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"I know all about it, at least I know something about it. I heard you and Marly Turner " "Oh, pshaw! you little blue-eyed goose! You only think it's shocking, because you're so prim and straight-laced! I'll tell Uncle Jeff, myself, and I'll tell him right now!" "All right, Alicia," and Dolly drew a big sigh of relief.
"You were always one of the straight-laced sort, Joyce," cried Wilson, laughing good-humoredly. "But now that I have had my say out, I shall stop; and you need not fear I shall be such a simpleton as to go prattling of this kind of thing to the servants." Now just fancy this conversation penetrating to Lady Isabel! She heard every word.
In Greece, she was a goddess; in Rome, a hussy; in England, a sprightly dame; now, a straight-laced Priscilla. But you have a recruit, I see?" "You mean Saint-Prosper?" "Yes, and I can hardly blame him under the circumstances!" murmured the land baron, at the same time glancing around as though seeking some one. "Circumstances! What circumstances?" demanded the manager.
"I suppose you squared the constable, Jack," said Mr. M'Coy. Mr. Power did not relish the use of his Christian name. He was not straight-laced, but he could not forget that Mr. M'Coy had recently made a crusade in search of valises and portmanteaus to enable Mrs. M'Coy to fulfil imaginary engagements in the country.
"Well," broke in Rosamond, "it was always said that our young officers got into much less mischief than where there was a straight-laced colonel, who didn't go along with them to give them a tone." "That I quite believe. I remember, too, the intense and breathless sense of excitement in the hush and suspense of the multitude, and the sweeping by of the animals "
He could pull off a hunting accident that would fool the world. Trust him not to bungle it. Next day would be the day, in the woods above Sycamore Creek. Grandfather Jonathan Forrest, the straight-laced Puritan, had died of a hunting accident. For the first time Dick doubted that accident. Well, if it hadn't been an accident, the old fellow had done it well.
I was appointed bodyservant to the paymaster of the ship, a bucolic old Bourbon of the most pronounced aristocracy. This excused me from military and naval duty, and I was privileged to wear plain clothes. I attached myself to a small group of pietists called Plymouth Brethren, orthodox theologians, literalists in interpretation of the Scriptures and exceedingly straight-laced in their morality.
Was it part of his plan to get control of the little fortune of Violet to recoup his losses? "Do you know Mrs. de Lancey?" pursued the editor. "No not yet," I answered. "I was just wondering what sort of person she is." "Oh I suppose she's all right," he answered, "but they say she's pretty straight-laced that cards and all sorts of dissipation are an obsession with her."
He has taken a violent prejudice against the new rector, for no reason I can think of. He is a good fellow, the rector, I mean, and not too straight-laced to smoke a cigar, and he knows a fine horse when he sees one, and preaches splendid sermons. I think I shall go and encourage him." He did not urge Jack to accompany him, nor would Jack have done so if he had.
The second was Captain L.M. Goldsborough, a man of stalwart height and proportions and a presence that ennobled command; learned and accomplished, yet gruff and overwhelming in speech and brusque and impatient in manner, but possessing, withal, a kindly nature, and a keen sense of humor that took in a joke enjoyably, however practical; and a sympathetic discrimination that often led him to condone moral offences at which some of the straight-laced professors stood aghast.
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