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Updated: June 11, 2025
This friend of yours will take one look at Siwash and ask you if Sapphira is feeling well these days." "Bet you five, my opera hat, a good mandolin and a meal ticket on Jim's place against your dress suit," said Petey promptly. "And you better not take it, either."
"I shall consider myself honored by even a mere bow from you, after you have taken curtain calls before a New York audience." "When I was with Edwin Booth," began Hippy reminiscently, "he often said to me, 'Hippy, my boy, my acting is nothing compared to yours. You are " "A first cousin to Ananias and Sapphira," finished David derisively. "Never heard of them," replied Hippy unabashed.
"They tell of broken hearts," said Surgeon Fuller musing above that double grave; "and were I asked to name Dame Katharine's complaint I know no name for it but that." "Thou liest foully, Edward Dotey! Thou liest even as Ananias and Sapphira lied." "Liest, thou son of Belial! 'T is thou that liest, and art a cock-a-hoop braggart into the bargain, Master Edward Lister!
There was so much dissatisfaction over Abbott Ashton because of "so much talk" that even Robert Clinton had thought it best to wait, that the young man might virtually be put upon good behavior. "To-night," the young man repeated with a thrill. He realized how important this meeting would prove in shaping his future. Miss Sapphira was too appallingly significant to mean otherwise.
Yes, he's to punish her at four o'clock, and I'm to be present, to stop all this confoun I mean this ungodly gossip." "You'd better wear your spectacles, Bob, so you'll look old and settled. I'm not always sure of you, either." "Sapphira, if I hadn't joined the church, I'd say " He threw up his hand and clenched his fist as if he had caught an oath and meant to hold it tight.
The scarlet youth at the Duke's side swung round in his saddle to obtain a view of her who called so piteously, and he beheld Sapphira Danvelt. She was all in black, and black was the veil that hung from her steeple head-dress, throwing into greater relief her pallid loveliness which the youth's glance was quick to appraise.
He had supposed the horse grazing near by, enjoying semi-freedom with his grass. Now it seemed far otherwise. Miss Sapphira had even had him telephone to Bob to bring her hither. With his own hands he had dug his pitfall. Fran, suddenly aware of her ridiculous attitude, sat down and began to laugh. Bob Clinton inquired, "Taking a drive, Abb?"
The word "hypocrisy" is a very hard one to get out at the lips. It should never be used except to help, and then very, very sparingly, and only in humblest spirit, and with earnest, secret prayer. Ananias and Sapphira quickly come to mind here. They wanted men to think them wholly surrendered, though they knew they were not. That was all; not so unusual a thing, after all.
Ananias and Sapphira figured in the foreground; and the awful nature of fraud and theft, of tampering in anywise with the plain rule of honesty in matters pertaining to estates, etc., were pointedly dwelt upon; and then came a long and strenuous prayer, in which he entreated with fervour and aplomb that the hard heart of the sinner who had abstracted the leases might be softened or broken in such a way as to lead to their restitution; or that, if he continued reserved and contumacious, it might at least be the will of Heaven to bring him to public justice and the documents to light.
Sapphira was wife to a man of fashion and gallantry, and one who seemed, I own, every way worthy of her affections; which, however, he had not the reputation of having. She was indeed a coquette achevee. "Pray, sir," says Adams, "what is a coquette? I have met with the word in French authors, but never could assign any idea to it. I believe it is the same with une sotte, Anglice, a fool."
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