Crossword-Solution: VIL 3 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

But all the way home to his own hotel, the Major incessantly said to himself, and of himself, “Sly, Sir—sly, Sir—de-vil-ish sly!” And when he got there, sat down in a chair, and fell into a silent fit of laughter, with which he was sometimes seized, and which was always particularly awful.

There was Lorna, my love and life, bound by her duty to that old vil--nay, I mean to her good grandfather, who could now do little mischief, and therefore deserved all praise--Lorna bound, at any rate, by her womanly feelings, if not by sense of duty, to remain in the thick danger, with nobody to protect her, but everybody to covet her, for beauty and position.

This I give in the ancient English in which it was written, and thus it runs: HEAR UNDERNEAD DIS LAITL STEAN LAIS ROBERT EARL OF HUNTINGTUN NEA ARCIR VER AS HIE SAE GEUD AN PIPL KAULD IM ROBIN HEUD SICK UTLAWS AS HI AN IS MEN VIL ENGLAND NIDIR SI AGEN OBIIT 24 KAL.

Does that surprise you very much? Ah, vil esclave! Why, one month of that life would be better than all your previous existence.

Ven you are tired, here are springbok and antelopes, and you can shoot mit your rifles, and ve vil cook them, and you shall zing us zongs of Vaderland.” They thanked him heartily, and said they would stay a few days, at all events.