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Captain Sanglier here and Arrowhead, this brave Tuscarora, have both informed me that this unfortunate boy is the traitor. After such testimony you can no longer oppose my right to correct him, as well as the necessity of the act." "Scelerat," muttered the Frenchman. "Captain Sanglier is a brave soldier, and will not gainsay the conduct of an honest sailor," put in Jasper.
He called himself a vieux scélérat, and watched the progress of feelings which he felt did him credit with extreme satisfaction. He and Ruth arrived at the church porch all too soon for Dare; and though he had the pleasure of sitting on one side of her during the service, he would have preferred that Charles, of whom he felt a vague distrust, had not happened to be on the other.
He must come back to her. I shall tell him so." But at that Bertrand laid a nervous hand upon his arm. "My friend," he said, "you will not persuade him." Max looked at him, and was confronted by eyes of gleaming resolution. "I believe I shall," he said. "I can persuade most people." "You will not persuade him," Bertrand repeated. "That scélérat has poisoned his mind.
"If this cursed accident had happened but one day sooner or later, I could have left her a fortune but a superb fortune; only one day sooner I had it two days ago or to-morrow I should have had my revenge last night of that scélérat that devil that Legros, and won back the money he cheated me of, he he of all men, a mere beginner, a smatterer ah! if I had been the man I once was, it would have been a different account to settle "
Vulgar prejudice against the great it may be; but prejudice against the great is only a rude expression of sympathy with the poor; long, therefore, may fat epiciers blubber over mimic woes, and honest proletaires shake their fists, shouting "Gredin, scelerat, monstre de marquis!" and such republican cries.
"Ah! the /scelerat/!" said Philip, smiling, "'tis a sad dog, but very clever and /loves me/, he would be incomparable, if he were but decently honest." "At least," said I, "he is no hypocrite, and that is some praise."
La Fontaine and other fabulists maintained that the wolf, even in morals, stood higher than man; and in view of the late civil war, Adams had doubts of his own on the facts of moral evolution: "Tout bien considere, je te soutiens en somme, Que scelerat pour scelerat, Il vaut mieux etre un loup qu'un homme." It might well be!
Madame Duval looked puzzled, and replied in French, with a laugh, "Is it that you were told that I spoke English by your countryman, Milord Sare Boulby? Petit scelerat, I hope he is well. He sends you a commission for me, so he ought; he behaved to me like a monster." "Alas! I know nothing of Milord Sir Boulby. Were you never in England yourself?"
The sound of the piano in the drawing-room brought her down earlier than usual for dinner, and she found Bertrand playing softly to himself in the twilight. He had a delicate touch, and she always loved to hear him. She had with difficulty trained him not to spring up at her entrance, but to-day he turned sharply round. "Christine, what did that scélérat say to you?"
"As you please" said her husband indifferently, taking up his paper. "But M. de Hauteville has retired from the scene: he had a carriage waiting, and has crossed the frontier by this time. I assure you he is perfectly safe Switzerland." There was a taunt in his voice which exasperated his wife's temper almost to madness. "Scélérat!" she said, in a hissing, unnatural voice.
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