Then she wrote a story in which the editor of the Enterprise played the part of a dark and desperate villain who found lodging eventually behind prison bars.
But there was no sign within it of that desperate and defiant villain whom we expected to see.
He has lied to me, the villain, in every conceivable way.
If we make one false move the villain may escape us yet.
And he is waiting, this villain, beside that candle.
"You villain!
" "I was not aware there were eavesdroppers," muttered the detected villain.
If the dead villain could rise from his grave to abuse me for his offspring's wrongs, I should have the fun of seeing the said offspring fight him back again, indignant that he should dare to rail at the one friend he has in the world!
Damn the hellish villain!
It is out of the question my going to see her, however: we are eternally divided; and should she really wish to oblige me, let her persuade the villain she has married to leave the country.
" "It's well the hellish villain has kept his word!
" answered the black villain.
" said he, releasing me, "I see that hideous little villain is not Hareton: I beg your pardon, Nell.
Don't be afraid, it is but a boy—yet the villain scowls so plainly in his face; would it not be a kindness to the country to hang him at once, before he shows his nature in acts as well as features?
" I obeyed; and hemmed, and called the villain Juno, who deigned, at this second interview, to move the extreme tip of her tail, in token of owning my acquaintance.
"So far the villain had succeeded in his wicked design.
" and dart out to give chase and capture the villain now grown too fat to run as he once did.
" * * * * * * Thus it happened that Mother, writing away for dear life at a story about a Duchess, a designing villain, a secret passage, and a missing will, dropped her pen as her work-room door burst open, and turned to see Bobbie hatless and red with running.
Lord, I hear 'em say he's the bloodiest looking villain in this country, and they wonder he wasn't ever hung before.
He was described by Confucian historians and in popular legends as the archetypal shrewd, bold, unscrupulous villain.
