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And with the same motion his clenched fist was jammed with savage force against Duncan's lips, cutting short the slanderous words and sending him in a heap to the dust of the corral yard. With a cry of rage Duncan grasped for his pistol and drew it out, but the hand holding it was stamped violently into the earth, the arm bent and twisted until the fingers released the weapon.
And lately he had, at last, met Boyce personally, and his generous heart had gone out to the man's soldierly charm. "I never felt such a slanderous brute in my life as when I shook him by the hand. You know the feeling how one wants to get behind a hedge and kick oneself. Kick oneself," he repeated faintly. Then he closed his eyes and his lips contracted in pain.
Sir Gibbie Galbraith!" he repeated sneeringly, but as one reflecting. " I do vaguely recall a slanderous rumour in which a certain female connection of the family was hinted at. Yes! that's where the nickname comes from. And you think she keeps up a communication with the clown through him?" "I don't say that, sir.
Pitt, Prime-Minister though he was, in the spring of the same year, was called to order by the Speaker, for charging a member with using 'language the most false, the most malicious, and the most slanderous. Ib. p. 763. Epistles to Mr. Pope, ii. 165. See an account of him, in a sermon by the Reverend Mr. Agutter. BOSWELL. This sermon was published in 1788.
I have formed, since my interview with Miss Gwilt, a very strong opinion of my own on the subject of that lady which it is not necessary to commit to paper. Suffice it to say here that I shall have a means to propose to you for silencing the slanderous tongues of your neighbors, on the success of which I stake my professional reputation, if you will only back me by your presence and authority.
Over the water the still air carried the words distinctly to their ears. "Explain what?" It was Switzer's voice they heard, loud and truculent. "Just what you meant by the words 'slanderous falsehood' which you used to-night," replied a voice which they recognised to be Jack Romayne's. "I meant just what I said." "Did you mean to impugn my veracity, because " "Because what?"
Without this expedient, it was alleged that the revenue would have been insufficient to maintain the government. An act passed in favour of the company trading to Africa and the Indies; another for a commission concerning the public accounts; a third for punishing slanderous speeches and writings. The marquis of Athol, and the marquis of Douglas, though this last was a minor, were created dukes.
At all events, there was great wrath, which I supposed I should have shared had I not preferred bare feet not for as sound reasons as the lieutenant's. It stands to reason, however, that that imputation was slanderous, for there were no appreciative observers, unless himself. Why waste such sweetness on the desert air of a lot of heedless midshipmen?
But now, all I would say is this: Before that dreadful morning " Here she paused, shuddered, and passionately burst forth, "Allen, Allen! you did not believe that slanderous letter! God bless you! God bless you! Great-hearted, high-souled God bless you, my darling! my husband! And He will! Pray to Him humbly as I do, and He will bless you."
From John Ryan I heard of the mode of living of many of the Fenian organisers and of the Irish-American officers, very different from the slanderous statements of their "living in luxury upon the wages of Irish servant girls in America." John was of a cheery disposition, never complaining, but always sanguine, and loving to look at the bright side of things.
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