There are riff-raff and refuse always about who are ready to volunteer for any filibustering expedition; and that full as much for the sheer devilry of the enterprise as for any real profit it is to be to themselves.

Wherever mischief is to be done, there your true varlet is sure to turn up.

Well, just such a land-shark was this Ill-pause, who was such an ally and accomplice to Diabolus that he had need for no other.

What possible certificate in evil could exceed this--that the devil took not any with him when he went out on his worst errand but this same Ill-pause, who was his orator on all his most difficult occasions?
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Ill-pause was a varlet, then, and he was also an orator.