Although invisible locally, disgraced and hiding somewhere at a distance, that blackguardly son was probably still draining the good old man's resources.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
And I should have kept that promise were it not for his brutal and blackguardly acts after the outbreak of war-acts which placed him, with his Imperial father, beyond the pale of respectable society.
"The Secrets of Potsdam"
William Le Queux
I did not know at the time-not, indeed, until fully three years later-how the blackguardly actions of Von Metzsch, who was a creature of the Kaiser, had from the first been instigated by the All-Highest, who, from the very day of the Prince's marriage, had, notwithstanding his apparent graciousness towards her, determined that a Hapsburg should never become Queen of Saxony.
"The Secrets of Potsdam"
William Le Queux