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It was picked gold quartz of the richest kind, with jewelry specimens on top, and as L. W. ran his hand through it his tight mouth relaxed from its bulldog grip on the cigar. "Where'd you get it?" he grunted and Rimrock's eyes flashed as he answered shortly: "My mine." "How much more you got?" L. W. asked it suspiciously, but the gold-gleam had gone to his heart.
Fry and Hodges advanced upon Mr. Eden, but before they could get at him the huge body of Evans interposed itself. The man was pale but doggedly resolved. "Mustn't lay a finger on his reverence," said he, almost in a whisper, but between his clinched teeth and with the look of a bulldog over a bone. "What, do you rebel against me, Evans?"
We were restless and untrained, with an overplus of spirits difficult to control. Gradually the English Tommy influenced us until we gained much of his steadiness of purpose, his bulldog tenacity and his insouciance. Tommy never instructed us by word of mouth. He lived his creed in his daily rounds. He never knows that he is beaten, therefore a beating is never his.
I flushed with indignation at this rough and cruel treatment, but felt that giving way to anger would only make matters worse; so I made no reply, but took out my handkerchief and dried my eyes. "I thought you were made of better stuff," continued the captain angrily. "I'd rather have a mad bulldog aboard than a water-eyed puppy. But I'll cure you, lad, or introduce you to the sharks before long.
Ah, here it is, and just as well in my hands as in yours!" He had opened the top drawer in the right-hand pedestal, and taken therefrom a big bulldog revolver; it was the work of few moments to empty its five chambers, and hand the pistol by its barrel to the owner. "Curse you!" hissed the latter, hurling it into the fender with a fearful clatter.
An' be the powdhers o' war, he had the convaniences for speech-makin', for he had a jaw like a bulldog, an' a mouth on him ye couldn't span with your two hands."
He shall follow up the clues like a bloodhound, and hang on to them when he's got 'em, like a bulldog." "Oh, but don't let's put off our journey!" Angela exclaimed. "I feel, if we do that, we'll never go. It has always " she half-whispered, "seemed too good to come true." "I'd rather do 'most anything than put off the trip," said Nick. "But there's time for everything.
That ingenious young gentleman replied vaguely but politely, and veiled the whole situation in such a mist of irrelevant detail that the school went in for the second day to the class-room rejoicing with trembling, and not at all sure whether Bulldog might not arrive in a carriage and pair, possibly with a large comforter round his throat, but otherwise full of spirits and perfectly fit for duty.
There, too, his zeal, his unfailing resource, his bulldog bravery, and that indefinable quality which separates genius from talent speedily conquered the hearts of the French soldiery. One example of this magnetic power must here suffice. He had ordered a battery to be made so near to Fort Mulgrave that Salicetti described it as within a pistol-shot of the English guns.
"I know," agreed Andy as he wrapped a big towel about his glowing body and moved toward the door, "but when you're captain it it's a whole lot different. There's Edwards over there. Shall I call him?" The coach nodded. "I think so. He's better than Turner, isn't he? Left end is Turner's position, though." "Edwards'll take to it quick enough. He's got more bulldog than Turner has, too.
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