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See if I do not bring a nobler one than all of yours together! So he said boasting; and yet he felt in his heart that he was braver than all those scoffers, and more able to do some glorious deed. 'Hear him! Hear the boaster! What is it to be? cried they all, laughing louder than ever. Then his dream at Samos came into his mind, and he cried aloud, 'The head of the Gorgon.
He resumed, however: "Father, I let you see my weakness. I love life and I do not leave it without regret." "Sir," replied the monk gently, "take heed, you are a braver man than I, and nevertheless death troubles you more. What does that mean, if not that I see the light, which you do not see yet?"
Yet the ambitious mind lacks not fuel for its fires; the youths imagination peopled the woody solitudes with braver company than courts could boast vivid, unreal dream-people, whose shadowy presence increased his longing for the actuality. The very winds whispered mysteriously of coming triumphs, and as he listened his unrest grew greater.
In the wide space of Smithfield, destined at a later day to blaze with the fires of intolerant bigotry, crowded London's holiday population: and yet, though all the form and parade of chivalry were there; though in the open balconies never presided a braver king or a comelier queen; though never a more accomplished chevalier than Sir Anthony Lord of Scales, nor a more redoubted knight than the brother of Charles the Bold, met lance to lance, it was obvious to the elder and more observant spectators, that the true spirit of the lists was already fast wearing out from the influences of the age; that the gentleman was succeeding to the knight, that a more silken and scheming race had become the heirs of the iron men, who, under Edward III., had realized the fabled Paladins of Charlemagne and Arthur.
Nevertheless the moment had come at which our banishment had become intolerable. Another day, and I should have proposed an assault upon the place. Our dead forefathers, though I would speak of them with every respect, should not presume upon their privilege. I do not pretend to be braver than other men, nor have I shown myself more equal than others to cope with the present emergency.
Such things will happen; we must be prepared for them. It was nothing in myself that dimmed your world." "Another time I will be braver, then," she told him, "and even in the darkness I shall know you close, ah, very close to me...." For a long, long stretch of time, then, they stood joyfully together and watched the lilac growing. They also saw the movement of the sun across the sky.
I waited for the elder lady to speak, and my own surprise was great at her brave proposition for it was brave, braver than she knew; and I was asking myself if I had the right to let her go to meet an adventuress at the least, a criminal possibly. But her aunt gave the decisive word. 'My dear June, thee knows I do not like a mystery.
The insects, instead of flying towards him, formed a dense mass above his head, where they seemed to hover as if contemplating an attack. Some, braver than the rest, occasionally flew towards him; but he, with perfect coolness, brushed them away, allowing the smoke to circle round above his head, thus keeping them at a distance from his face.
Soon after Yaroslav Lasarevich also arrived, and they all fell to feasting and making merry. When Yaroslav went out of the tent Ivan said: "My beloved Princess, tell me, is there in the world a fairer one than thou art, or a braver knight than my brother Yaroslav Lasarevich? I have gone far and wide and have not found thine equal." "Nay," replied the Princess, "there are yet fairer than I am.
I lit the candle, felt for the knife behind the picture, and opened the door. As soon as the candle was alight I felt braver, and I looked out of the door before going into the passage. I could see nothing all seemed quiet so I came out of the room and locked the door behind me and went downstairs. "Once I was outside the house and could see the friendly stars all my fears vanished.
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