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"Yes, from the lady herself, m'sieu'." "Then bring the lady here and let us have it out, monsieur. It's a lie. Bring the lady here, if you know her." Roudin shrugged a shoulder. "I know what I know, and I don't have to do what you say no no!" "Then you're not honest. You do me harm by a story like that. I challenge you, and you don't respond.
I've tricked you all, and it's up to you to stick me against a wall and shoot me as I deserve, if you feel that way. For I'm Buckskin Bill I'm Fortescue and I'm several kinds of a fool to think I could ever carry it through. Now you know!" With defiant recklessness he flung the words. They were more of a challenge than a confession.
The Bishop turned his eyes to the figure of the Redeemer upon the cross, self-sacrifice personified, while the Prioress mastered her emotion. Then: "'Love never faileth," said the Bishop gently. But the Prioress had regained command over herself, and the gentle words were to her a challenge. She donned, forthwith, the breastplate of holy resolve, and drew her sword.
Such appeals to the God of battles were common in the north, and he accepted the challenge. There is an island in the Severn, then called Oleneige, now called Olney Island. The following day both armies gathered together on opposite banks, and the two kings, clad in splendid armour, were wafted thither. Alfgar, having landed his lord, retired with beating heart to the English bank.
When he found himself face to face with him, he said: 'if you are not a coward, you will give me one hour's liberty, and we will fight to the death; I hate you for this, I despise you for that' and so on. The colonel accepted the challenge, and gave your father his liberty till the morrow. The duel was a desperate one; the colonel was left for dead on the spot." "Merciful heaven!"
But the light in his case was tempered and passive; in Kelland's it danced, and changed, and flashed vivaciously among the students, like a perpetual challenge to goodwill. I cannot say so much about Professor Blackie, for a good reason. Kelland's class I attended, once even gained there a certificate of merit, the only distinction of my University career.
"Certainly not," he answered with a trace of a harsh sneer outlined on his face. "If they get killed, I am sorry. If they live, they are useful. If they are lost, others take their places. They are merely a part of the general scheme. They are for me to use." His words were like a challenge. He watched her curiously as if awaiting her reply.
Blood is everywhere protected by four policemen. One of the bullets aimed at him passed between his back and the back of the chair he was sitting in." "I have only one argument for the country folks who talk of Home Rule. I challenge them to show me a single industrious man in the whole country who is not well off. They can't do it. What Ireland wants is not Home Rule but industry.
Julia said nothing again, as if to give him a chance to address her some challenge that would save her from gushing; but as his impulse appeared to be to change the subject, and as he changed it only by silence, she was reduced to resuming presently: "I should have thought you'd have come over to see your friend the actress." "Which of my friends? I know so many actresses," Peter pleaded.
Nevertheless, there was something in Watson's manner that called for no challenge; something that would have brooked no refusal. And the general, although a sceptic, was acting solely from force of habit when he objected: "It seems to me, Watson, that you " Those who were present are not likely to forget it. Some men are born, some rise, to the occasion; but Watson was both.
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