The credit of the former is by common
notoriety supported for a long time; and public records, with the concurrent testimony of many authors, bear evidence to their truth in future ages.
Father Mapple enjoyed such a wide reputation for sincerity and sanctity, that I could not suspect him of courting
notoriety by any mere tricks of the stage.
I am what is termed a popular preacher--but I have never, in my secret self, felt any exultation in my own
notoriety, or any extraordinary respect for the means by which it has been won.
This event made Fuchs the object of undeserved
notoriety, since he was travelling with her.
And as there would be a necessity for submitting each nomination to the judgment of an entire branch of the legislature, the circumstances attending an appointment, from the mode of conducting it, would naturally become matters of
notoriety; and the public would be at no loss to determine what part had been performed by the different actors.
And when such as had come in contact with Strickland in the past, writers who had known him in London, painters who had met him in the cafes of Montmartre, discovered to their amazement that where they had seen but an unsuccessful artist, like another, authentic genius had rubbed shoulders with them there began to appear in the magazines of France and America a succession of articles, the reminiscences of one, the appreciation of another, which added to Strickland's
notoriety, and fed without satisfying the curiosity of the public.
But no one knows so well as the Secretary, who opens and reads the letters, what a set is made at the man marked by a stroke of
notoriety. Oh the varieties of dust for ocular use, offered in exchange for the gold dust of the Golden Dustman!
The first person I asked gave me more in reply than I sought to know; he showed me the house, and told me all that had occurred at the betrothal of the daughter of the family, an affair of such
notoriety in the city that it was the talk of every knot of idlers in the street.
But still more, this craving for
notoriety was a symptom of the intense morbidness which now pervaded his nature.
Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide
notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story.
Of course I was all the talk -- all other subjects were dropped; even the king became suddenly a per- son of minor interest and
notoriety. Within twenty- four hours the delegations began to arrive, and from that time onward for a fortnight they kept coming.
Here was a gorgeous triumph; they were missed; they were mourned; hearts were breaking on their account; tears were being shed; accusing memories of unkindness to these poor lost lads were rising up, and unavailing regrets and re- morse were being indulged; and best of all, the depart- ed were the talk of the whole town, and the envy of all the boys, as far as this dazzling
notoriety was con- cerned.