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"Wetter and donner, yawl What do you take me for?" "For a bloodthirsty, fearless miscreant!" thought Glossin internally; but said aloud, "And which of your people was it that shot young Hazlewood?"
"It was from the Medecin that the name of the assassin and the motive for the crime were ascertained. The miscreant was a Red Republican and Socialist named Armand Monnier. He had been a very skilful workman, and earning, as such, high wages.
It looks like a deliberate attempt to insult me. It is hard to believe one of my girls guilty, yet it is not probable that any one outside could be responsible. A girl who would wilfully do such a thing is a menace to the school and should be removed from it. I am not going to any extreme measures to find the miscreant.
Thy lily-livered husband lies at my mercy, and once in Davy Jones's locker will be out of my path. Then the wedding bells shall ring and we will sail together over the bounding main. Gently, gently, pretty dove! Do not struggle. I will not hurt thee." "Unhand me, miscreant," cried Cicely.
At five o'clock he was hanged at the yardarm of the Neapolitan frigate Minerva. This poor old man was tried solely by his enemies without being allowed to have counsel or call witnesses. A miscreant called Count Thurn, a worse enemy than all, presided over the court. Carraciolli asked Lieutenant Parkinson to obtain for him a new trial.
The cruel Barbarico was no sooner arrived at his gloomy cave, than he called to him his little page; who, trembling to hear the tyrant now again returned, quickly drew near to attend his stern commands: when drawing out of the wallet the poor Fidus, more dead than alive, the monster cried out, 'Here, caitiff, take in charge this smoothed-faced miscreant; and, d'ye hear me? see that his allowance be no more than one small ounce of mouldy bread and half a pint of standing water, for each day's support, till his now blooming skin be withered, his flesh be wasted from his bones, and he dwindle to a meagre skeleton. So saying he left them, as he hoped, to bewail each other's sad condition.
The Tribune raised, for a deadlier blow, the revengeful blade. The assassin thus foiled was a man used to all form and shape of danger, and he did not now lose his presence of mind. "Hold!" said he; "if you kill me, you will die yourself. Spare me, and I will save you." "Miscreant!" "Hush not so loud, or you will disturb your attendants, and some of them may do what I have failed to execute.
But, at that moment, Stepan comes in and, with a snigger, announces: "Nero has eaten the kittens, madam." Nina and Vanya turn pale and look at Stepan with horror. "He really has . . ." laughs the footman, "he went to the box and gobbled them up." The children expect that all the people in the house will be aghast and fall upon the miscreant Nero.
He himself had received a rap and we don't hate ourselves. Great is the syllogism! But there is a class of arguments less vulnerable. In this predicament was the Poet Laureate. So the miscreant Proteus no bad name for an old actor took his little cocked hat and marched, a smaller, if not a wiser man.
One result was the defeat in Ontario of Sandfield Macdonald's ministry in 1871. 'I find the country in a sound state, wrote Sir John Macdonald during the general elections of 1872, 'the only rock ahead being that infernal Scott murder case, about which the Orangemen have quite lost their heads. When order was restored the clever miscreant Riel returned to the settlement.
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