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Because I laugh at assizes, and great wigs, and the gallows, and because I will not be frightened from an innocent action when the lawyers say me nay, does it follow that I am to have a fellow-feeling for pilferers, and rascally servants, and people that have neither justice nor principle?
Yes, there it is, my beloved, long-lost umbrella, quietly leaning against the wall in a dark corner, behind a pillar, behind a big arm-chair, where nobody ever placed it, I'll take my oath, but this rascally waiter, who expects to get a shilling for showing where he hid it.
Verty looked at the lawyer with a grateful smile, and said: "I don't think that what you said about everybody's being selfish and bad is true, sir. You are very good and kind." "Flummery!" observed the cynic, "I had a selfish motive: I wished to appear generous I wished to be praised I wished to attach you to my service, in order to employ you, when the time came, in some rascally scheme."
I went out, altogether overwhelmed. My joke turned out very badly for me! My uncle became thoroughly converted, and if that had been all I should not have cared so much. Clerical or Freemason, to me it is all the same; six of one and half a dozen of the other; but the worst of it is that he has just made his will yes, made his will and he has disinherited me in favor of that rascally Jesuit!
Another vows, that if trouble wont come, why he will bring it by quarrelling with the first rascally Indian he meets. All is ready. Rations are put up for the men; hams, buffalo tongues, pies and cake for the officers.
But" and the old man shook his head scornfully "I don't think his life at the castle will be a long one! A rascally lawyer to be our master, forsooth!" "Well, Pierre," I said, "at present I intend living there myself, and, I do not suppose Cordel will care to keep me company. Send word to Urie that I shall need his services at daylight, and now we will go to bed; Jacques is half asleep already."
"I wouldn't go back to him. I don't say he's knowingly a rascal, but he's ignorantly a rascal, and he proposed a rascally thing to me. I behaved badly to him, and I'd give anything to undo the wrong I let him do himself; but I'll never go back to him."
"Besides," he said, "no rascally priest has any right to cut off good Christians from communion with the Saviour, and we are sure that our patriarch will give us absolution and send us some more monks." I could make no objection to these arguments; however, I asked on another occasion on what conditions they would return to Venice.
"Who might he be," he laughed, repeating the words he had just overheard; "well, by my troth, Sir George, he does not remember his own servant, even the one he sent about my sack. You have been priming him with his own ale and this is the result. "Not a drop," interrupted the baron. "What do you say?" gasped out the astonished innkeeper. "This rascally knave a servant of mine!
"This rascally crew of cut-throats, whom his villainous highness headed," said Miranda, "were an almost immense number then, being divided in three bodies London cut-purses, Hounslow Heath highwaymen, and assistant-coiners, but all owning him for their lord and master.
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