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By inflaming the boorish indignation at a little frolic of our young men; and by coming with insolent demands, to yield to which would ruin us. Ah, you ungrateful viper!" And with many bitter pangs for I have bad things to repent of I began at my leisure to ask myself whether or not this bill of indictment against John Ridd was true.
His cheeks were no longer pale, far from it, no more than Katharina's were; they were crimson! How bright his eyes were, how radiant with satisfaction and gladness! She only wished she were a viper to sting them both in the heel! At the same time Paula had lost none of her proud and noble dignity and he?
The public press, which was hostile to both the parties, made the worst of the affair; but they leaned to the Baronet, and affected to pity him, as having been stung by a viper of his own fostering. The truth was, that the press upon this occasion, as upon all others, had a leaning to the Aristocracy, and Sir Francis Burdett was no mean part of the Aristocracy.
My own is a serpent's lair, and I pity the pangs that rend yours also. But after a little while, your viper will find a file, mine, alas! not until death arrests the slow torture. To-morrow afternoon I shall be where? Only God knows."
Had a viper raised its head in M. Wilkie's path he would not have recoiled more quickly. "Never!" he exclaimed. "Ah, no! What do you take me for?" This repugnance was sincere; there could be no doubt of that, and it seemed to give Madame d'Argeles a ray of hope. "I have misjudged him," she thought. "Poor Wilkie! Evil advice has led him astray; but he is not bad at heart.
"I would have deemed Lucifer too gracious a monarch to place a noble lady of my rank with these vulgar furies," complained one, who much resembled the others, but was far more hideous than a winged serpent. "Oh, that he would send hither seven hundred of the basest demons of hell in exchange for thee, thou poisonous hellworm," cried another ugly viper.
I cannot start at the presence of a serpent, scorpion, lizard, or salamander: at the sight of a toad or viper I find in me no desire to take up a stone to destroy them.
It tried to suck him back into the maw of the city. He fought against it with his shoulders and his knees. He tried now to run. It sucked him back. A wandering Aissaoua plucked at his sleeve and held under his nose a desert viper that gave off metallic rose glints in its slow, pained constrictions. "To the glory of Sidna Aissa, master, two sous."
I don't think she knows when we are in the room, unless we tread upon her gown, when she screams out 'Little viper! and hits us with her fan." "The lightest touch, Papillon; not so hard as you strike your favourite baby." "Oh, she doesn't hurt me; but the disrespect of it! Her only daughter, and nearly as high as she is!"
"Who then lay a bleeding corpse on the threshold, slain by the murderous Syrians?" continued Jasher, with yet fiercer action; "who but Abishai, the brave, the faithful, he who had denounced the viper, and had sought, but in vain, to crush it it was he who fell at last a victim to its treacherous sting!"
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