Word: scoundrels
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...interested glance he may perhaps take in Professor Haring's lecture concerned with our unruly neighbor to the South, but the Vagabond's real thoughts are on the morrow. For tomorrow Massachusetts celebrates Patriot's Day, and the Vagabond, not to be outdone in the last refuge of a scoundrel, intends to lead his followers to water and to worship at the historic shrines of Lexington and Concord...
...simple ever to have conceived of it. He lived in a world governed by the axioms which he had tried vainly to teach to his small boys. Consequently when he fell in love with the mistress of the politician Castel-Benac, she easily persuaded M. Topaze to become that scoundrel's unconscious tool. And even when M. Topaze learned the truth and spent his days quivering with remorse and fright, and disguising his voice over the telephone, he still kept his position out of his love for the siren...
...catch the scoundrel who sewed up that poor dog's mouth as reported in the press, ship him to Dallas. We have a way of taking care of those fellows...
...which Michael persuades her to accept. Striving toward greater respectability than the law allows them, the two are married, thus laying themselves open to prosecution for bigamy. Of course the wayward husband eventually returns. In an attempt to blackmail Michael, who is by this time a prosperous novelist, the scoundrel's insolence leads to a scuffle and he falls dead of a heart attack. Still seeking the highest moral good, Michael and Mary decide to conceal the truth of the incident from the courts for their son's sake. A decade later, when Michael explains the whole history...
...Samuel Johnson (1709-84) became an issue in the trial. Prosecutor Pomerene cited the fact that the great lexicographer had called patriotism the last refuge of a scoundrel. Quick to see his chance Defender Hogan roared to the jury that this Englishman had vilified American revolutionary leaders, had advised a yardarm hanging for George Washington...