Mainwaring will storm of course, but you easily pacify him; besides, the most scrupulous
point of honour could not require you to wait for HIS emancipation.
For of the point of honour--not of honour, but of the
point of honour (point d'honneur)--one cannot speak among us except in literary language.
In the first place, the black tulip had been produced; secondly, the Prince William of Orange, as a true Hollander, had promised to be present at the ceremony of its inauguration; and, thirdly, it was a
point of honour with the States to show to the French, at the conclusion of such a disastrous war as that of 1672, that the flooring of the Batavian Republic was solid enough for its people to dance on it, with the accompaniment of the cannon of their fleets.
He said, the boy had suffered enough already for concealing the truth, even if he was guilty, seeing that he could have no motive but a mistaken
point of honour for so doing.
"Because, you see, since I am mutineers' doctor, or prison doctor as I prefer to call it," says Doctor Livesey in his pleasantest way, "I make it a
point of honour not to lose a man for King George (God bless him!) and the gallows."
I suppose you know that when you are after tiger, it is a
point of honour not to shoot at anything else, as life may depend on it.
It's a mere formality," he added, with a side look at my mistress; "but the servants will accept it as even dealing between them and their betters; and, instead of hindering the investigation, they will make a
point of honour of assisting it."
'It's a
point of honour. But come with us, sir; pray come with us.'
Miss Crawford was not slow to admire; she pretty well guessed Miss Bertram's feelings, and made it a
point of honour to promote her enjoyment to the utmost.
I am a knight-errant, and not one of those whose names Fame has never thought of immortalising in her record, but of those who, in defiance and in spite of envy itself, and all the magicians that Persia, or Brahmans that India, or Gymnosophists that Ethiopia ever produced, will place their names in the temple of immortality, to serve as examples and patterns for ages to come, whereby knights-errant may see the footsteps in which they must tread if they would attain the summit and crowning
point of honour in arms."
If it is a
point of honour that I should originate the name--Miss Mickles--Miggles.'
They found the usual dim light burning in the window of Mr Venus's establishment, imperfectly disclosing to the public the usual pair of preserved frogs, sword in hand, with their
point of honour still unsettled.