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"It is a lucky hour in which we first see something new to us, and, by Heracles! I never before in the whole course of my life saw such villains as these. I do not regret having gone to see them and talked to them as if I were their equal. Now, take this torn coat off me, and help me to undress.
Terror overpowers her! MRS. MILLER throws herself on her knees before the PRESIDENT. Arrest these offenders in the duke's name. Boy, let go that strumpet! Fainting or not when once her neck is fitted with the iron collar the mob will pelt her till she revives. MRS. MILLER. Mercy, your excellency! Mercy! mercy! Kneel to God, you howling fool, and not to villains since I must to prison any way!
Come! are you ready to answer respondere parati et cantare pares? Will the villains ever be discovered and punished who stole my fruit? Some unlucky rascals who rob orchards are caught up the tree at once. Some rob through life with impunity.
When the truth was revealed, my first impulse was to laugh aloud, my second to set off in my car without a moment's loss of time, and try to lay by the heels the pair of villains who had done this thing.
Public morality was at last avenged, Paris might now emerge in safety from its long spell of terror, Anarchism would be struck down, annihilated. And that was what he, Monferrand, had done as a Minister for the honour and safety of his country, whilst villains were vainly seeking to dishonour him by inscribing his name on a list of infamy, the outcome of the very basest political intrigues.
That their leader was one I could swear, for I heard him speaking English to several of the villains; and what is more, as he gave me a good opportunity of marking his features while I was bound to the mainmast, I should remember him were I ever to meet him again." "I hope that you may never fall in with him again under similar circumstances," remarked Mr Trunnion.
The whole day long he dwelt in a dream of it that blotted out, or rather consumed with more effulgent brightness, all the other day-dreams he had dreamed before, and his heart almost burst with longing to be a villain like those villains on the stage, to have a mustache a black mustache such as they wore at a time when every one off the stage was clean shaven, and somehow to end bloodily, murderously, as became a villain.
"I thought I was done for!" he exclaimed, with that cool air which an habitual indifference to danger can alone inspire. "I didn't care so much for myself; but I thought the villains would treat you in the same way as they were going to serve me, and I was terribly sorry for you, that I was."
"I'm glad you've asked, as it gives me an opportunity to explain the why and the wherefore of our acts, and to show you that we are not, after all, quite such villains as I daresay you now think us.
So, please you, aunt, I will wait a few days," was the quiet reply from the invisible. "Right cleverly answered, lass!" said the Squire, with a good-humored chuckle. "Well, we will try you, too, for once; but mind, if I find you making eyes at any of the villains, I'll cut you off with a shilling."
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