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Later on he is depicted as a political conspirator, an agent and friend of Mazzini, Kossuth, and the patriots of the Revolution, in connection with whom he is made responsible for innumerable villainies which connect him with the apostleship of dynamite.
God puts such an one among the fools of the world, therefore let not Christians put them among those that are wise for heaven. And the man under consideration is one of these, and therefore must look to fall by this judgment. A professor! and practice such villainies as these! such a one is not worthy to bear that name any longer.
And the men of the public went to their own homes and told their wives and children and neighbors what cruelties and villainies they had unearthed, and their hearers, being men and women of that people, which is a god in intellect and in heart compared with the criticasters that try to misguide it with their shallow guesses and cant and with the clerks that execute it in other men's names, cried out, "See now!
Alone he accepted the task of cleansing London, at that time the most dangerous and lawless of European capitals. Hogarth's pictures give some notion of it in the pre-Fielding days, the low roughs, the high-born bullies, the drunkenness, the villainies, the thieves' kitchens with their riverside trapdoors, down which the body is thrust.
"To think," she exclaimed bitterly, "to think that Fordie, descended from generations of Williams who have pioneered and fought for and built up this country since ever the first Williams landed in Boston in 1666, was done to death by this murderer, this truckster, this political trickster, this outcast from the European gutters, this huckster of lazaretto morals and bawd houses, who is overturning our Nation with his oiled villainies and peddler ways!
Call forth the robber from his cavern, and the midnight murderer from his den; summon the seducer from his couch, and beckon the adulterer from his embrace; cite the swindler to appear; assemble from every quarter all the various miscreants whose vices deprave, and whose villainies distress, mankind; and when they are thus thronged round in a circle, assure them not that there is a God that judgeth the earth not that punishment in the great day of retribution will await their crimes, &c. &c.
"My sister and I introduced Daphne Floyd to Barnes," he said steadily, "and it is my country, as I hold, or a portion of it that allows these villainies. Some day we shall get a great reaction in the States, and then the reforms that plenty of us are clamouring for will come about.
"My dear," said he, "if trees get in a man's way of villainy or incommode his pleasures he will cut them down, depend upon it." "Well, silly boy," she cried, and gave him a peck of a kiss, "and does not that prove what I say, that there are no villainies in Ferrara? For, see, the trees are as thick as a forest." She made him laugh again before many paces.
But her anonymous letter, like most villainies of this kind, was a more fatal and murderous weapon than its base author imagined. The young Marquise, then, mused while stirring the fire, casting, from time to time, a furtive glance at the clock. M. de Camors would soon arrive how could she warn him? In the present state of their relations it was not impossible that the very first words of.
Quoth he, "Thou dost surely jest when thou sayest that thou dost not understand such words. Answer me this: Hast thou ever fibbed a chouse quarrons in the Rome pad for the loure in his bung?" I.E., in old beggar's cant, "beaten a man or gallant upon the highway for the money in his purse." Dakkar's ENGLISH VILLAINIES.
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