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But where the supreme authority, not content with winking at the rapacity of its inferior instruments, is so shameless and corrupt as openly to give bounties and premiums for disobedience to its laws, when it will not trust to the activity of avarice in the pursuit of its own gains, when it secures public robbery by all the careful jealousy and attention with which it ought to protect property from such violence, the commonwealth then is become totally perverted from its purposes; neither God nor man will long endure it; nor will it long endure itself.

The winter was coming to a close, a rotten winter, as they say in the country, damp and mild. The abbe called again some days later and hinted mysteriously at one of those shameless intrigues between persons whose conduct should be irreproachable. It was the duty, he said, of those who were aware of the facts to use every means to bring it to an end.

"A pretty fool and baby who was my cousin married a reprobate, Jeof Wildairs, and this is his daughter and is a shameless baggage. Egad! you must have seen her on the hunting-field when you were with us riding in coat and breeches and with her mane of hair looped under her hat."

You are clever. You know the customs of these English. You have often told me how you did as you wished with the white women in England." "That is very different. It is easy there," and Chunerbutty smiled at pleasant memories. "There the women are shameless, and they prefer us to their own colour. And the men are not jealous. They are proud that their daughters and sisters should know us."

"Did you ever see anything quite so shameless as the way he fooled that poor little Grassini woman?" "About the ballet-girl, you mean?" "Yes, he persuaded her the girl was going to be the lion of the season. Signora Grassini would do anything for a celebrity."

I will now say something about the man who first taught the Emperor to traffic in the administration of justice. His name was Leo; he was a native of Cilicia, and passionately eager to enrich himself. He was the most utterly shameless of flatterers, and most apt in ingratiating himself with the ignorant, and with the Emperor, whose folly he made use of in order to ruin his subjects.

The Duchess was determined that her daughter, from the earliest possible moment, should be prepared for her high station in a way that would commend itself to the most respectable; her good, plain, thrifty German mind recoiled with horror and amazement from the shameless junketings at Carlton House; Drina should never be allowed to forget for a moment the virtues of simplicity, regularity, propriety, and devotion.

Her movement as she rose was almost violent, she could not hold herself still, and her face was horribly wet with shameless, unconcealable tears. Shameless she felt them indecent a sort of nudity of the soul. If it had been a servant who had intruded, or if it had been Palliser it would have been intolerable enough.

A horrible story is told by the Bourgeois de Paris, whose contemporary journal is one of the authorities for this period, that "the fire was drawn aside" in order that Jeanne's form, with all its clothing burned away, should be visible by one last act of shameless insult to the crowd.

And women, too or creatures that pass for such having the bodies of women and the habits of ruffians; harpies all claws and teeth and greed bold desperate shameless incapable of good. They, too, are here. They dart hither and thither; they swarm they dance they howl they chatter they quarrel and battle, like carrion-vultures, over the spoils. Civilization is gone, and all the devils are loose!