malice

I see nothing in it but your own wilful ignorance and the malice of Mr.

There is no gainsaying the fact that a very unfavorable construction would have been put upon the circumstance if the two women had gone without escort, while the addition of a third, in the person of her mother’s admitted lover, enabled Mademoiselle Danglars to defy malice and ill-nature.

What had she done to excite the malice of an enemy?