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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Let the little dogs howl and snarl," Jennie said. "What do we care?" Yet the slur upon her identity could always hurt Nancy Nelson. Many a night, after Jennie was sound asleep in her bed, Nancy bedewed her pillow with tears. She reviewed at these times all the important incidents in her short life. The few brief notes that Mr. Gordon had sent to her she treasured carefully.
And their happiness in their love seemed to imply a disagreeable slur on those who would have liked to feel the same and could not and they felt a prick of conscience. "Mark my words, Alexander will not come," said the old princess. That evening they were expecting Stepan Arkadyevitch to come down by train, and the old prince had written that possibly he might come too.
He set his thin lips tight and resolved that he would stand no nonsense of this sort after they were married. If she wanted to flirt it would have to be with some one in their own set. The clubman was too wise to voice his objections now except by an occasional slur. But he found it necessary sometimes to put a curb on his temper. The thing was outrageous damnably bad form.
I think my primary object in giving Rosalind money to go home this morning was to save the college from any open slur being cast upon it." Miss Heath's face had grown very pale while Maggie was speaking. She was quite silent for a moment or two after the story was finished; then, going up to Miss Oliphant, she took her hand and kissed her. "On the whole, my dear," she said, "I am obliged to you.
And now, as Garthwaite turned the lantern, they saw that on this soft carpet there was a great slur the murderer had evidently dragged his victim some yards across the pine needles before depositing him behind the rock.
That is true, but those who advocate this policy slur over many difficulties, and the relative power of endurance of both parties. They do not, I think, take into account the immense power in the hands of those who uphold the present system. Those who might be expected to strike are not at least in Ireland a majority of the population.
'He's foaming again! said the colonel, and was only ultra-pictorial. 'Before breakfast! was a further slur on Beauchamp. Mr. Romfrey was elevated by the extraordinary comicality of the notion of the proposed apology to heights of humour beyond laughter, whence we see the unbounded capacity of the general man for folly, and rather commiserate than deride him. He was quite untroubled.
The ex-President knew what he meant; even in his despondency he resented the implied slur on his good faith. "You cannot examine the boat until darkness sets in," he said. "Then you will find out how frail a foundation you are building on. It is absolutely ridiculous to assume that she can be made seaworthy. Her occupants would be drowned before they were clear of the islands."
So many of the girls of their acquaintance had brothers or cousins who were joining the army, that they would have felt it as something like a slur upon the family name had Vincent remained behind. On the following morning Vincent rode over and saw Mr. Ashley, who had just; received his commission as major. He was cordially received. "Mrs.
He hates his brother who is the head of the family and he hates his brother's wife for family reasons which it is not necessary to waste time in telling you. I knew him in Constantinople. Underneath I believe he hates the English there is a slur on him." "I have already met him," and Harietta's eyes sparkled. "I hate the wife also for my own reasons yes how can I help you with this?"
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