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Belcher, and listened to the stories of the proprietor's foul dealings with the people of his native town. His own relatives had been straitened or impoverished by the man's rascalities, and the fact was not calculated to strengthen his loyalty to his employer. He heard also the whole story of the connection of Mr.
The minister related many a touching incident in the lives of the departed, too, which illustrated their sweet, generous natures, and the people could easily see, now, how noble and beautiful those episodes were, and remembered with grief that at the time they occurred they had seemed rank rascalities, well deserving of the cowhide.
Junction of the Two Hemispheres The First Contact with Persons Acquainted with European Habits Interruptions and Plots The Mysterious Mahamed Native Revelries The Plundering and Tyranny of the Turks The Rascalities of the Ivory Trade Feeling for the Nile Taken to see a Mark left by a European Buffalo, Eland, and Rhinoceros Stalking Meet Baker Petherick's Arrival at Gondokoro.
But he appears to have had a deep vein of ingrained vice in his composition, which perpetually impelled him to crooked paths. Various ugly stories were current about him, for all of which there was doubtless more or less foundation. It was said that he had been caught cheating at play, and that he was an adept in all the rascalities of the turf.
She knows nothing about Denham's rascalities, and she certainly did not commit the murder." "Are you so sure that Dane is the culprit?" asked Giles. "Yes, I am sure. He was at Gravesend on board that yacht, and when the so-called Wilson came by train from London, Dane rode over from Tilbury on a motor-bicycle. They met on that night, and then I expect Denham induced Dane to murder the girl.
Catch them then, and you need not fear that we shall treat you like the Pied Piper of Hamelin. You have committed sundry rascalities, no doubt? A pardon shall be made out for you. You want a patent or a privilege for your ratsbane? You shall have it. So to work, in the name of St. Muscipulus! and you may keep the tails and skins."
I got the words 'Upper Marlboro' and 'South River' and 'next voyage, and that profligate rector wanted to know as to how 'Griggs was reliable." I thought no more of it at the time, believing it to be some of the small rascalities they were forever at. After that, when we went back to Annapolis for the winter, there was no longer any disguise between my tutor and myself.
I shall die in ten minutes know it vill bet all the money I've got that I do I'm sorry for all my rascalities." He ceased to speak, and placing his hand upon his breast, groaned as though suffering terrible pain. The blood from his wound flowed on unceasingly. "Cheer up, old friend," I said, encouragingly.
"So he no longer amuses himself with petty rascalities," thought Chupin, as he surveyed the rooms. "Monsieur's working on a grand scale now. Decidedly this mustn't be allowed to continue."
Day followed day, and year succeeded year, a long series of horribly anxious nights, violent feelings, mental perturbations, crafty and subtle schemes, a complete cycle of rascalities, an entire science of covering up tracks, and the perpetual shadow of justice, prison, and perhaps the scaffold.