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"Now may God speed ye, for ye are brave and worthy men." It was, indeed, a task which might make the heart of the bravest sink within him. The thin cord dangling down the face of the brown cliff seemed from above to reach little more than half-way down it.
However, the bravest workers on the underground railroad were black. If they were caught, especially in the South, they would have to pay the ultimate price for their heroism. The best known of all the black conductors was a brave runaway slave woman named Harriet Tubman.
He spoke in slow words and weighty, and more than once his voice broke in his sorrow. He told of the grievous misfortunes that had overcome the country, of the death of hundreds of its bravest warriors, of the slaughter of the priests and soldiers that day on the teocalli, and the desecration of his nation's gods. What was to be done in this extremity? he asked.
"For her part in this fine capture little Jeanne in time received a letter from the President of the French Republic, thanking her in the name of France for her quick wit and for her heroism." "You already have heard of some of the heroic little despatch bearers of France," said Captain Favor. "I shall now tell you of little Henri, one of the bravest and most resourceful of them all.
Our poor gentleman turned pale with horror at this speech, and the ejaculation of "Good heavens! what do I hear?" burst spontaneously from his lips; nor can we wonder at this, though he was the bravest of men; for her voice, her looks, her gestures, were properly adapted to the sentiments she exprest.
"You say you have heard your husband speak of the prisoner Ray; how has he spoken of him?" "How? as the bravest gentleman in all England!" said the woman eagerly. Sim lifted his head, and clutched the rail. "God it's true, it's true!" he cried hysterically, in a voice that ran through the court.
I couldn't say, I'm sure. 'Mother, wouldn't you say the soldier was the bravest? 'Perhaps I might, sonny; but a sailor can be quite as brave. Teddy's face fell. 'I never thought a sailor could fight at all, he said, in a disappointed tone; 'I thought they just took care of our ships, and now and then fired a big gun off. 'Who's been bringing up the sailors to you? asked his grandmother.
Harley then briefly related to Leonard the particulars of the exile's history, the rank he had held in his native land, the manner in which, partly through the misrepresentations of a kinsman he had trusted, partly through the influence of a wife he had loved, he had been drawn into schemes which he believed bounded to the emancipation of Italy from a foreign yoke by the united exertions of her best and bravest sons.
This did not damage the low flat ships of the Greeks, but it caught the high-sterned Persian ships, over-weighted as they were with lofty decks, and presented their broadsides to the Greeks, who eagerly attacked them, watching Themistokles because he was their best example, and also because Ariamenes, Xerxes's admiral, and the bravest and best of the king's brothers, attacked him in a huge ship, from which, as if from a castle, he poured darts and arrows upon him.
They had been counting out the man whom Barbara Harding had once loved! the man she had thought the bravest in the world! they were making a monkey and a coward of him! He'd show them! The "white hope" was waiting for him. Billy was scarce off his knees before the man rushed at him wickedly, a smile playing about his lips. It was to be the last of that smile, however.
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