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Grant then told me Baraka had been frightened at Mininga, by a blackguard Mganga to whom he would not give a present, into the belief that our journey would encounter some terrible mishap; for, when the M'yonga catastrophe happened, he thought that a fulfillment of the Mganga's prophecy. His dues for the present were four brass wires, and as many more when we reached the palace.
Springing from his hammock with a bound like a tiger, he exclaimed, "Och! ye blackguard, would ye murther the boy before me very nose?" and seizing the hermit in his powerful grasp, he would infallibly have hurled him, big though he was, through his own doorway, had not Martin cried out, "Stop, stop, Barney.
Not blue enough, mind you, to compel the sale of a big rising property at a sacrifice; but the sort of thing to make a man squeeze his small creditors all round, while still nursing his top class. So you see how it all fits in. They say the old blackguard is briefing Mr. Attorney himself; that along with all the rest to scale, will run him into thousands even if he wins his case."
Langton has been told this precious story with all the latest improvements? asked Caffyn. 'Not yet, said Mark, 'but she must know before long. 'And as for yourself, you consider me such an utterly irreclaimable blackguard that you can't afford to be seen with me any longer? pursued Caffyn. 'My dear fellow, protested Mark, 'I don't want to judge you.
When allowed to come on deck "we were insulted by those Blackguard Villians in the most vulgar manner....We were allowed no water that was fit for a Beast to Drink, although they had plenty of good Water on board, which was used plentifully by the Seamen, etc. "Lieutenant Dowdswell, with a party of Marines sent on board for our Guard; this Mr.
The handsome structure runs away in our rear; the Chinese Junk, with its tawdry flags, scuttles after it; we catch a momentary glimpse of Temple Gardens, lying in the sunlight, where half-a-dozen children are playing on the grass; then comes Whitefriars, the old Alsatia, the sanctuary of blackguard ruffianism in bygone times; then there is a smell of gas, and a vision of enormous gasometers; and then down goes the funnel again, and Blackfriars Bridge jumps over us.
Saying which, I laid aside my staff, and buttoned up my coat. "Why," he began, "you infernally low, dusty, ditch-trotting blackguard " But his companion, who had been regarding me very closely, twitched him by the sleeve, and whispered something in his ear. Whatever it was it affected my antagonist strangely, for he grew suddenly very red, and then very white, and abruptly turned his back upon me.
Perhaps I might express an opinion that you never came across a greater blackguard than Goarly either in this country or your own." "That's a strong opinion, Mr. Runciman." "It's the general opinion here, sir. I should have thought you'd found it out before this." "I don't know that I am prepared at this moment to declare all that I have found out"
A couple of tigers confabulating, with the prey before them, and a fight impending, would have been no finer and no shrewder than this pair; the insolent fine gentleman as great a blackguard as the other in his soiled and mud-stained clothes. "Which will you lay your money on?" asked Desroches, looking round at an audience, surprised to find how deeply it was interested.
Instead, he received at the close of one of the most important cases, a blow from a blackguard which narrowly missed maiming him for life. It is worth while to read what Dana wrote after rendering all the aid he could in the defence of Anthony Burns: ``The labors of a lawyer are ordinarily devoted to questions of property between man and man.
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