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Updated: June 27, 2025
He was a man of fifty, of strong build, and masculine. He had good shoulders and good colour, and the eyes, nose, and chin of a man it would be a stupid thing to attempt to deal with in a blackguardly manner. He sat down in his chair by the fire and began to chat, as was his habit before he and his wife parted to dress for dinner.
Riglett shuffled, stood first on his left foot, then on his right, blushed, and finally remarked, as if it were not so much a sound reason as a sort of feeble excuse for the low and blackguardly fact that he wanted his bicycle, that he had got leave for tea that afternoon. Then Mr. Downing remembered.
'Sdeath! one's hair is flatted down like a pancake; and as for one's legs, you had better cut them off at once than tuck them up in a place a foot square, to say nothing of these blackguardly irons!" "The only irons pardonable in your eyes, Ned," said Tomlinson, "are the curling-irons, eh?"
"It's clever journalism," Terry admitted, "but it's blackguardly; and I blame Jones for passing it over." The fourth number eagerly purchased proved more interesting because of its hints of future disclosures rather than for its actual information. Broderick was mentioned by name.
As I talked we ate our supper, and I wish I could have watched Wake's face. He asked questions, for he wasn't convinced in a hurry. I think it was my mention of Mary Lamington that did the trick. I don't know why, but that seemed to satisfy him. But he wasn't going to give himself away. 'You may count on me, he said, 'for this is black, blackguardly treason.
He read, and with an exclamation of violent disgust threw the thing aside. His philosophy failed him for once. "What a blackguardly affair! Does Miriam know?" "I have just shown it her. Evidently she had a suspicion of what was going on." Spence muttered a little; then regained something of his usual equanimity. "Our conjectures may be right," he said. "Perhaps no revelation awaits her."
"Blackguardly, sir blackguardly. Look at your faces, sir, and see how you have got yourselves marked. But er er " He picked his pocket-handkerchief up from where he had spread it over his knees and blew another blast. "This er this er big fellow that you thrashed big disagreeable fellow bit of a bully, eh?" "Regular tyrant, father.
"That's a beastly thing to say of a man whose house you visit almost daily and visit when you have never even met him. You must have been brought up in a blackguardly school." Danvers sprang to his feet with blazing eyes. "You want to pick a quarrel with me. Very good. I'm your man." "That's where you are wrong. I don't want to quarrel with you. I wish to warn you.
For they larn to behave theirsens like gentlemen born, fit for t' fost o' coompany they tell me t' Widdy herself is fond of a good dog and knaws one when she sees it as well as onny body: then on t' other hand a-tewin' round after cats an' gettin' mixed oop i' all manners o' blackguardly street-rows, an' killin' rats, an' fightin' like divils.
His thoughts were not pleasant company. For there he was upon his uncle's property, feeling that not only had he come down there in the character of a thief, but circumstances had forced him into taking for confederate about as low-typed and blackguardly a young scoundrel as there was for twenty miles round.
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