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She felt as if she had had a shock of electricity. She reminded herself that she had acted entirely in self-defence, not through malice, and she had not told a single lie about Peter. It was very good advice, and nothing Peter ought to be angry about, even if he should ever hear which, pray heaven, he might not!
He and his companion, however, rigidly complied with it, lying close in the hold or under the boats, while suspicious officials searched the ship, a proof, he triumphantly declares, of the audacious malice which has asserted it as a tenet of Rome that no faith need be kept with heretics.
By no pressure would she ride up the street with him. "That's the right of another woman," she said, with playful malice, as she put on her pattens. "I wonder what you are thinking of! Thank you for the lift in that handsome gig. Good-by."
Deprived of his society the captain consoled himself with that of Edward Tredgold, a young man for whom he was beginning to entertain a strong partiality, and whose observations of Binchester folk, flavoured with a touch of good-natured malice, were a source of never-failing interest. "He is very wide-awake," he said to his niece. "There isn't much that escapes him."
Villiers angrily pushed away the Frenchman's hand and glared vindictively at him. 'Ah, you still bear malice for that little episode of the ditch, said Vandeloup with a gay laugh. 'Come, now, this is a mistake; let us be friends. 'Go to the devil! growled Villiers, crossly. 'All right, my friend, said M. Vandeloup, serenely crossing his legs.
Verres thanks the gentlemen, and extols their goodwill and zeal for his interests. He himself, burning with rage and malice, comes down to the court. His eyes flashed fire; cruelty was written on every line of his face.
Wherever he be, he has escaped the malice of his foes this time. Heaven send that he may long escape! He was a godly and a saintly man, and no more heretic than thou or I. If the Church will persist in warring thus against her own truest sons, then indeed will she provoke some great judgment upon her own head.
This explains why the Greeks were able to attain such heights in philosophy, and yet fell to such depths in music. Music has an additional merit. It lulls to sleep the residuum of disinterested malice in the soul.
There was malice in the words, but there was greater malice in the tone, and Lablache, who was bent on getting the business, swallowed his ugly wrath, and determined that, if he got the business, he would get the lodge also in due time; for Dingan, if he went, would not take the lodge- or the woman with him; and Dingan was not fool enough to stay when he could go to Groise to a sure fortune.
'True, said Guy, though he little knew how much he owed to having attended to that caution, for who could have told where the mastery might have been in the period of fearful conflict with his passions, if he had been feeding his imagination with the contemplation of revenge, dark hatred, and malice, and identifying himself with Byron's brooding and lowering heroes!
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