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Updated: June 12, 2025
"I was sitting an hour later, on an ottoman in the room outside the bath-room, when I heard voices, and steps, and a moment later my master, accompanied by a little tub of a man, with fatted-hog kind of face, greasy-looking, and wrinkled with fat, out of which peered two tiny black eyes like currants stuck in a bladder of lard and twinkling most villainously, entered the room.
Between them they supported a grimy, unshaven object, covered with whitewash from the wall of the shaft, an object that had its hands fastened together with handcuffs, and that leered at us with a pair of the most villainously crossed eyes I have ever seen. None of us had ever seen him before. "Mr. Lawrence McGuirk, better known as Tubby," Tom said cheerfully.
And notwithstanding that since your departure they and their soldiers have been supported at our expense, and had just received a full month's pay from the States, they have traitorously and villainously delivered the city and the fortress to the enemy, with a declaration made by Stanley that he did the deed to ease his conscience, and to render to the King of Spain the city which of right was belonging to him.
One of their horses was stolen among the mountains by the Snake Indians; the other, they said, was carried off by Cass, who, according to their account, "villainously left them in their extremities." Certain dark doubts and surmises were afterwards circulated concerning the fate of that poor fellow, which, if true, showed to what a desperate state of famine his comrades had been reduced.
From that time on you do not have such a bad time that is to say, you do not suffer so acutely, because you have now got down to the level of the people who go back to Dinard the next year. We came away. The hotels are among the worst on earth musty, old-fashioned, and villainously expensive and one of the happiest moments in my life was the day when I left Dinard for Mont St. Michel. Mont St.
In the meantime they were villainously used and ill-treated by the pirates, besides very hardly worked, so that they sometimes staggered and fell down from the weights they had to carry. Our indignation was great, and, like an impatient army as we were, we implored the commander in chief to give the word of march. We longed to hear him say "Up, guards, and at them."
It was myself. I admit the portrait, though modesty has curbed me short of justice. Doubtless, we have met. It was your umbrella which you held villainously beneath your arm that took me in the ribs when you lighted on a set of Fuller's Worthies. You recall my sour looks, but it was because I had myself lingered on the volumes but cooled at the price. How you smoothed and fingered them!
And fast by it is a little pit in the earth, where the foot of the pillar is yet interred; and there was our Lord first scourged, for he was scourged and villainously entreated in many places. Also in the middle place of the vale of Jehosaphat is the church of our Lady: and it is of forty-three degrees under the earth unto the sepulchre of our Lady.
Teresa's cold, perpetually watchful eyes, always had a disquieting effect upon her; now she was freed from that restraint. Fanny primly sipped her coffee, looking from time to time at her mother, who never once ceased praising her beauty and goodness, and would have compelled her to eat up every bit of breakfast if she could have had her way. Mrs. Meyer's eyes began to sparkle villainously.
"Bright the lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men!" he declaimed, in a disguised voice; then scowled about him villainously, remembering that an affable quoting of Lord Byron is incompatible with the qualities of a man-eating savage. The Bedouin gravely inclined his head. "Allahu Akbar!" he responded, in a soft voice.
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