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That expressed nothing but the crude emotion of the insolent male, baulked of his desire to find himself alone on the field. It insulted her as brutally as any words by its unblushing assumption of the attitude of sex. "I must introduce myself, Miss 'Arden," he said, ignoring Rickman. "I think I have not had the pleasure " His large mouth closed reluctantly on the unfinished phrase.

The saints have you in their holy keeping!" His manner throughout had been like that of a cat playing with a mouse, and there was quite a gratified smile upon his lips as he went. Strange to say, Alfgar felt less miserable after he was gone. The wickedness of Edric seemed so great, his hypocrisy so unblushing, that in his simple faith Alfgar could not believe that he would be allowed to succeed.

We had ventured into its borders alone, had chatted with a cobbler, inspected the complete workshop on the sidewalk, priced the work, "real, artistic, high-priced jobs were worth thirty to forty kopeks," had promised to fetch our boots to be repaired with tacks and whipcord, "when they needed it," and had received an unblushing appeal for a bottle of vodka in which to drink the health of ourselves and the cobblers.

Yes, even this pitiful charge was one of the many preferred; but the severest was that which he had the unblushing effrontery to make the subject of public investigation, rather than of private redress the blow I had struck him in his own apartments. And who was his witness in this monstrous charge? your mother, Clara.

The cool assumption of unblushing superiority evinced in discussing intellectual and philosophic problems is remarkable. The Chinese, in the area I speak of, are little people with little brain: this was a specimen.

The proposed capitulation, which great mobs had been for weeks long savagely demanding at the hands of the burgomaster, was now ascribed to the burgomaster's unblushing corruption. He had obviously, they thought, been purchased by Spanish ducats to do what he had hitherto been so steadily refusing.

The worst features, perhaps, of these writers of Mercuries, were the readiness with which they apostatized, and the systematic and unblushing manner in which they sold their pens to the highest bidder, and prostituted the press to serve the purposes of their patrons. Mrs.

He then had the unblushing audacity to set this half-swallowed vodka before us in an old pepper-sauce bottle, and pretend that it was some that he had reserved since the previous fall for cases of emergency! Could human impudence go farther?

He has in turn painted landscapes as full of distinction as Monet's. The nervous vivacity of his brush, his love of rendered surfaces, of melting Boucher-like heads, and of a dazzling Watteau colour synthesis have endeared him to the discriminating." The generation that succeeded them is endeavouring to restore the balance between unblushing pantheism and the earlier mysticism.

As the son of her mother's first husband, by that husband's first wife, not even the widest stretch of courtesy could have included him at any time in the list of Mrs. Vanstone's most distant relations. Vanstone's notice, and take unblushing advantage of Mr. Vanstone's generosity.

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