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Luckily Dick old hand on the plains of countries where it is not considered healthy to be found on the home trail of a man one watches at night had taken the precaution to crawl aside sufficiently to give this "Knave of diamonds" a wide berth; and he lay inert and silent as the dead till Grosman was well on his homeward journey, before following him to a well-earned spell of sleep.
However, the difficulty must be got over somehow, and at any rate the plan seems to promise better than anything I had thought of. The first difficulty is how to get the ruffians for such a business. I cannot go up to the first beetle-browed knave I meet in the street and say to him, Are you disposed to aid me in the abduction of a lady?"
"But this young man," pursued Phineas, utterly unmoved by Darrell's threat, "is not of you; he shall be snatched from the burning, and by his hand the Lord will work a great deliverance." Darrell turned to me and said stiffly: "This room is yours, sir, not mine. Do you suffer the presence of this mischievous knave?" "I suffer what I can't help," I answered.
'He is a scurril knave. And she said, 'Out on thee! How darest thou disobey thy lord's commandment! 'He is no lord of mine, rejoined the Persian. 'Knowst thou who I am? 'I know nothing of thee, replied the princess, 'save what thou toldest me. Quoth he, 'What I told thee was a trick of mine against thee and the prince.
I have played the knave so long with you that it is perhaps the greatest knavery I can commit to be honest at last. But I am going to do it, Mary. I want to tell you the whole story. You have told me yours." Her eyes flickered at that, but she said nothing. Passive as she sat, heavy in judgment, she was yet keenly interested.
Consul again showed him the door with a sharp rebuke, as might have been expected; and it is said that this knave played the pimp for the Sheriff, and indeed I think he would not otherwise have been so bold.
"There never was a man so plagued as I am with a malapert knave!
I want no scholar more than enough to serve my mass. Canst sing?" "Not now; but I hope to do so again." "When I rid me of Bolt there and there's an office under the sacristan that he might fill as well as another knave the fellow might do for me well enow as a body servant," said Mr. Alworthy, speaking to himself.
But we have no right to make accusation without an iota of proof." "Then you decline to allow the name to be furnished?" blurted the referee. "I refuse, sir, for the same reason that you would," Dick answered coolly. "Only a coward, a knave or a fool will accuse another person without some reasonable proof to offer. No great harm has been done, anyway. The drag was found in time."
"Order enough order enough for those that may soon be glad of clean straw in a barn," said the knight; "but if thou hast an ill-will to harbour any obnoxious or malignant persons, as the phrase goes, never shame to speak it out, man. What of that? Sailors think no longer of the wind than when it forwards them on the voyage thy betters turn with the tide, why should not such a poor knave as thou?"
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