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...heaves, Elaine had tricked him into her chamber by an ambiguous message and there made a plea, and a display, of such pitiable devotion that no generous man, whatever his integrity, could have denied her. Nor was it remarkable that Guinevere stayed skeptical, with reports of the lusty brat's [Galahad's] activities constantly reaching the court. She dismissed Lancelot, who thereupon went mad, and she never bade him return until her life was at stake before the perfectly accurate charges of jealous and mighty Sir Meliagrance. The interim was Elaine's one happy season. When Lancelot...
...installed one Eliza Bowen in his mansion on Whitehall Street, bought her a fine carriage in which she paraded, the huzzy, to the disgruntlement of other matrons who, though formally wedded, had no carriages. She was a bad one, this Eliza. At 19, she had given birth to a brat, insolently christened George Washington Bowen, who for many years startled all beholders by the striking resemblance of his features to those of the Father of His Country. In Jumel's house, Mistress Bowen waited for 15 years for New York to recognize her. She twiddled the indiscreet rum-importer...
...millionaire who takes a lowly clerical job in a rival company's office to uncover a conspiracy, and incidentally reforms his shiftless son and saves him for the daughter of the rival house triumphantly to marry. There is novelty in the situation when this girl adopts a precocious brat and hef nervous brother, to square accounts, adapts Arliss as a father. It is the sort of picture which Americans are supposed to love, since it has comedy arid large business deals in it. But its appeal is chiefly through the quaint characterization and slow smile of Arliss, for the rest...
...Scum, scoundrel, brat, riff-raff!" called in a loud voice...
Cuffs, kicks and curses was the order of the day in the Chambre des Députés when Royalist Reputy Magne called canaille (Scum, scoundrel, brat, riffraff) in a loud voice, apparently at ex-Premier Painlevé, who was reading from a large book of records. M. Painlevé did not hear the serious imprecation hurled at him, but his friends insisted upon telling him about...