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Don't you know what it means to say you're 'great pals' with any one? You ARE an odd child!" It was too much. "Oh, Bugs!" said Penrod. This bit of ruffianism had a curious effect. Fanchon looked upon him with sudden favour. "I like you, Penrod!" she said, in an odd way, and, whatever else there may have been in her manner, there certainly was no shyness. "Oh, Bugs!"
Then a torrent of feelings swept over me wild fear for her I loved, and impotent fury against the miscreant who had dared even to conceive so foul a sacrilege. To think of her beauty subject to such coarse ruffianism! I pictured her bound and gagged and carried along through the brush in the bestial grasp of filthy negroes, and it seemed as though my brain would burst at the thought.
Such were the efforts of John Imbize such the calumnies of Peter Dathenus in order to counteract the patriotic endeavors of the Prince; but neither the ruffianism of John nor the libels of Peter were destined upon this occasion to be successful. William the Silent treated the slanders of the scolding monk with dignified contempt.
The Amiens station, a very large one covered in with glass, was crowded with Prussian soldiers; and for one hour I stood there the witness of and sufferer from unmitigated ruffianism. The French were knocked about, and pushed about. Never were negro slaves treated with more contempt and brutality than they were by their conquerors.
Such are Bill Sikes, whose ruffianism has an almost epic grandeur; and black-hearted Fagin, the Jew, receiver of stolen goods and trainer of youth in the way they should not go; and Master Dawkins, the Artful Dodger. Such, too, is Mr. Bumble, greatest and most unhappy of beadles. Comedy had predominated in "Pickwick," tragedy in "Oliver Twist."
Only fools were honest, only cowards kissed the rod, and failed to meditate revenge on that world of respectability which had wronged them. Each new-comer was one more recruit to the ranks of ruffianism, and not a man penned in that reeking den of infamy but became a sworn hater of law, order, and "free-men." What he might have been before mattered not.
There are castes in rascality as in all other trades, classes, professions, and mysteries, honorable or dishonorable, and this latest pair of knaves belonged patently to the more amiable caste of ruffianism a higher or a lower caste, as you may be pleased to look at it.
It is by such men's work and sacrifices that we shall stamp out ruffianism, and lift our State to a high respect for law and order. "What shall I say concerning the lady who this day becomes his wife? He might have searched the State over, and not found so suitable a life companion.
But you asked me for my opinion, marquis, and I have given it to you." Despite these forebodings the winter of 1790 passed without disturbance at the chateau. In the spring came news of disorder, pillage, and acts of ruffianism in various parts. Chateaux and convents were burned and destroyed, and people refused to pay either their taxes or rents to their landlords.
It may be admitted that if the language of Wilkes's enemies in the two Houses was strong even to ruffianism, Wilkes could and did give them as good as he got in the way of invective and vituperation. The Government, goaded into fury by this daring provocation, resolved to make an example of the offender. Lord Barrington brought the letter formally before the House of Commons.
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