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At the end he adds, that although he knows one ought not to write about such matters, yet the man's "insolence and blackguardly shamelessness of speech" compel him to put his friend on his guard against such calumnies. It comes upon me in return for the kindness I have shown them. But what else can one expect from a couple of the basest scoundrelly villains?"

"There," he said to the fellows, who had thronged in from all the dormitories at the first hint of a fight, "I, a sixth-form fellow, have condescended to thrash that base coward there, whom all you miserable lower boys have been making an idol and hero of, and from whom you have been so readily learning every sort of blackguardly and debasing trick.

Somehow, though he had been prepared for bluster and even violence, he had not expected incredulity. Coningsby filled and emptied his glass a second time before he answered. "No," he said then, with sudden savagery: "I don't believe you! You had better get out of my house at once, or I warn you I may break every bone in your blackguardly body yet!" He turned on Carey, leaping madness in his eyes.

'Oh, quite friendly, and all that. He hasn't anything against you. 'Confound his cheek! Does he do you think I've nothing better to do than to offer myself to be thumped by every blackguardly bruiser who comes along? 'Softly, mate; no need for hard names. We come here as sportsmen, making you a fair offer, thinking, perhaps, you'd be glad of a bit of a rough-up this fine day.

"Your arrival, Smithers," said the other, as Bob entered the store, "is very opportune. I have just discovered a blackguardly black fellow stealing tobacco, and it appears from my storekeeper's account, he is a servant of Mr. Ferguson. What would you propose we should do with him?"

"Someone did speak, others did not; but I'll answer for everyone, I spoke out." "Bravo!" cried Jerry. "What did you say, sergeant?" "I said it was a blackguardly, cowardly thing to say behind a man's back." "Yes; and what then?" cried Jerry, breathlessly. "Then?

This was not a little enhanced by the newspaper reports, which described Raffles as a handsome youth, and his unwilling accomplice as an older man of blackguardly appearance and low type. "Hits us both off rather neatly, Bunny," said he. "But what none of them do justice to is my dear cup. Look at it; only look at it, man! Was ever anything so rich and yet so chaste? St.

We know from copybooks and other sources that these two young men, starting on the down grade with the help of their blackguardly legal adviser, were objects for pity, more so than the man who was about to lose a certain number of dollars.

It's bounded by a yew hedge, beyond which there is a path shaded by mulberry-trees. The hedge is low. The path is dark. It was a blackguardly thing to do, but I thought of nothing except myself, my wrong, and how I was to wipe it out. I opened the wicket, came into the path, and stood there under the mulberry-trees behind the hedge. Here I was in cover, and could see the road.

"He kept his body twisted around somehow. It was a blackguardly thing to do." "It was horrible!" she murmured. There was an interruption. The piece of tattered curtain which concealed the portion of the room given over to Isaac, and which led beyond to his sleeping chamber, was flung on one side. Isaac himself stood there, his black eyes alight with anger. "Liar!" he exclaimed.

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