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Alfieri leaped to his feet. His voice rose to a cracked falsetto. "You hear, you hear!" was his cry. "She robbed me of the papyrus, yet boasts of it. She is a thief, self-confessed." Mrs. Haxton also sprang up. Her physical dread of the man had yielded to the triumph of having cornered him. "Truly I hope his Excellency hears," she said.
It was Squire Pettijohn, forgetful of his dire threat against any son of man who dared to "tramp" God's earth, unwarranted. Squire Pettijohn, with head bowed, heart humbled, who had always branded another man's son as "thief," only to find that self-confessed offender the child of his own home. Nobody sought to hinder him.
Now Margaret MacLean knew well enough that he would never have discovered the prettiness of anything by himself not in a century of springtimes, and she sensed the truth. "Did she decorate you?" she inquired, with an irritating little curl of her lips. The Senior Surgeon's self-confessed blush lent speed to her tongue. "I think I might be privileged to ask what it was for.
He might have been true and faithful and he might have been with Christ to-day in glory; instead, he is in hell, a self-confessed murderer, with the clinking of the thirty pieces of silver to condemn him, and his awful conscience constantly to accuse him.
As she paused the hollow-eyed men shuffled their feet but none of them spoke. They had given generously, prodigally even, of their effort and it had not been for hire. Yet under the burning appeal of her eyes they flushed as though they had been self-confessed malingerers. "But as fer me," went on Alexander, "I've got ter git ter work."
And, on the other hand, the people who went on making the best of uncongenial drudgery, or in any way subjected their individualities to what old-fashioned people called duty, were in our eyes contemptible poltroons. It was the same in politics and religion. To be loyal to a party or obedient to a Church was to stand self-confessed a fool or a hypocrite.
"What more do you want? The fellow is a self-confessed humbug. We have only to return home and report him as the brazen imposter that he is." "Invisible ink!" I suggested. "I don't think!" said Lord Roxton, holding the paper to the light. "No, young fellah my lad, there is no use deceiving yourself. I'll go bail for it that nothing has ever been written upon this paper."
"Madam," Francis replied, "I am not proud of having saved the life of a self-confessed murderer, even though that man may be your husband." Hilditch was laughing softly to himself as he escorted his departing guest to the door. "You have a quaint sense of humour," Francis remarked. "Forgive me," Oliver Hilditch begged, "but your last few words rather appealed to me.
Only Danny was neither a tyro nor a humbug, and had he not been a lawbreaker the world would have been to some extent the loser. Yet by all the canons of ethics and justice it was most improper for Mr. Tutt to hurry off to the Tombs and bail out old Danny Lowry, a self-confessed lawbreaker, giving his own bond and the house on Twenty-third Street as security.
She was tall, with a head scarcely large enough for her body. She had a nice snub nose which in another woman might have been irresistible. She possessed very little physical charm, and showed very little taste in her neat, prim frocks. Not merely had she a masculine mind, but she was somewhat hard, a self-confessed egoist.
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