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Louis, with mixed penitence and effrontery, reminded him that he could not change the descent of the title; promised amendment; declared that he had done only as do other young men of fortune; and hinted that the tutor was a strait-laced ass. The father and the son returned together to Boxall Hill, and three months afterwards Mr Scatcherd set up for himself in London.
The Pharisee conceived that his duty in regard to publicans and sinners was to keep as far from them as he could, and his strait-laced self-righteousness had never dreamed of going to them with an open heart, and trying to win them to a better life. Many so-called followers of Jesus still take that attitude.
But, of course, it was the business of the spies to blacken the character of Charles; and there can be little doubt that, in spite of his poverty and loose morals, he was well liked by the citizens of Bruges, who, notwithstanding a great deal of outward decorum, have at no time been very strait-laced.
I could see only the gloomy strait-laced viceroy, his heart aflame with the most passionate love for the beautiful novice, who, while she beseeches him to pardon her brother condemned to death for illicit love, at the same time kindles the most dangerous fire in the stubborn Puritan's breast by infecting him with the lovely warmth of her human emotion.
"Marry this," answered his companion, "that there be some among your friends who do not choose to starve while there are pistoles to be won by a brave action. Hark ye, captain, are you well affected or no? You need have no fear, sir, in telling me. I am not strait-laced, and I can keep counsel. "Dost thou call to mind a certain evening in London when you and Mr.
There was an unwontedly hard note in Magda's voice as she detailed the afternoon's events, and Gillian glanced at her sharply. "I don't understand. Was he a strait-laced prig who disapproved of dancing, do you mean?" "Nothing of the sort. He had a most comprehensive appreciation of the art of dancing. His disapproval was entirely concentrated on me personally."
Besides, she had always been receptive rather than demonstrative with him. "We'll be married again, and do the gossips out of a sensation," he said. Though she was not looking at him, his eyes shifted from her face as he added in a voice which at another time she might have thought strained: "Then, too, your father and mother and mine are so strait-laced it'd give 'em a terrible jar to find out.
Although the best of wives and mothers, she had some charity for her neighbours. Needing herself no indulgence, she could be indulgent; and would by no means favour that strait-laced morality that would constrain the innocent play of the social body. She was accomplished, well read, and had a lively fancy.
"What in the world are we to do? Is there a train anywhere near?" "I'm afraid not, but there is a decent enough inn close by." "An inn isn't much use to me." She paused, then added solemnly: "I've got a strait-laced brother." Hal's voice was rather deep and rich for a woman, and it had a dangerous allurement in the darkness.
I said that it was monstrous. Judith retorted that I had brought the calumny upon myself. "But what can I do?" I asked. "Board her out with a suburban family, as you should have done from the first. Even I, who am not strait-laced, consider it highly improper for you to have her alone with you in the house." "My dear," said I, "there is Antoinette." "Tush" or something like it said Judith.
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