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It entirely lacked that suggestion of austere sweetness which had made it so difficult to reconcile his smirched reputation with the man himself. "What is it, Garth?" Instinctively Miles slipped into the more familiar appellation. Trent looked at him blankly. It seemed as though he had not heard the question, or, at any rate, had not taken in its meaning.
De Folligny's appearance at Verneuil had made Markham thoughtful, but Olga's intrusion now had paraphrased their pastoral lyric into unworthy prose. Parnassus wept with them, but no amount of weeping could destroy the ugly doggerel as Olga had written it. Their idyl was smirched, the fair robe of Euterpe was trialing in the dust. But it was too late for reproaches now.
Unwillingly, with an imagination that fain would reject the stain, he has injured, he has insulted the love that has now come to him, the most precious thing on earth, because he has not known how to do otherwise; because all the associations of passion have been to him degraded, smirched, treated frivolously in the past. It is true of men; it is also true of women.
"It is the light thrown upon the whole quality of his love of that kind of love. The passion of it makes it selfish selfish to the degree of being utterly regardless of right and wrong, and careless of the welfare of its unfortunate object. My fair name would have been smirched; my honour dragged in the mire; my present, blighted; my future, ruined; but what did he care?
"Like a wolf if there was a woman around the house " And a man like that was coming back, perhaps when the darkness had let down over that still valley, expecting her to say that she had killed the hope of her dearest friend to shield herself from his smirched and guilty hand! Morning found Agnes only the more firmly determined to bear her troubles alone. Smith came by early.
Not only has no tittle of evidence been produced, involving his connivance at such a scheme, but the Assembly itself, a few months later, unwittingly furnished to posterity the most conclusive proof that no man in that body could have believed him to be smirched with even the suggestion of so horrid a crime.
If not, it was strange that she should have been left free enough apparently to see Tristan whenever she wished, and Mark's expostulations at the end of the act seem rather unwarranted in the mouth of a man whose honour, in the Divorce Court sense, has not been smirched; yet, on the other hand, it is unlikely that a legendary King, with the bride in his palace, would wait so long for the marriage as to allow the many pretty incidents mentioned by Brangaena to happen.
"No; for you forget Philip's cowardice and weakness. But he was not smirched with society's remedy for wrong-doing. No; even if I found John had come out of the the detail, strong and purified, I know, as God hears me, I should always, when most he needed me, see the prisoner instead of him. Oh! Oh! Oh!" She closed her eyes, and the great tears were pressed from under the quivering lids.
A spider had spun a web above one of this god's bare shoulders; it glinted in a chance ray of direct sunlight which had entered through a tear in the curtain overhead. Above me a staging held a kitchen chair, some fire pails, and several pots whose sides were smirched with the colors they contained. The only sign of human life was the faint warm odor of pipe smoke.
Hitherto I had been borne up by the thought that my ill deed had saved her future, but now, when I learned that I had been too late, and that my poor love was smirched with that man's sin, I fled away with the sense of my useless guilt upon me more heavily than I could bear. Ah! sir, you that have not done such a sin don't know what it is to carry it with you.
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