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Step by step we have been studying the inmost thoughts of the Advocate as revealed in his secret and confidential correspondence, and the reader has been enabled to judge of the wantonness of the calumny which converted the determined antagonist into the secret friend of Spain. Yet it had produced its effect upon Maurice.
It could scarcely be hoped that she would bring down her antagonist the first time she set lance in rest. She was carefully kept out of sight during the intervening days; no one saw her; no one had any acquaintance with the fact of her existence.
The main body remained comparatively motionless, while the chief rode out in advance and headed toward his antagonist, his horse upon a slow walk, and moving with great caution. Sut Simpson was not to be caught napping. No one understood the sneaking character of Lone Wolf better than did he.
Manassas was not, like Austerlitz and Salamanca, won by veteran soldiers, commanded by trained officers, perfect in drill and inured to discipline. Lee's strategic manoeuvres were undoubtedly hazardous. But that an antagonist of different calibre would have met them with condign punishment is short-sighted criticism.
Hiram's punishing fists were finding their target more frequently now, for the truck man's defense was failing him. He was slowing up breathing hard gulping. "Guess it's time to stop it, Gentle Wild Cat," complacently observed Jim McAllen. Then Hiram finished it. He crowded his big antagonist and beat him to his knees with blows that seemed to be skull crushing.
But the strain upon him was greater even than she perhaps could realise. Besides the intestine war in his office, he had to face a constant battle in the Cabinet with Mr. Gladstone a more redoubtable antagonist even than Ben Hawes over the estimates. His health grew worse and worse.
Toby gained little by this, for Miss Susan only kicked him the harder; whereon, up I rushed and hit my tall messmate a blow between the eyes, which made lightning flash from them, I suspect. Spellman instantly let go Toby and sprang at me. I stood prepared for the onslaught. Blinded by my first blow, my antagonist hit out at random, and though double my weight, was far from getting the best of it.
Still Hurry did not hesitate, but the kick that had actually destroyed one fellow creature was no sooner given, than he closed in with this formidable antagonist, endeavoring to force him into the water, also. The struggle that succeeded was truly frightful.
It may be supposed that at her present age of twenty-three, a wife, a mother, and with a modest consciousness of her own place and position, she was not a less difficult antagonist. She was still a little frightened, and grew somewhat pale, but she looked steadfastly at Mr. Rushton with a nervous smile. "I think you must not speak to me so," she said.
"Allah-il-Allah!" he cried, slowly backing the charger out of range. The Count repeated the challenge through his trumpet, and sat upon the stone again; but no other antagonist showing himself, he at length descended from the heap.
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