Francis' sermons.
I am well aware that in spite of my warning that I am attempting here to give a logical form to a system of a-logical feelings, I shall be scandalizing not a few of my readers in speaking of a God who suffers, and in applying to God Himself, as God, the passion of Christ. The God of so-called rational theology excludes in effect all suffering.
'The woman's father is dead, I hear, Colonel Halkett remarked. 'But he has not been there? 'How can I tell? He's anywhere, wherever his passions whisk him. 'No! 'I say, yes. And if he has money, we shall see him going sky-high and scattering it in sparks, not merely spending; I mean living immorally, infidelizing, republicanizing, scandalizing his class and his country.
Do you think I am a fool? Do you think I'd recommend you to that old lady, when you are on the verge of scandalizing both her and myself? Not much not much, sir; and I'll sue you for slander if you ever hint such a thing; and I'll get judgment, too, and " "Yes," I interrupted, "and I suppose you would attach my dozen bottles of Incomprehensible Compound to satisfy the judgment."
A youth of the name of Julien, particularly in the confidence of Robespierre, was then sent to Bourdeaux, not officially as his successor, but as a spy, to collect information concerning him, as well as to watch the operations of other missionaries, and prevent their imitating Tallien's schemes of personal advantage, at the expence of scandalizing the republic by an appearance of lenity.
She proposed to go just as she was, and send Fadette back for all her belongings. "Aileen," he pleaded, determined to have his way, "I think you're very foolish. Really I do. There is no occasion for all this none in the world. Here you are talking at the top of your voice, scandalizing the whole neighborhood, fighting, leaving the house. It's abominable. I don't want you to do it.
In short, he concludes, I am the man who, when he finds himself in a critical position and cannot teach truth except by suiting one worthy person and scandalizing ten thousand fools, chooses to say the truth for the benefit of the one without regard for the abuse of the great majority.
In all, during that day and the forenoon of the next, three long rehearsals took place. Michael's troubles ceased for the time being. At command, he silently got on the chair and silently sat there. "Which shows, dearest, what a bit of the stick will do," Davis bragged to his wife. Nor did the pair of them dream of the scandalizing part Michael was going to play in their first performance.
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