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Among the Colonel's friends the magazine reporter Princhard had been considered an ignorant and malicious liar. Isabelle looked eagerly as Cairy pointed him out, a short, bespectacled man with a thin beard, who was talking to Silver. "There is the only representative of the fashionable world present, Mrs. George Bertram, just coming in the door.
Comparisons are odious, but they need not be malicious; and without any malice I wish to compare this journal, published in a German city of 170,000 inhabitants, with journals of other countries. I know of no other way to enable the reader to "size" the thing.
Nevertheless, we make our way along the gloomy passage until, on reaching the entrance, we find it blocked up. There we were imprisoned. Now, Jack, don't you see in all these things a malicious intention? Ah, yes, believe me, some being hitherto invisible, but not supernatural, as you will persist in thinking, was concealed in the mine.
At last, by the further representation that she would regard her mother's death as far too recent for such matters to occupy her, and by the assertion of the now fixed conviction that attentions from him at present could only agitate and distress her harmfully, and bring on her malicious remarks, the Captain was induced to believe that Rocca Marina or Florence would be a far better scene for his courtship, and to defer it till he could find her there in better health.
"Let the kid 'ave a bit of pleasure lookin' forward to it, can't yer? It's little enough she 'as, anyway." William arose with dignity. "All right," he said. "Go'-bye." He strolled away down the street. "Softie!" It was a malicious sweet little voice. "Swank!" William flushed but forbore to turn round. That evening he met the little girl from next door in the road outside her house. "Hello, Joan!"
Frederick said nothing, and no one dared to break the silence. Even Voltaire repressed the malicious jest which played upon his lip, and was forced to content himself with a mocking smile. "What were the words that your father spoke when he sent you forth as a man into the world? I think you once repeated them to me," said Frederick.
There was a smile of subtle cunning, combined with cruel and malicious determination, on Venner's dark face and he muttered under his breath, as the store door closed upon Nick's imposing figure: "Hear from you later, eh? Very good. Very good, indeed, Mr. Detective Carter! Hear from you again that is precisely what I want! Early and often, Detective Carter; early and often, if you please!
"Fare ye weel, Jenny," said Cuddie, with a loud exertion of his lungs, intended perhaps to be a sigh, but rather resembling the intonation of a groan, "Ye'll think o' puir Cuddie sometimes an honest lad that lo'es ye, Jenny; ye'll think o' him now and then?" "Whiles at brose-time," answered the malicious damsel, unable either to suppress the repartee, or the arch smile which attended it.
It was claimed on all sides that she had in her famous book made such ignorant or malicious misrepresentations that it was nothing short of a tissue of falsehoods, and to refute this she was compelled to write a "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin," in which should appear the sources from which she had obtained her knowledge. Late in the winter Mrs. Stowe wrote: "I am now very much driven.
If he gave the order in writing, he would afford Weixler his desired opportunity of pushing himself forward and invite an investigation of his own conduct. He begrudged the malicious creature that triumph.
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