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It follows that if he had been a fool, Urquhart had not! Impudent dog, if you like, but not a fool. Now, for the life of him, James could not despise a man who was not a fool. Nor could he hate one whom he had bested. He did not hate Urquhart; he wasn't angry with him; he couldn't despise him. On the contrary, he was sorry for him.
"Let me set out in the open once, with a good horse under me instead of a specimen of crow-bait, and I'll open your eyes!" But this was not to be just yet. Floyd, too, was a good rider, but his sister had more of a natural knack with ponies, and often bested him in a race. He too, now swung a leg over the saddle and mounted.
And when he could not bear it through, the kings, with their men, fell upon him. But with their father's sword, that hight Balmung, he wrested from them both hoard and land. The princes had twelve champions stark giants, yet little it bested them.
Every newspaper rang with acclaim for the boyish aviator who had shown that one man of skill and daring was a match for the huge Zeppelin. It was the old story of David and Goliath, of the Roman youth who bested the Gaul, of Drake's improvised fleet against the Armada.
"I have had a thousand fights," I said; "and I have never been whipped!" I afterward thought of one or two cases in which bigger boys had bested me, though I had never cried "Enough!" and it seemed to me that it was not quite honest to leave her thinking such a thing of me when it was not quite so. And it looked a little like bragging; but it appeared to quiet her, and I let it go.
'Of a more noble man might I not be slain, said he. 'Also, Sir Lancelot, make no tarrying, but come in haste to King Arthur, for sore bested is he with my brother Sir Mordred, who has taken the crown, and would have wedded my lady Queen Guenevere had she not sought safety in the Tower of London.
Even after this hard fight, when three of his friends lay groaning on the ground when he had in his power the man who had injured them, who had temporarily bested himself Arima's chief thought was still of the papers! He seemed to have none of the semi-barbarian vengefulness that might have been expected. He merely wished the papers wished them the more desperately with every passing moment.
On the upturned face there was that serene look which follows the sudden relief from anguish and pain, and it testified silently before the cloudless heaven that the man lying there under the gaze of indifferent eyes had been permitted to forget before he died. Abdulla looked down sadly at this Infidel he had fought so long and had bested so many times. Such was the reward of the Faithful!
Then, shaking his fist to the war-ship, he almost screamed "Bested for a parcel of cut-throats, by the Powers!" There was no doubt about it at all. The moment the yacht answered to the screw the fog rolled round us like a sheet, in thick wet clouds, steaming damp on the decks; and twenty yards ahead or astern of us you could not see the long waves themselves.
"Why, when this scamp is ready for it. It's it's no use, Miss Kate. I can't stop, or or I'll be forgetting you are a woman, and say 'Damn! I admit you have bested me, but young Bryant hasn't. I " he broke off, laughing in spite of his annoyance, and Kate cordially joined in. "But he will," she cried, as Peter began to move away. "Good-bye, Mr.
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