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His physiognomy denoted great simplicity, a certain amount of brutality, and probable failure in the past to profit by rare educational advantages. He remarked that Paris was awfully jolly, but that for real, thorough-paced entertainment it was nothing to Dublin. He even preferred Dublin to London. Had Madame de Cintre ever been to Dublin?
Blount was always out for his interest and Honest John would skin a dead flea." "Honest John!" challenged Wiley, looking up from his eating with an ugly glint in his eye, but the Widow was far away. "Yes, Honest John Holman," she sneered, without noticing his resentment. "They called him Honest John. Did you ever know one of these 'Honest John' fellows yet that wasn't a thorough-paced scoundrel?
"That must be very strange," was all that Dion said just then; but a little later on he stayed with his mother longer than usual that day because poor little Omar was dead he remarked: "D'you know, mater, I believe it's the right thing to be what's called a thorough-paced egoist at certain moments, in certain situations." "Perhaps it is," said his mother incuriously.
This, however, depends much on the political principles of those who happen to be on guard: an aristocrate or a constitutionalist will read a letter with his eyes half shut, and inspect bedding and trunks in a very summary way; while a thorough-paced republican spells every syllable of the longest epistle, and opens all the roasted pigs or duck-pies before he allows their ingress.
He seemed not displeased to be an object of terror and loathing, for thus he was somebody. Then, for a thorough-paced scoundrel, as this man seemed to be, what delight to make his enemies languish in slow torment by casting spells on them with perfect impunity. "And sacrilege carries one out of oneself in furious transports, in voluptuous delirium, which nothing can equal.
Colonel Wugsby kissed her eldest daughter most affectionately, and frowning in a warning manner upon the other, sorted her cards. Poor Mr. Pickwick! he had never played with three thorough-paced female card-players before. They were so desperately sharp, that they quite frightened him.
"It will be heavier before the account's settled, sir." "You shall have your tilt at 'em, Oliver. You'll enjoy it, and I've no fear as to the result. But take care! Ride in the middle of the road, and keep your eye on every bush. Brocton has half a regiment of thorough-paced blackguards at his service and will compass hell itself to fetch you down. What about money?"
This man, who was the most respected amongst his countrymen, was called in the Tagal language, "Mabutiu-Tajo," which may be translated the "bravest of the brave" he was a thorough-paced robber, a real piratical chief; a fellow that would not hesitate to commit five or six murders in one expedition; but he was brave, and with a primitive people bravery is a quality before which they bow with respect.
I suppose the boundary line between influenza and idiocy is a very narrow one. He is lié with Philip Sheldon too another thorough-paced scoundrel in a quiet gentlemanly way, unless my instinct deceives me. October 12th. There is treachery somewhere. Again the Haygarthian epistles have been tampered with.
'A butcher, repeated Mr. Roker, giving the nib of his pen a tap on the desk to cure it of a disinclination to mark. 'What a thorough-paced goer he used to be sure-ly! You remember Tom Martin, Neddy? said Roker, appealing to another man in the lodge, who was paring the mud off his shoes with a five-and-twenty-bladed pocket-knife.
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