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I hope you take into consideration the fact that he might have shot me! He thought he had a man at the end of his gun when he popped away at the mirror." "I'm ashamed that I find it all so funny. Shooting any one can't really be a pleasant performance for a gentleman of your up-bringing; and yet you speak of it now as though it were only a trifling incident of the day's work.
The little daughter, under the careful up-bringing of an old grand-aunt, developed a remarkable aptitude for rural affairs.
Altogether, the better-class women here are far more wideawake and civilized than those of the Neapolitan province; a result of their stern patriarchal up-bringing and of their possessing more or less sensible husbands. Thus fortified, I strolled about the streets.
Vallincourt had been brought up on severely conventional lines, reared in the narrow tenets of a family whose salient characteristics were an overweening pride of race and a religious zeal amounting almost to fanaticism, while Diane had had no up-bringing worth speaking of. As for religious views, she hadn't any.
The vast improvements that have since taken place in the theory and the art of education all over Europe, and of which he has the honour of being the first and most widely influential promoter, may all be traced to the spread of this wise principle, and its adoption in various forms. The change in the up-bringing of the young exactly corresponds to the change in the treatment of the insane.
Nobody will be able to throw any of your villainies in my teeth; nobody will be able to point at you and say, 'Here goes a scoundrel of Lingard's up-bringing. You are buried here." "And you think that I will stay . . . that I will submit?" exclaimed Willems, as if he had suddenly recovered the power of speech. "You needn't stay here on this spot," said Lingard, drily.
It is born in them; and by their simple, austere up-bringing, with their profession ever in view, they become thoroughly imbued with it. But there is a danger that in such a mental atmosphere their range of observation may be so restricted that they cannot view the life of the world around them with intelligence or comprehension.
"I am interested very much in your story," said Elsie. "And so am I," said Jane. "I know not where fortune, or rather, as you more properly call it, Providence may send us; and your experience has a peculiar fascination to me. Do, pray, go on." "Well, as I was saying, it was a rough place, and he was a gentleman in his up-bringing and in many of his ways.
The Governor's tale of his love affair with a bishop's daughter he had discounted heavily; it was hardly possible that any respectable woman would dine in the house. The Governor, with his usual quick perception, noted his companion's displeasure. "Your qualms and your concern for the proprieties are creditable to your up-bringing.
The bishop groaned and sat down helplessly in his chair. 'It is incredible, he said. 'How can you, with your refined tastes and up-bringing, love this this ? Well, I shall not call her names. No doubt Miss Mosk is well enough in her way, but she is not a proper wife for my son. 'Our hearts are not always under control, father. 'They should be, Gabriel.
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