Ay, this cowardly villain, whose heart's blood shall yet clot upon this hand, dared to strike my son with his open hand, to kick him, to tear hairs from his moustache to use him thusand thusand thus!"

So I resolved to be at hand if succor should be needed; and, having waited till you were all fairly out of sight and hearing, I followed slowly and stealthily, and reached the verge of the thicket just in time to hear the warning cry of your noble dog, and see that dastardly villain spring upon you from the bush.

"No; who is she?" "Miss Bartley," said the villain, very gravely and solemnly, "she is his wife.

That gets tiresome after a time, but everything can be set right with one downright rascally villaina villain, mind you, that poor, weak women, know nothing about.

Caught at last, ha, ha, ha, the saintly villain!

But what else can one expect from a couple of the basest scoundrelly villains?" Nanni di Baccio Bigio had, as it seems, good friends at court in Rome.

Besides, he hath not been afraid to rail on you, my lord, who are now appointed to be his judge, calling you an ungodly villain, with many other suchlike vilifying terms, with which he hath bespattered most of the gentry of our town.

"None, mistress; but 'twould be a dread villain verily who would carry the engines of his trade abroad in daylight to betray him."