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I have been threatened myself with being rid on a rail and tarred when the devil stirred up the people against my preaching, but the Lord mercifully preserved me. 'Tis a shameful practice, but I hear it was done to these men to intimidate them from the more violent crimes which they had conspired to commit.
The New York and Vermont frontiers became the scene of widespread illegal trade, the shameful effects of which upon the patriotism of the inhabitants were conspicuous in the following war. A gentleman returning from Canada in January, 1809, reported that he had counted seven hundred sleighs, going and returning between Montreal and Vermont. This on one line only.
And then, reading the other's face, he went on, in a tone of quiet certainty. "Yes, you have exposed yourself. Then, sir, it was not virtue that you had; it was good fortune. That is one of the things which exasperate me the most that term 'shameful disease' which you have just used.
"I mean that it is a piece of shameful trickery. They might as well waylay Mr. Fogg and put his money in their pockets!" "That's just what we count on doing." "It's a conspiracy, then," cried Passepartout, who became more and more excited as the liquor mounted in his head, for he drank without perceiving it. "A real conspiracy! And gentlemen, too. Bah!" Fix began to be puzzled.
I could hardly believe that it was Bella. And Jim put both his arms around her and almost cried, too, and looked nauseatingly happy with the eye he turned to Bella, and scared to death out of the one he kept on Aunt Selina. She turned on me, as of course I knew she would. "That," she said, pointing at Jim and Bella, "that shameful picture is due to your own indifference.
His bodily sufferings were intense, but the agony of his mind was even greater; he had obtained the crown which now pressed so heavily on his head, by shameful treacherous means. The apparition of his father dying in misery appeared to him, and no words of the flatterers at his bed-side could still the voice of his conscience.
"But how pale and agitated you are, my boy!" said the marshal's father, looking round with astonishment. "What is the matter?" "What is the matter?" cried Dagobert, in despair, as he approached the foreman. "The matter is that they would rob your granddaughters, and that I have brought them from the depths of Siberia only to witness this shameful deed!"
Beckwith, a man with all the appearances of the worst kind of drunkard, very far advanced upon his shameful way to death. 'Slinkton is not come yet, said this creature, staggering up when I went in; 'I'll call him. Halloa! Julius Caesar!
I could not believe when we were arrived at the New Field, and I was assisted from my chair in the midst of that hooting and jeering throng, which even the soldiers and the threatening gestures of the parson and my brother served but little to restrain that I was myself, and still more so, when I was at last seated in that shameful instrument, the stocks.
Piers is a good fellow, and will understand. Voila!" Piers kept silence. "Tell me, my dear boy," pursued the other. "Alexander of course paid that little sum he owed you?" "He too has preferred to remain my banker." "Now I call that very shameful!" burst out Daniel. "No, that's too bad!" "How did you know he owed me money?" inquired Piers. "How?
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