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"Ah! that was a queer thing, that mutiny," said Burgess. "We've got the fellows here, you know." "I saw them tried at Hobart Town," said Meekin. "In fact, the ringleader, John Rex, gave me his confession, and I sent it to the Bishop." "A great rascal," put in North. "A dangerous, scheming, cold blooded villain." "Well now!" said Meekin, with asperity, "I don't agree with you.
"Pooh, nonsense, the rascal has only been `pulling your leg' with a cock-and-a-bull story, Jack," said dad in a contemptuous tone when I had finished for he was an officer of the old school and always believed in the obligations of discipline, invariably "sticking up" for those superior to him in rank in the service "I knew old Admiral Fitzblazes myself very well, and a better officer and gentleman never wore the Queen's uniform!"
When he briskly took the not guilty side of the case, but a moment before, very likely the old gentleman had a different view from that which he chose to advocate, and judged of Arthur by what he himself would have done. If she goes to Arthur, and he speaks the truth, as the rascal will, it spoils all, he thought. And he tried one more effort.
Washington heard presently that Clifton had sold the land to another man for one thousand two hundred pounds, which fully "unravelled his conduct ... and convinced me that he was nothing less than a thorough paced rascal." Ultimately Washington acquired Brents, but had to pay one thousand two hundred ten pounds for it.
The rascal is so symmetrical, and his physiognomy, as it gleams upon us through the centuries, so happy, that we cannot withhold our ducats, though we may accompany the gift with a shower of abuse. This only proves the profundity of an observation made by Mr. Bagehot a man who carried away into the next world more originality of thought than is now to be found in the Three Estates of the Realm.
And I strove feverishly to catch sight of her, following the voice as it swept around in circles; and seeing nothing, I burst into tears. Suddenly I was seized roughly by the ear. "What are you doing here, you young rascal? Are you mad? The wind is blowing right on to my bed. Five hundred lines!" The usher, in nightdress and slippers, was rolling his angry eyes on me. "Yes, sir; certainly, sir!
Whether he ever "stung" Malwida? I should have liked to see the idealist's face when confronted in that cheery off-hand manner with the question whether she happened to have five hundred francs to spare. "No? Whatever does it matter, my dear Madame de Meysenbug? Perhaps I shall be more fortunate another day. But pray don't put yourself out for an extravagant rascal like myself.
"And whose fault was that, timid villain," said Ramorny, "save thine own, who marked a rascal deer for a buck of the first head?" "Benedicite, noble sir," replied the mediciner; "would you have me, who know little save of chamber practice, be as skilful of woodcraft as your noble self, or tell hart from hind, doe from roe, in a glade at midnight?
I bear the old creature a great-grandson's love or a step or two farther off, if you will, and come and go too often to forget the relationship. But, much as I love her, the affection is not strong enough to go ashore on her shoals, and so we will go about, Mr. Leach; at the same time, I wish from my heart that two-lugged rascal would go about his business."
"Anxious, no doubt, to set herself off to advantage, she hath made free with the countess's wardrobe. Your own favourite attendant, Sarah Swarton, hath often arranged herself in your finest fardingales, kirtlets, and busk-points, as Diego will tell you. Is it not so, rascal?" "'T is precisely as my lord hath stated, my lady," said the Spaniard to Lady Roos.
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