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C. to halt the party and send back some of the men to my assistance being determined either to make the indians deliver the robe or birn their houses. they have vexed me in such a manner by such repeated acts of villany that I am quite disposed to treat them with every severyty, their defenseless state pleads forgivness so far as rispects their lives. with this resolution I returned to their village which I had just reached as Labuish met me with the robe which he informed me he found in an Indian lodg hid behind their baggage.
He afterwards mixed it with three apple-cakes, which he bought for the purpose, and presented to the three other children, who underwent the same violence of operation which had proved fatal to the eldest brother. The instantaneous effects of the poison created a suspicion of Haines, who, being examined, the whole scene of villany stood disclosed. Nevertheless, the villain found means to escape.
Her perfect workmanship, clear-cut, rounded, complete, stood forth like a delicate cameo beside the rude buffoonery of T. Macready Lane, the coarse villany of Albrecht, and the stiff mannerisms of the remainder of the cast. They were automatons as compared with a figure instinct with life animated by intelligence.
An unparalleled piece of villany has dissolved the union of our hearts; but a dreadful vow binds my tongue, and your father has spies stationed upon every side. But, if thou hast courage, my beloved, I know a place where oaths no longer bind, and where spies cannot enter." LOUISA. Why that earnest look, father? Read what follows.
But, mark me, Reilly I had almost forgotten don't neglect to secure the clothes in which the villain robbed me; they will be important." "I had no intention of forgetting them, sir; and that scheme for throwing the guilt of his own villany on Mr. Reilly is another reason why I appear against him." It was not, indeed, very easy for the Rapparee to escape.
"I am near death," he proceeded, "and what would I not give to have within me a heart so pure and free from villany as that man. He has made me feel more by thinkin' of what goodness and piety can do, than I ever felt in my life; and now if he gets upon Freney the Robber, or lugs in that giant Ruly, he'll forget debts, difficulties, and all for the time.
He also thought it possible that Deaker, out of respect for his villany, might in some capricious moment have thought of rewarding it; and so probably he might have done, were it not for two traits in his character which his worthy father especially detested viz., cowardice and hypocrisy. Val, on his return home, found fewer carts than he had calculated upon even among his blood-hounds.
Oh, but the cold, bloodless villany of the tone! the ease with which crimes for a gibbet were treated as topics for wit!" Arabella stopped the same shudder came over her as when she had concluded the epistles abstracted from the dainty pocketbook. "But in the letter were also allusions to Sophy, to another attempt on Darrell to be made by Gabrielle herself.
"Oh, the man I had loved as a friend; the man whom I myself helped to make known to Trevanion, Vivian, Vivian!" "Vivian! Ah, the youth I have heard you speak of! But how? Villany to whom, to Trevanion?" "You torture me with your questions. Miss Trevanion is an heiress, Vivian an adventurer. My head swims round; I cannot explain now. Ha!
MOOR. I rejoice to meet your approbation. Try me; you will find in me a man who is a thorough master of his profession. Examine me; I can show my testimonials of villany from every guild of rogues from the lowest to the highest. FIESCO. Indeed! What canst thou tell me of the lowest class? MOOR. Oh, sir, they are petty villains, mere pick-pockets. They are a miserable set.
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