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'The moment, said he, and his voice ran shiveringly through my heart like a dagger, 'the moment Morton Devereux discovers who is his rival, that moment his death-warrant is irrevocably sealed!" "Arrogant boaster!" I cried, and my blood burned with the intense rage which a much slighter cause would have kindled from the natural fierceness of my temper.
Being a drunkard and a boaster he was sent to Paris to get drunk and to boast. The horror of the blackness, the damp, the foul smell, and all this treachery made her voice faint. She stammered: 'Shew me a light, or let the door be opened. I am sick. 'Neither, he answered. 'I am as much as you in peril. With a light men may see in at the casement; with an open door they may come eavesdropping.
That he was brave we know, but so was Cataline; that he believed in himself we like to believe, and so did Arius of Alexandria; that he carried the people with him is certain, and so did they who crucified Jesus; but that he was a turbulent fellow, a puritan, a vandal, a boaster, a wind-bag, a discredited prophet, and a superstitious failure, we also know, as he doubtless did at last, when the wild beast he had roused had him by the throat, and burnt him in the fire he had invoked.
With proud disdain The youth now flings him headlong on the plain, And quick dismounting, on his heaving breast Triumphant stands, his Khunjer firmly prest, To strike the head off but the blow was stayed Trembling, for life, the craven boaster prayed.
"A hundred men accustomed to war, sword in hand, are worth ten thousand archers in a surprise. Where is Menneville, that boaster, that braggart, who was to come back either dead or a conqueror?" "Well, monsieur, he kept his word. He is dead!" "Dead! Who killed him?"
One day as I was staring at him, he asked me whether I knew him. "By George, sir!" I exclaimed, "know you! Why, did we not fight side by side at the battle of Arbela?" At those words everybody burst out laughing, but the boaster, nothing daunted, said, with animation, "Well, gentlemen, I do not see anything so very laughable in that.
In fact, Mackenzie thought, it looked as if he had been running with his eyes shut, making boastful pledges. He might have to hedge on some of them, or put them through at a cost far beyond the profit. It came that way to a boaster of his intentions sometimes, especially so when a man spoke too quickly and assumed too much.
The other Indians, who seem to have understood this cowardly boaster, received his story with shouts of laughter. But Knight was very glad to make off with his gun and ammunition, and leave them to settle the affair among themselves. When he came to the prairies he hid himself in the grass and waited till dark before venturing to cross them, and by daybreak he was in the woods again.
Thy people took us in by their fires and made us warm, nor asked whence or why we wandered. It was their thought that Old Kinoos had lost the sight of his eyes from age; nor did Old Kinoos say otherwise, nor did I, his daughter. Old Kinoos is a brave man, but Old Kinoos was never a boaster.
"I thank you," he said, with the same manly frankness he had always shown; "I have no desire to appear as a boaster or to make light of danger, but one of the truest adages is that it is not the barking dog that does the biting." "Don't make the mistake of supposing it is not so in this case," said Whitney, "and none should know it better than you."
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