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Surely nothing, thought the captain, will convince the old rascal now; and he moved off in disgust.

Now a sudden rage filled me against this old rascal.

That was about the end of the old rascal.

The old rascal was saying that he would raid the temple treasury for him.

Typical of the old rascal not to give warning!

So go and tell the police you did, you old rascal.

Now, we'll have one more, and tell the damned old rascal that I'll expect him in the morning.

What you failed to explain is why the devil I should put myself out for the old rascal.

Incidentally, what happened to those two old rascals in the end?

It's still there, hidden wherever that old rascal put it.

How should you understand an old scoundrel like me?

The old scoundrel wished me better luck here than I had at his store the other night.

"I have a great deal of respect for the old scoundrel."

Now I know why you told the old scoundrel he should come to the hospital.

When that old scoundrel comes back, do not let him know that we have found out anything.

I hate to say anything good about the old scoundrel, but he has one outstanding ability.

Lisa still loved the old scoundrel and they reconciled on his return.

I thought the old scoundrel wasn't talking to me.

But the old scoundrel, whoever or whatever he may be, is a sort of fixture.

After the effort of dragging himself through the snow by his arms, the old scoundrel wouldn't make it back.

"Oh, what does an old reprobate like you know about punkins, or anything else for that matter?"

You probably earned it, servicing the old reprobate for how long?

Then it's time we set to work to clean up this mess the old reprobate left us.

So she's captured your heart too, you old reprobate.

You are an old reprobate, and I don't know why you've lived so long.

Not a torturer really, just an old reprobate who can't keep out of trouble and is always given the jobs no one else wants.

But there is no need for you to bother any further with an old reprobate like me.

The old reprobate had decided when he'd reached late middle age that defense was going to be secondary to comfort.

But the old reprobate would only go to sleep, and the talking would start again.

"That swindling old reprobate used to hand out these pieces right and left," she went on.

Maybe the old villain thought I couldn't do without him.

Jik's an old villain, but he's not bad to us, really.

I begged her to let me be killed rather than trust herself into the hands of this old villain.

He had been sent this devious old villain for some purpose.

I know he's an old villain, a murderous one - and he smells a bit - okay, a lot.

I wouldn't go back to the old villain if I were you.

Here's the old villain with his head on a jug!

And then Barnaby knew for sure that the old dark villain had to die.

In this last respect, we may say at once that the old villain was bitterly disappointed.

"And it's a good thing neither half of the old villain don't know what master means to do," he thought.