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"They are Douglas and Warner," said Mrs. Jeffrey, "two as big scapegraces as there are this side of Old Bailey that's what they are. They came from Worcester, and if I've any discernment they are after your girls, and your girls are after them." "After my girls! After Maggie! It can't be possible!" gasped Mrs. Conway, thinking of Arthur Carrollton. "It's the very truth, though," returned Mrs.
Comte de Souvary used to say that if you wished to find the wickedest men in Europe you had only to cast your eyes in the direction of Florence's mother; and she would be trotted off to church and driven in automobiles and lunched in casinos by the most notorious and unprincipled scapegraces of the Old World.
His idleness became deliberate; his intemperance, which brought him countless punishments, became, to his mind, a veritable religious duty. But that which above all made him the worst of scapegraces was the supercilious disdain which he entertained for the poor devils who had to earn their bread.
Here were the flow of soul and of stout, long pipes, long yarns, and tolerably long credits; and the humble scapegraces of the town resorted thither for the pleasures of a club-life, and often revelled deep into the small hours of the morning. So Luke came forth. D it, where's the note? said the captain, rummaging uneasily in his pockets. 'You know me eh! 'Captain Lake. Yes, Sir.
A murmur of approval rose amidst the scapegraces, as if this fact of possessing a papa dead in a cemetery had caused their comrade to grow big enough to crush the other one who had no papa at all.
Then there is the class who are sent to sea, scapegraces all. The alternative is not unfrequently the one of which Dr. Johnson chose the other side. The Doctor being sans question a landsman, he never saw, we warrant, any resemblance to fore and main and mizzen in the three spires of Litchfield. But the Doctor, not being a scamp, was not compelled to choose. Many another is not so well off.
I'm astonished to hear a decent gentleman like you slander the very table as you've eaten off for the last "'We won't be precise to a year, ma'am, interrupted my uncle. "'And if you will have little scapegraces of neveys into my house to break the furniture, why, them as breaks, pays, Mr. Belper. "'Very well. Of course I will pay for it.
Pike, in Great Ormond Street, name on a brass plate; and when he has settled the amount, we young scapegraces will help each other, without a word to the old folks." What good it does to a man, throughout life, to meet kindness and generosity like this in his youth!
When the father of Rutherford Richmond's friend, at whose house the young Bostonian was visiting, learned the facts, he was indignant beyond description. He declared that Ben Mayberry had served the young scapegraces right, except he ought to have punished both more severely, which was rather severe, as was shown by the blackened eyes and bruised faces.
One of the uses to which we put America in the days of our British dominion was to make it a refuge for our sinners. Besides convicts and assigned servants whom we transported to our colonies, we discharged on their shores scapegraces and younger sons, for whom dissipation, despair, and bailiffs made the old country uninhabitable. And as Mr.
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