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Often has the Rover been seen at night, or just as the sun has been going down, by the King's cruisers, who, having fairly surrounded the thieves, had good reason to believe that they had them already in the bilboes; but, when the morning has come, the prize was vanished, by fair means or by foul!" "And are the villains so bloody-minded that they are called 'Red?"
It would not be going too far to assert, that whilst it scorns the defence of petty villains, of those who still retain the sense of good and evil, it holds forth, like some well frequented sanctuary, a secure asylum to those more finished criminals, who, from long habits of wickedness, are lost alike to the perception as to the practice of virtue; and that it selects a seared conscience and a heart become callous to all moral distinctions as the special objects of its care.
For this reason many men were anxious to prove to him that they were villains, although they really were not such. He would often make men repeated promises, and confirm his promise by an oath or by writing, and then purposely forget all about it, and think that such an action did him credit.
Us they had spared from hanging our gentle blood did us that service; but my father and my three brethren all were stone dead. The Count de Bearn had sworn to put an end to the ravages of the Black Wolf, and, joining with the Montagudos, had done the work, like traitor villains as they were." "And yourself, Gaston?"
The fight was to be at ten, was it not?" he asked. "It was to be." "I dare say it will be, too. Never say die, Tregellis! Your man has still three hours in which to come back." My uncle shook his head. "The villains have done their work too well for that, I fear," said he. "Well, now, let us reason it out," said Berkeley Craven. "A woman comes and she coaxes this young man out of his room.
'And do you mean to say, you villains, cried Jeremy, scarce knowing whether to laugh, or to swear, or what to do; 'that your officers took their dismissal thus, and let you come on without them? 'What could 'em do? asked the little man, with reason certainly on his side: 'hus zent 'em about their business, and they was glad enough to goo.
WISE. Their judgment is, therefore, so much the greater, because thereto is added blindness of mind, and hardness of heart in a wicked way. They are turned up to the way of death, but must not see to what place they are going. ATTEN. Well, but I pray now concerning these three villains that were young Badman's companions; tell me more particularly how he carried it then.
The high-minded Norman was the flower of chivalry and honor, the low-minded Norman the most successful of villains and there has often been a curious compound of both elements in the character of some of the most distinguished Normans whom history has to show. Old Rollo caused his only son to be highly educated, and William of the Long Sword grew up a prince to be proud of.
But he enjoyed everybody in his books: and everybody has enjoyed everybody in those books even till to-day. His books are full of baffled villains stalking out or cowardly bullies kicked downstairs.
Then she seated herself in an out-of-the-way place and quietly waited. Suddenly there was a noise in the corridor and evidence of scuffling and struggling. Then the door flew open and in came the soldiers dragging a great blue billygoat, which was desperately striving to get free. "Villains!" howled the Boolooroo. "What does this mean?"
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