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That's where I had him bested, Howard. All through the hot fight I kept saying over and over to myself that I knew the man." "But you don't know him, Stuart; that is the weak link in the chain." Lidgerwood turned away to the scratched window-panes and the crude prospect, blurred now by the gathering shadows of the early evening.
Of course I shouldn't have put him ashore. But I felt as if I meant to when I said it." "Then you are not so very much dissatisfied, captain?" said Sir Humphrey. "Yes, I am, sir, for I don't like to be bested. No man does, especially by one of these clever 'Merican chaps. For they are clever, there's no getting over that."
Rather I would in every way beseech your gentleness and favour, for I am now worse bested than ever, having lost my way, my cloak, and my poor horse. To have a riding-rod and spurs, and never a horse to sit upon! And before all," he added, looking ruefully upon his clothes "before all, to be so sorrily besmirched!" "Tut!" cried Dick. "Would ye mind a ducking?
Bundercombe," he concluded, "I am afraid I must advise you, very much against my own inclinations, to settle this matter." Mr. Bundercombe left the lawyer's office thoroughly depressed. "It isn't the money!" he declared gloomily. "It's being bested by this little gang of thieves that irritates me!" "I am sure," I told him, "that Mr. Wymans' advice is sound.
But now, even though he might have bested his own vanity in spite of the car windows, Blue Jeans would not permit it. Blue Jeans had been quick to see where this might lead and spoke with malicious calculation. "I thought your horse wanted water?" he drawled, as the superintendent paused to consider his course. "Pshaw! He ain't so plumb crazy for it!" That settled it.
"But Slade who was always a damned sight worse than Antrim is still a-kickin'. An' Slade ain't the man to let things go halfway. Them boys from the other outfits bested him, all right. But Slade will be back you'll see. An' when he comes we'll be squarin' things with him an' don't you forget it!" It was after Lawler had been occupying the cabin for a month that Metcalf made his second visit.
There were no railroads in that part of the country in those days. My sister's husband bought 3,000 acres of land near Paris, at $1.25 per acre, and the same land is now worth $300 per acre. During my trip up the river I formed the acquaintance of Sam Burges, who was a great circus man. Captain Riddle and Burges got to paying poker, and the Captain "bested" him for about $200.
Treaty of Westphalia in all its stipulations, with precautionary improvements, was re-enacted as Treaty of Altranstadt; with faithful intention of keeping it too, on Kaiser Joseph's part, who was not a superstitious man: 'Holy Father, I was too glad he did not demand my own conversion to the Protestant Heresy, bested as I am, with Louis Quatorze and Company upon the neck of me! Some improvement of performance, very marked at first, did ensue upon this Altranstadt Treaty.
Probably nobody in all the Earth, but his old Wife in the Schloss of Altenburg, has any pity for him, if even she, which I hope. He has fought and diplomatized and intrigued in many countries, very much; and in his old days is hard bested.
"I do, and I don't," answered Reckage doggedly. "But I can't close my eyes to the circumstances of the case. I found myself hard bested from the very beginning. I knew that I was expected to marry her. I knew, too, that it was a suitable match in every way. But then every girl is, to some extent, accomplished, pious, virtuous, and intelligent.
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