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Here he could find his way blindfold; and freed from the strain of geographical uncertainty, his mind returned to Bosinney's trouble. Down the long avenue of his man-about-town experience, bursting, as it were, through a smirch of doubtful amours, there stalked to him a memory of his youth.
But by-and-by it may all be used to smirch or brighten unjustly some one's character. Suppose a man in the Army of the Potomac had recorded daily all his opinions of men and events. Reading it over now, with more light and a juster knowledge of character and of measures, is it not probable that he would find it a tissue of misconceptions?
"I fear that the sludge and slime will sully your bright armour and smirch your plumes, for it will be difficult to hold a footing on those muddy banks." "It were best for you to yield, Sir Archibald Forbes, without giving us the trouble of making our way across your moat.
"I will cut off my hair, and put on boy's clothes, and smirch myself brown with walnut leaves; and I will go. I can talk their French tongue. I know their French ways; and as for a story to cover my journey and my doings, trust a woman's wit to invent that." They looked at her, with delight in her courage, but with doubt.
"I wish to make several things clear," he said. "According to all civil and moral law, I am an absolutely undivorceable man. There is only one ground for divorce in this state. To clear the decks for you and Lucy, I should have to smirch myself and take a black eye." "But the people who count always understand these things."
When we consider what system or lack of system of land laws and land entries obtained in Watauga and such: primitive communities when a patch of corn sealed a right and claims were made by notching trees with tomahawks we may imagine that a file from the land office might appear easily enough to smirch a landholder's integrity.
By her own deed she had barred out help and put counsel far from her. She had known the punishment would not be long in coming, when, for the sake of Richard's daughter, she had lied to Richard's friend. Now she knew, poor, noble, suffering soul, that it would have been wiser to have saved her spotless garment from the smirch by telling him the truth.
And that he, that he yes, it seemed to sweep upon him in a sudden, overmastering surge, the realization that the delight and joy of her companionship through the month that was gone was love that leaped now into fierce, jealous flame, maddened at a breath that would smirch her in the eyes of others that he should be the cause of it!
Isn't there one of you that can be absolutely true? Isn't there one that won't smirch her soul and kill the faith of those that love her for some moment's excitement, for gold to gratify a vanity, or to have a wider sweep to her skirts? Vain, vain, vain and dishonourable, essentially dishonourable.
It would be another smirch for him, and such a deep one as to obscure him and his chances there forever. Joan knew it. In her generosity, her interest for his future, she wanted her part in it to remain unknown. "You must promise me, John," she said. "I'll never come to take another lesson unless you promise me." "I promise you, God bless you, Joan!" said he.
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