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He was well aware, he said, that in her girlhood she had had a rascally young attorney as a lover and had thereby incurred her grandfather's anger. Henrietta, poor thing, had not the spirit to answer him back: "If you knew this, why did you marry me? Why did you not leave me then to him with whom I should have been happy if poor?" She could only reply with tears.
"I was taught that lesson," answered the youth, "by a rascally forester of the Duke of Burgundy. "What did you do?" said the merchant. "Beat him," said the youngster, brandishing his staff, "as near to death as one Christian man should belabour another I wanted not to have his blood to answer for."
Look at that rascally fellow cutting my mule with a whip! I will most certainly have your colonel shot!" "I think not, madam; you have too tender a heart." "Yes," said she complacently, "that is the truth. I am not stern enough. But fancy" and here she went all over her calculations again, winding up with the assertion that we were a set of common thieves and rogues.
Sady and I, you must know, are marching on foot now, and my horses are carrying baggage. The Pennsylvanians sent such rascally animals into camp that they speedily gave in. What good horses were left 'twas our duty to give up; and Roxana has a couple of packs upon her back instead of her young master.
Jane seized the opportunity afforded in the confusion to beat some of her worst enemies quite severely, and afterwards said, that she had intended to kill some of the rascally informers. For a time Jane made us laugh so much at prayers, that the Superior forbade her going down with us to morning prayers, and she took the opportunity to sleep in the morning.
"My Lord," says I, going up to him, and thrusting my face full in his, "you will be pleased to know that I am a Gentleman, whose ancestors were ennobled centuries before your rascally grandfather got his peerage for turning against the true King." "I'll Jacobite your jacket for you, you Jackadandy!" I retorted. "You have most foully insulted me. I know your Lordship's ways well.
"This hand is disguised a little, but I think I know it. I am sure I do! The dirty little rascal!" "Madam!" cried Bella, aghast with surprise at this language. "I tell you I know the writer and his rascally motive. You must lend me this for a day or two." "Must I?" said Bella. "Excuse me! Papa would be so angry."
Levelling his glass at this sight, Ahab quickly revolved in his pivot-hole, crying, "Aloft there, and rig whips and buckets to wet the sails; Malays, sir, and after us!" As if too long lurking behind the headlands, till the Pequod should fairly have entered the straits, these rascally Asiatics were now in hot pursuit, to make up for their over-cautious delay.
Besides, Black Roger Audemard must be at least a thousand miles north, unless something had tempted him to come up the rivers with the spring brigades. If he used logic at all, there was but one conclusion for him to arrive at. The man in ambush was some rascally half-breed who coveted his outfit and whatever valuables he might have about his person.
Whereupon, the rascally burglarious peasants, their foes, fell to picking their visors; as burglars, locks; or oystermen, oysters; to get at their lives. But all to no purpose. And at last they were fain to ask aid of a blacksmith; and not till then, were the inmates of the armor dispatched.
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