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Could they find nobody but a If I should repeat here on paper the epithets the man used, I should be almost as great a blackguard as he was to use them. They were words abominable and horrible. I know by my anger at them now then I had no time to feel for myself that if a man had used them to me, and I had held a weapon in my hand, I should have killed him.
"Oh!" he shrieked, "if I could only smash that abominable blackguard like this vase, trample him under foot as I do this debris, and then have the remains of him swept up and thrown out into the dust-heap, where he belongs. A miserable scoundrel, that dares to interpose between me, the Duke of Vallombreuse, and the object of my desires!
"Damme!" cried the utterly perverse rebel standing opposite, "why don't you keep on your Compound, you Yellow Peril? Who asked you to come into my shop to blackguard the things? Come now, who did?"
Presumably, this Frenchman was by some chance stripped of everything, and was so wretchedly attired that but for his princely air he might have been taken for a blackguard. It was possible that his horse had died of hunger or fatigue, on disembarking from the foreign shore for which he came, on the faith of the good luck which happened to the French in Sicily, which was true in every respect.
Morally, he's a failure, and you are right to condemn him; but don't let that make you an enemy to him as owner of the works. Be just, and don't be prejudiced against him in one capacity because he's failed in another." "A bad man is a bad man," answered Baggs stoutly, "and a blackguard's a blackguard.
It chanced that one day the giant caught a salmon, near a salmon-leap upon his estate for, though a big ould blackguard, he was a person of considerable landed property, and high sheriff for the county Cork.
I don't stagnate: there's always movement; but putting aside the religious question my stage at present is yours of twenty years ago. Yet, not even that; for you started better than I did. You were never a selfish lout a half-baked blackguard 'Nor you either, my dear fellow. 'But I was! I've got along fairly well in self-knowledge; I can follow my course in the past clearly enough.
"You're such an infernal blackguard," he said, "that I don't care a damn whether you go to the devil or not. The only thing that concerns me is how to protect a woman's honour that you have dared to jeopardize, how to save her from open shame. It won't be an easy matter, but it can be done, and it shall be done. Now listen!" His voice rang suddenly hard, almost metallic.
"A lawful command means an order established by law; now where is that law? besides, the captain told me when I kicked that blackguard down the hatchway, that there was only the captain who could punish, and that officers could not take the law into their own hands; why then has the master?" "His doing wrong as superior officer is no reason why you as an inferior should disobey him.
Ah! you blackguard! to go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself and becomes silly. I have seen chaos, I now see a mess. Students deliberating on the National Guard, such a thing could not be seen among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches!
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