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It is proper to add that Sedan, which is very straitlaced in its notions of propriety, has always been inclined to frown on Charleville, the city of laughter and levity. And then again the marriage would never have been effected but for the fact that Gilberte's uncle was Colonel de Vineuil, who it was supposed would soon be made a general.
I doubt if the most straitlaced Puritan will gainsay me when I declare that bribery from the candidates, in the form of theatres, opera-boxes, flowers, bonbons, and books, would not only be tolerated, but even, in a modest manner, encouraged having, of course, a keen eye as to the elasticity of the campaign fund.
I was a young man then, Mark, not the straitlaced lad you've always been. And the General! A bad old dog he was, went far beyond what I ever did, but for all that he had no notion of any one going any way but his own, and wanted to rein me in as tight as if he had been an epitome of all the virtues.
Lord Lydstone knew this, and knew too that his mother was right; yet he could not defend her when this woman, whom he admired still too much, indeed, for his peace of mind resented her treatment. "Your mother has behaved disgracefully to me that you must admit, Lord Lydstone." "She is an old-fashioned, old-world lady, with peculiar straitlaced notions of her own.
"Women born to be controll'd, Stoop to the forward and the bold." These lines, taken hap-hazard from Colley Cibber's "Careless Husband," contain the very spirit and essence of that old English comedy wherein the hero was nothing more than a handsome rake and the heroine well, not a straitlaced Puritan or a prude.
Do you imagine either Ethel or Doris Hayward would do the wild things you do?" "Ethel Hayward is a brick. She couldn't be straitlaced anyhow, nor narrow-minded. Doris would do anything under the sun that suited her own ends." She got up, and turned away without perceiving his frown, beginning to gather up her paraphernalia. He stopped short in his walk.
To be of real use not to be impractical, as was Cato to save his country and rise honestly in power and glory not to be too straitlaced, not over-scrupulous giving and taking a little, so that he might work to good purpose with others in harness that was his idea of duty as a Roman. To serve in accord with Pompey was the first dream of his political life, and now Pompey was in accord with Cæsar.
Do we not know how impossible it is for a man to abide strictly by the right, when the strict right is so much in advance of all around him as to appear to other eyes than his own as straitlaced, unpractical, fantastic, and almost inhuman? Brutus wanted his money sorely, and Brutus was becoming a great political power on the same side with Pompey, and Cato, and the other "optimates."
You know, by-the-way, that the story of her parentage is leaking out fast? Most people seem to know something about it." "Well, that was bound to come. Will it do her good or harm?" "Harm, for the present. A few people are straitlaced, and a good many feel they have been taken in. But, anyway, this flirtation is a mistake."
Roberto!" cried the old woman almost with a shout of triumph: "hey, only see how strangely some people will turn out! Ay, ay, the sneak in his younger days was such a straitlaced hypocrite, such a holy-seeming dog; afterward however he grew a fine spirited fellow, as they tell me. It was in the grotto then? How cunningly things fit together, and shell off till one gets at the kernel!
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