Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend Quotes

“Yes," replied Dick Short.”
― Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend

“To his house--to his house--down with it--death to the traitor!" and the loyal mob hastened on, each individual eager to be first to prove his loyalty, by helping himself to Mynheer Krause's goods and chattels.”
― Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend

“And, as Vanslyperken recalled his misfortunes, so did his love increase for the animal who was the cause of them. Why so, we cannot tell, except that it has been so from the beginning, is so now, and always will be the case, for the best of all possible reasons--that it is human nature.”
― Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend

“The old woman was astonished; and having some gin in her cupboard, revived him by administering a small quantity, and, in the course of half-an-hour, Vanslyperken could tell his story; but all the consolation he received from the old beldame was, "Serve you right too, for being such an ass.”
― Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend

“I must, indeed, have had a sorry taste to be intimate with a blotched wretch like you.”
― Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend