Thereat the Angel of Compassion did most shamelessly and
wickedly laugh.
The poison was alleged to have been
wickedly and feloniously given by the prisoner to his wife Sara, on two occasions, in the form of arsenic, administered in tea, medicine, "or other article or articles of food or drink, to the prosecutor unknown." It was further declared that the prisoner's wife had died of the poison thus administered b y her husband, on one or other, or both, of the stated occasions; and that she was thus murdered by her husband.
He did not return the blow, or complain to the doctor; he only looked at me
wickedly, and said: "I'll be even with you for that, some of these days." I soon forgot the words and the look.
"Upon my word, sir," cries Sophia, "I must belie my heart
wickedly if I did.
I could not picture a father treating a dying child as tyrannically and
wickedly as I afterwards learned Heathcliff had treated him, to compel this apparent eagerness: his efforts redoubling the more imminently his avaricious and unfeeling plans were threatened with defeat by death.
So he merely threw himself into his glittering throne and tipped his crown over his ear and curled his feet up under him and glared
wickedly at Blug.
"They ARE adorable animals, aren't they?" she said
wickedly.
He, who was sheer bladed steel in the imperious flashing of his will, could swashbuckle and bully like any over-seas roisterer, or wheedle as
wickedly winningly as the first woman out of Eden or the last woman of that descent.
In a few minutes, and while all the party stood looking on, the King regained the use of his eyes, and the first thing he did was to glare
wickedly upon the Scarecrow and exclaim:
Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth; that was to say, by coming and going, between the dominions of our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, and those of the said French Lewis, and
wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise evil-adverbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North America.
"Why did you
wickedly and viciously send the Rain of Stones to crack and break our houses?" he continued.