Gwilt

Lydia Gwilt is a deliciously evil heroine, and most definitely a woman of action.

Wilkie Collins’ No Name « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Would I authorize him to say that on that day, and at that hour, the Miss Gwilt who was Major

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I saw the scoundrel with my own eyes, and I should have laid hands on him, if Miss Gwilt herself had not stopped me.

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All I want him to do is to help me (if he can) to speak about a delicate subject to Miss Gwilt, without hurting her feelings.

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“The devil take Miss Gwilt!” said Allan, staring at his legal adviser in a state of helpless consternation.

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If I may be permitted to say so, the man who admires Miss Gwilt lives in Paradise.

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Your character and position are publicly involved in this matter between yourself and Miss Gwilt; and you persist, at a most critical moment, in taking a course of your own, which I believe will end badly.

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There is ill-blood between Miss Gwilt and me the whole day long; and say what I may, and do what I may, she always gets the better of me, and always puts me in the wrong.

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“Why do you want to get rid of Miss Gwilt?” she asked.

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I have got the worst possible impression (though grandmamma says she is a charming person) of Miss Gwilt.

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