blackguardness

Updated: May 15, 2025

"I'll tell you now, then; it's schaming to be coming with your lies and your blarney afther a girl like Feemy, only maning to desave her it's schaming to go about humbugging a poor silly owld man like my father, and it's the higth of schaming and blackguardness to pretend to be so frindly to a family, when you know you're maning them all the harum in your power to do.

Anthony Trollope - The Macdermots of Ballycloran