"It was like their impudence if they said anything of the sort to you.
"Peter was a bad liver, and almshouses won't cover it, when he's had the impudence to show it at the last.
All this was impudence and desecration, and he repented that he had brought her.
"Infernal impudence!
How can you have the impudence to say that?
" he went on, looking closer, "so this is the way a Christian has the impudence to treat a Mussulman!
" And Agent Fabs had the impudence to try and make our aunt believe all this.