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"Monsieur, it is that my window at Amiens she overlooks the ground where these Scotch ones play the football, and then a good little puff of wind and one sees, but of course," she concluded virtuously, "I have not regarded, Monsieur." They all roared delightedly, and the old commerçant said something to the effect of not believing a word.
He could deal with those millions virtuously, and withal with ability, too but of course you would rather he had a salaried position?" "Oh, no," said the gentleman, facetiously, "we are very humble, very humble in our desires; we want no money; we labor solely, for our country and require no reward but the luxury of an applauding conscience.
"And even so, was that a reason?" "The other man cared for her; he may not have been able to help it." "But he knew that she was married," he said virtuously, and then he caught my eye and he saw the analogy instantly, for he colored hotly and put down the book. "Most men argue that way," I said. "They argue by the book, and they do as they like."
"I will do my best, sir!" said Paul, with that modest yet noble simplicity which becomes the virtuously ambitious; and MacGrawler forthwith gave him pen and paper, and set him down to his undertaking. He had the good fortune to please MacGrawler, who, after having made a few corrections in style, declared he evinced a peculiar genius in that branch of composition.
Marcus Aurelius had left no effort untried to have him trained aright by the first teachers and the wisest men whom the age produced; and Herodian distinctly tells us that he had lived virtuously up to the time of his father's death.
It stood empty for some years, while the Russian banker extended his business and lived virtuously elsewhere. Then he suddenly began using the house again as a house of recreation, and brought his foreign servants, and his foreign friends and their foreign servants, to stay from Saturday till Monday.
Miss Allonby wheeled about. Mr. "It is not the powder that I fear." "What, then?" said she, in sinking to the divan beside the disordered tea-table. "There are two of them," said Mr. Erwyn, "and they are so red " "Nonsense!" cried Miss Allonby, with heightened color. "'Tis best to avoid temptation," said Mr. Erwyn, virtuously.
"Why, I wouldn't pay that for a United States Senator. Besides," he added virtuously, "Certina doesn't buy its testimonials." "Then it's an unfortunate coincidence that your check should have come right on top of Mr. Smithson's very ill-advised letter." By a regular follow-up mechanism devised by himself, every donation by Dr.
This was the substance of what Nicolaus said. When Caesar had heard these pleadings, he dissolved the assembly; but a few days afterwards he appointed Archelaus, not indeed to be king of the whole country, but ethnarch of the one half of that which had been subject to Herod, and promised to give him the royal dignity hereafter, if he governed his part virtuously.
John Oakhurst, gambler. But for once the Great Master of Avarice had not taken into sufficient account the avarice of others, and was suddenly and virtuously shocked to learn that an application for a patent for certain lands, known as the "Red-Rock Rancho," was about to be offered before the United States Land Commission. This claim covered his mining property.
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