SALOMON saies; A
good Name is as a precious oyntment; And I assure my selfe, such wil your Graces Name bee, with Posteritie.
However, that my honour may not be left a matter of doubt in your minds, now that you have discovered me to be a woman, and see that I am young, alone, and in this dress, things that taken together or separately would be enough to destroy any good name, I feel bound to tell what I would willingly keep secret if I could."
They told me they trusted and confided their honour and good name to my virtue and rectitude alone, and bade me consider the disparity between Don Fernando and myself, from which I might conclude that his intentions, whatever he might say to the contrary, had for their aim his own pleasure rather than my advantage; and if I were at all desirous of opposing an obstacle to his unreasonable suit, they were ready, they said, to marry me at once to anyone I preferred, either among the leading people of our own town, or of any of those in the neighbourhood; for with their wealth and my good name, a match might be looked for in any quarter.
But it is bad sleeping without a
good name and a little treasure.
He could not rest quietly for two minutes together, but kept picking up and then dropping whatsoever came to his hand, and bowing and smiling without intermission, and sitting down and getting up, and again sitting down, and chattering God only knows what about his honour and his
good name and his little ones.
I am concerned but for the
good name of the Tremolino, and I affirm that a ship is ever guiltless of the sins, transgressions, and follies of her men.
Hester felt that the sacrifice of the clergyman's
good name, and death itself, as she had already told Roger Chillingworth, would have been infinitely preferable to the alternative which she had taken upon herself to choose.
You do care for your bosom friend's
good name, and you do care for her peace of mind.
I hope you will fall into good hands; but a horse never knows who may buy him, or who may drive him; it is all a chance for us; but still I say, do your best wherever it is, and keep up your
good name."
Didn't I change you off, en give you a good fambly en a
good name, en made you a white gen'l'man en rich, wid store clothes on--en what did I git for it?
Shocking murder of an M.P." That was the funeral oration of one friend and client; and he could not help a certain apprehension lest the
good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal.
He fancied that he understood what she was utterly unable to understand: how it was that, having made her husband wretched, having abandoned him and her son and lost her
good name, she yet felt full of spirits, gaiety, and happiness.