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One of the constables must needs offer, the Scoundrel, to take horse and go borrow a cartload of fetters from the gaoler at Reading; but he was overruled, and Ropes were thought strong enough to confine us.
I'll have a glass of wine." Mr. Vanborough rose to his feet without replying, and took a turn in the room impatiently. Scoundrel as he was in intention, if not yet in act the loss of the oldest friend he had in the world staggered him for the moment. "This is an awkward business, Delamayn," he said. "What would you advise me to do?" Mr. Delamayn shook his head, and sipped his claret.
As for Dorothy, she walked away with a smile of contentment. "There, miss," she remarked, "we'll see if you can trample on dear old Peter!" "Who's that girl to whom Mr. Stirling is talking?" asked Leonore of her partner. "Ah, that's the rich Miss Biddle, of Philadelphia," replied the scoundrel, in very gentleman-like accents for one of his class.
"And the scoundrel never got it! Here, Colonel, give me the letter. I'll go through this town like a fine-tooth comb but what I'll find him. He will never escape me. My name is Yancey, suh!" The judge was more conservative. He had grave doubts as to whether a second challenge, after a delay of two days and two nights, could be sent at all.
"How soon will it be high water?" asked Mark at last, after wearily watching the constant flow. "Must be soon, sir," said Tom Fillot, who seemed to have dropped into the position of first lieutenant. "Beg pardon, sir, you mean to sail with the ebb?" "Certainly. We must not stay here. That scoundrel may return with help." "You're right, sir. Sooner we're out at sea the better I shall like it."
"Ah, villain, villain!" he sang out, looking him full in the face and grinding his teeth and trying with all his might, but vainly, to get at him through the press of struggling figures by whom he was surrounded. "I've been looking for you, Marquis des Coupgorges!" The black scoundrel gave out a shrill laugh like that of a hyena, as Colonel Vereker had described it to us when telling his yarn.
And you gave me a ginger lozenge with your name written on it in lead pencil, and I gave you a cough-lozenge with mine; and you said it was to show that you were my sweetheart and I was yours. But I suppose you've eaten the one I gave you?" "This is dreadful!" thought Mr. Bultitude. "What shall I do now? The child evidently takes me for that little scoundrel Dick."
I believe that Mr Lessingham is aware of something of the kind. He seemed to come to a sudden resolution, dropping his voice to a whisper. 'The fact is, sir, that I fancy Mr Lessingham's a good deal upset. 'Upset? I stared at him. There was something in his manner I did not understand. 'What do you mean by upset? Has the scoundrel attempted violence? 'Who's there?
Lord Rosmore she had seen for a few moments before he had set out to join the militia marching westward. He was courtly in his manner when he bid her farewell, declared that she would know presently that he had only interfered to save her from a scoundrel, and he left her with the assurance that he was always at her command. Barbara hardly knew whether he were her friend or foe.
"Bravo, Schwarzenberg, bravo!" called out a laughing voice, and as the count, standing midway on the plank, looked up, he saw the Elector above at the open window, nodding to him with friendly gesture, and greeting him with a cheerful smile. "That was good for the brazen scoundrel, Fritz Long," called down the Elector; "how could the rascal dare not to move out of the way for the Stadtholder?"
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