Where we come from, people allow a man to go free after exhausting all the resources of the law, while here, they quietly hang a scoundrel when they catch him without making any fuss about it.
However, there he is, and all the perfumes of the Vale of Blackmoor will not suffice for dispelling the strong odour of the footlights which pervades every scene where this unconscionable scoundrel makes his appearance.
I've got him faster than his scoundrel of a father secured me, and lower; for he takes a pride in his brutishness.
There was another rapid glance at the house, and supposing himself unseen, the scoundrel had the impudence to embrace her.
It must be the doing of that scoundrel Miles Gaffin," he exclaimed, "as his lugger is the only vessel lying off the mill.
Very likely," replied Timothy; "but it was the best thing the scoundrel could do, after all.
I only know that I received from the scoundrel a pistol-shot aimed full at me, but which, fortunately, only grazed my arm.
Anticipating the fate that awaited him, thisscoundrel was dejected.
He drags her about to every Capital in Europe to make money for him, and the scoundrel pays her with blows.
Immediately atop of this regret that he had not been more explicit, he flared at himself and decided that he would have been an inexcusable scoundrel had he done anything of the sort.
Hauke thought of the tattered, adventurous fellow who had sold it: "The chap was a fool, or a scoundrel who had stolen it!
A capital reason; and you have been left exposed to the coarse language and ill-treatment of the first scoundrelwho thought proper to insult you.
March," the Captain shouted, and added mentally, "I will not let this scoundrel out of sight during the march.
They are as necessary as the plague and leprosy; but I stick to what I said, he is the most perfect scoundrel I ever saw; and the Lord knows the magnificent collection I have come across during the course of my life!
I have nothing to say, except to ask you to return the scoundrel who is the cause of the whole mishap.
And then I thought more and more of there being a feeling in the blacks' minds that their hour was coming, or that ill-looking scoundrel would never have dared to insult a white woman in open day.
The scoundrelhad as many lives as a cat, and what did he care for the other?
But why did that scoundrel of a Jochen say just now that he didn't know where he was?
If he is really the scoundrel I think him, it will be difficult to outwit him at all events.
Was it that scoundrelwho assisted in the fraud and posed as your husband?
Yes, Stuart, your marriage was an amazing one, secured by a scoundrelwhose influence was far-reaching; but even that event was not one whit more astounding than those that followed.
I was to commit perjury and thus shield this mysterious scoundrel Markwick as well as herself, in order to learn some facts about the woman I had loved.
She had not thought him a scoundrel when he fastened her mask for her.
He may be a scoundrel to the very core of his heart.
Do you imagine you are the only scoundrel in Paris?
They continued their journey toward Beauvais, with only one clew to the scoundrelwho had murdered and robbed the faithful Rouzet.
Such a scoundrel as she may have thought me was not fit to live.
How is it your fees to this scoundrel Legrand have not been paid?
She despised him for his mean deceit; by her direction he had been punished; yet with the knowledge that he was a scoundrelcame the conviction that he was a brave man.
Certainly, I will tell him," said Barrington, wondering if such a man as Lafayette could have heard of such a truculent scoundrel as this.
Thinking me to be as big a scoundrel as himself, he was ready to betray his country by pushing me up the ladder of promotion if I would only help him in his blackguardism.
I suppose you brought this disreputable oldscoundrel here.
If that scoundrel has lied, then there is a trap set, but if it is the truth, surely your place is at Valmy?
Before you plead for this scoundrel again, you ought to know that he has tried by every means in his power--by lying and by forgery--to fasten the origin of all this infamy upon your brother.
Oh, there is nothing in this world which gives one so perfect an idea of retribution as the long melancholy howl of the disappointed envious scoundrel when he sees his supposed victim smiling on an altitude far above his reach.
It shows that Bampfylde-Moore Carew was not such a scoundrel as was Tom Jones the hero of Fielding’s novel; and in that attempt the author does not fail.
Send that obstinate scoundrel down; don't you hear me calling?
Liar and scoundrel you are, in every action of your life; theft is your trade; and double dastard you must be, or you were not here today.
Take this,' and flinging him a couple of gold pieces, which the scoundrel swooped at like a hawk, I turned the mare's head and trotted off.
The scoundrel drank it there and then, and as soon as he had done so returned to the charge.
The Duke seized Glumboso, the Ex-Prime Minister, and made him refund that considerable sum of money which the old scoundrel had secreted out of the late King's treasure.
Fling any scoundrel who says a word down among the lions!
My cot is swinging and jerking up to the beams, as if the lively scoundrel was some metamorphosed imp mocking at me.
To try and save you from the French scoundrel with whom he thought you had eloped.
You were robbed; I saw you lying, as I thought, dying, and I saw the scoundrel who had done all this escape.
You are a scoundrel and a cur, who dare not show your face or you would not have dashed out that light.
Till thatscoundrel got hold of her and cursed her life," groaned Leslie.
Always late, and as soon as he was settled down to his work, in must come that scoundrel with the French name to ask for him, and get him away.
It was his wretched scoundrel of a friend, and if Harry struck down poor Van Heldre, it was in his horror of being taken.
Look here, Leslie, my old signet ring that scoundrel took from a nail over my chimney-piece.
