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"Cecil, my dear fellow! I'm ashamed to send for you on such a blackguard errand. Never heard of such a swindler's trick in all my life; couldn't pitch the fellow into the street because of the look of the thing, and can't take any other measure without you, you know. I only sent for you to expose the whole abominable business, never because I believe Hang it!
Now, get your traps out of this as soon as you can; and be off to make love to Miss Kitty." I was endeavoring to express my thanks for his kindness. He cut me short. "Don't think I did this because I like you. I gather that you've behaved like a blackguard all through. But, all the same, you're a phenomenon, and as queer a phenomenon as you are a blackguard.
He was smiling. "They will shoot him, of course." "And you wish it!" she denounced him in a whisper of horror. "Above all things," he answered. "A more poetic justice never overtook a blackguard." "Why do you call him that? What do you mean?" "I will tell you afterwards, after they have shot him; unless the truth comes out before." "What truth do you mean?
Then, too, I think he understands the tricks of the market better over here, and he has a very dangerous confederate in Skinflint Martin. What that old blackguard doesn't know of chicanery and crooked dealing, the devil himself couldn't make use of. If he's put his own money into B. & I., I should say that Phipps can't be broken.
Yesterday I was the idol of the religious house, thought more on than his reverence, every one paying me court and wurtship, and wanting to play cards with me, and to learn my tricks, and fed, moreover, on the tidbits of the table; and to-day I was in a cell, nobody coming to look at me but the blackguard porter who had charge of me, my cards taken from me, and with nothing but bread and water to live upon.
If it wasn't for damned troubles like this, I'd been a retired man and fat and rich long ago. Don't grin, you heartless blackguard! You'll have miseries of your own before we're done." Pat Carrigan was a true prophet. A blow of fatal nature, indeed, was preparing at the moment and fell within a week.
For my part, I'd rather talk about 'The Slummer. I had a look at it the other day. Uncommonly good, the blackguard on the curbstone, you've got him." "You think so?" Franks sat a little straighter, but still with vacant eye. "Yes, not bad, I think. But who knows whether I shall finish the thing." "If you don't," replied his friend, in a matter-of-fact tone, "you'll do something better.
"How could this blackguard get in?" cried the Turk, "I believe he's a mere common chimneysweeper out of the streets, for he's all over dirt and filth. I never saw such a dress at a masquerade before in my life." "All the better," returned the other; "would not change. What do think it cost?" "Cost? Why, not a crown." "A crown? ha! ha! a pot o' beer! Little Tom borrowed it; had it of our own sweep.
They should be married in the face of day, as the Kellys ought, with all their friends round them. "They'd have no huggery-muggery work, up in a corner; not they indeed! why should they? for fear of Barry Lynch? who cared for a dhrunken blackguard like that? not she indeed! who ever heard of a Kelly being afraid of a Lynch?
"Monsieur," said the prince of travellers, darting a savage glance at his enemy, "you are a scoundrel and a blackguard; and under pain of being thought a turn-key, a species of being far below a galley-slave, you will give me satisfaction for the insult you dared to offer me in sending me to a man whom you knew to be a lunatic! Do you hear me, Monsieur Vernier, dyer?"
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