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"It sounds like a tavern brawl," said the Bishop, shaking his head dubiously "or a street fight. So unlike you, Walden! What was it all about?" "The fellow was slandering a woman," replied Walden, hotly "Poisoning her name with his foul tongue, and polluting it by his mere utterance contemptible brute! I should like to have horsewhipped him "
Only the wicked become famous, the good are forgotten or laughed to scorn, and thus history, like philosophy, is for ever slandering mankind. Moreover, it is inevitable that the facts described in history should not give an exact picture of what really happened; they are transformed in the brain of the historian, they are moulded by his interests and coloured by his prejudices.
But it was reserved for the nineteenth century to witness the strange spectacle of men, calling themselves Irishmen and Catholics, deliberately slandering and assailing in concord with a non-Catholic political leader the consecrated pastors and masters of the Church in Ireland.
Grady knew that there were certain wicked men, hating and slandering religion, and luring millions of souls into hell; they were called Socialists, or Anarchists, and must obviously be emissaries of Satan, so it was God's work to root them out and destroy them.
"I think, mademoiselle," he began, "that you have been slandering yourself gratuitously." "Oh, no! I swear it to you," she replied; "and, if mamma had not happened in, you would have heard much more. But that was not an answer." And, as M. de Tregars said nothing, she turned towards the baroness, "Ah, ah! you see," she said.
I'm not sorry you have found it out, for in any case I had meant to make a clean breast of it before we parted," he hesitated then looked up frankly "I would rather you spoke no more of it, Harry! I've made my confession. I admit I nearly struck Leveson for slandering an innocent and defenseless woman, and I believe you'll forgive me for that.
"Because it's such an inconvenient vice to those that have anything to lose," said Miss Christie. "Yes, that's just it, ma'am. You see the vices and virtues have got overhauled again, and sorted differently to suit our convenience. Stealing's no worse probly in the eyes of our Maker than lying and slandering; not so bad, mayhap, as a deep sweer.
Sponge having left Laverick Wells, had, perhaps, led him a little astray with his tongue slandering an absent man being generally thought a pretty safe game; it now seemed Mr. Waffles was all wrong, and might have had his money back if he had not been in such a hurry to part with the horse.
But if I dare to answer that I removed Motley from the highest considerations of duty as an executive; if I presume to say that he made a mistake in his office which made him no longer useful to the country; if Fish has the temerity to hint that Sumner's temper was so unfortunate that business relations with him became impossible, we are slandering the dead." "Nothing but Mortimer."
'A fine demonstration of the rule of love, to go about the world slandering your sister! 'To go about the world! Oh! Claude, it was only Robert, one of ourselves, and Alethea, to whom I tell everything. 'So much the worse. I always rejoiced that you had no foolish young lady friend to make missish confidences to.
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