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In nature, he was open, frank, and bold to make foes if he scorned a man's way as ignoble or dishonest. Wilkinson suavely set about scheming for Clark's ruin. His communication or memorial to the Virginia Assembly signed by himself and a number of his friends villifying Clark, ended Clark's chances for the commission in the Continental Army which he craved.
Caught like a rat in a trap, Elizabeth Farnshaw let her future husband study her curiously, while she deliberated and cast about for some means of getting his approval to her scheme without villifying her parents by telling the whole truth. "I'll be nearer you, and Aunt Susan's always glad to have me," she said coaxingly. It was a good bit of argument to put forth at that moment.
"There, confound you, you are at it again, you infernal civilian, slandering and abusing men who are fighting for their country. Charging them with stealing your old caboose door. Think of your disgraceful impudence, villifying men who are shedding their blood for their country by such shameless charges. "What'd they want with your old car door?
When at last she could no longer endure the villifying recital she bade the woman to leave the house, hotly refusing to give countenance to the lies she was telling. The stranger desisted only after her abject pleading had drawn from the other a bitter threat to have her ejected by the servants.
But one criticism Reed did not write was what he himself was saying of his general after the fall of Fort Washington, for which he blamed the commander-in-chief in a letter to Lee, and probably to others, for when later Reed and Arnold quarrelled, the latter boasted that "I can say I never basked in the sunshine of my general's favor, and courted him to his face, when I was at the same time treating him with the greatest disrespect and villifying his character when absent.
Henry Belton, from London, wrote me that it was beautiful and fine, but too eccentric for production in even the eccentric theatre. And Belton kept deluging me with Single Tax pamphlets. And I wrote him hot letters in reply, villifying the Single Tax theory and upholding revolutionary Socialism.
The others suffered consecutively on the 26th, 28th, and 29th March, the last of the six on the 10th June. With as little regard for truth did Foxe pen the remarkable distich, which well served his purpose of villifying Bonner in the minds of his confiding and credulous readers:
Churchill pushed back his hat, and held his gloved hand toward the fire. "Bedney, I want to see that handkerchief you found in your master's room, the day after he was murdered." "What hankchuf, Marse Alfred? I done tole everything I know, to the Crowner's inquess." "I dare say you did; but something was found afterward. I want to see it." "Who has been villifying of me?
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