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Recalling the half-confused and half-conscious ostentatious hypocrisy of the American sexton, the shameless absurdities of the English mutes and mourners, I could not help feeling, that, if it were demanded that Grief and Fate should be personified, it were better that it should be well done.
But these words, in Philoinus' half-intoxicated mood, only increased his irritation; he burst into a mocking laugh, and staggering towards the door, shouted: "Immoderate Sybarite, you call me? good! here you have your answer: Shameless slave! one can still perceive the traces of what you were in your youth. Farewell then, slave of Iadmon and Xanthus, freedwoman of Charaxus!"
Thus for awhile they stood each facing each, and to Rei it seemed as though the spirits of Death and Life looked one on another, as though the darkness and the daylight stood in woman's shape before him. "Thou art fair indeed," said the Queen, "but in this, witch, has thy beauty failed to hold him whom thou wouldst wed from the most shameless sin.
In point of fact, the king, all at once, did arrest his hurried pace; and, fixing a look full of anger upon Saint-Aignan, suddenly cried out: "And you, Saint-Aignan?" Saint-Aignan made a sign which was intended to signify, "Well, sire?" "Yes; you have been as silly as myself, I think." "Sire," stammered out Saint-Aignan. "You permitted us to be deceived by this shameless trick."
She walked into the doorway, from the elevator corridor, holding Mary's arm. As she saw the lover-like attitude of the plump Mr. Clemm, she gasped, and then burst out in righteous indignation. "Why, you shameless girl, what do you mean by such actions in the office of the Purity League? I shall tell my husband at once!" Miss Emerson sprang away from the amorous entanglement with Mr.
'Moreover, it cramps me. 'I say, began the money-lender, pursing his lips, 'that there is not one rule of right living which these te-rains do not cause us to break. We sit, for example, side by side with all castes and peoples. 'Yea, and with most outrageously shameless ones, said the wife, scowling at the Amritzar girl making eyes at the young sepoy.
Furthermore, "the shameless sentence sent from Rome" plainly showed how unlawfully it was handled, judgment being given against a party neither present in person nor by proxy.
Sooner would she go to George Bascombe from whom she not only could look for no spiritual comfort, but whose theories were so cruel against culprits of all sorts! Alas, alas! she was alone! absolutely alone in the great waste, death-eyed universe! But for a man to talk so of the tenderness of Jesus Christ, and then serve her as the curate had done it was indeed shameless!
"The whole thing is a lie, a shameless, scandalous calumny! What! my daughter-in-law, Milly, the wife of the headsman of Zeb! Step forth, you scarlet juggler! Produce the marriage certificate which can show that my daughter-in-law, Milly, was ever married to the knacker of Zeb! Your wife, forsooth, you red dog! This gentle, pious creature, who is a veritable angel!
He went out west then, and there he has stayed ever since. I suppose his life would have been very different if nothing of the kind had happened. He had a great deal of talent. I always thought I should hear of him in some way." "Well, it was a heartless, shameless thing! I don't see how you can speak of it so leniently as you do, Mrs. Bowen.
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