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That a brilliant mood was the one thing the skilled laborers in possession of her house could not furnish. He gallantly defied any laborer in the world to be so skilled as to get Katie out of a brilliant mood. She told him that was silly, that she had grown very stupid. He challenged her to prove it.
They had been much nearer that grim fortress than either had guessed. At the outskirts of the town they were challenged by Austrian sentries, through which Maenck passed with ease after the sentinel had summoned an officer. From this man Maenck received the password that would carry them through the line of outposts between the town and the castle "Slankamen."
The eyes of the girl whose glove he had trodden upon still challenged him from the starlit darkness, eyes made of starlit darkness themselves. He followed the broad black line of the river between its sweeping curves of lamps, broadening out seawards into hazy dimness.
The burly De Clisson, however, restored the hopes of the attackers by beating to the ground Sir Thomas Wake of Yorkshire. So far, there was little to choose betwixt challengers and challenged. "By Saint James of Santiago!" cried Don Pedro, with a tinge of color upon his pale cheeks, "win who will, this has been a most notable contest."
And he that had erst challenged to be so doughty waxed wan as they might all mark and shrank together and his pitch that was before so haught uplift was now of a sudden quite plucked down and his heart shook within the cage of his breast as he tasted the rumour of that storm.
"Sent my valet to Trevanion with an old coat of mine, my compliments, and my hopes that, as Mr. Trevanion was so fond of my cast-off conveniences, he would honour me by accepting the accompanying trifle." "He challenged you, without doubt?" "Challenged me! No: he tells all his friends that I am the wittiest man in Europe." "A fool can speak the truth, you see," said Clarence, laughing.
"It is my own foolishness if I am disturbed. I really had nothing to do. Mr. Thew has been most considerate." "In any case," Jocelyn Thew went on, "I think that the matter had better be discussed another time, when we are alone. We might have to make reference to things which are best not mentioned in a public place." For a moment the young man's eyes challenged his. Then they fell.
Whether Pericles was ever actually tried on this accusation is uncertain; but at all events, if he was, there can be no doubt that he was honourably acquitted. The gold employed in the statue had been fixed in such a manner that it could be detached and weighed, and Pericles challenged his accusers to the proof. But Phidias did not escape so fortunately.
He observed, that what he had done was in obedience to the dictates of common humanity, which would have prompted him to assist any fellow-creature in distress; but that her peculiar virtue and qualifications were such as challenged the utmost exertion of his faculties in her service.
Levert, who had been pacing up and down the deck in his absorbed and inattentive way, dropped his blade across my shoulder and challenged me to the foils. "No, it is too early yet," Achille replied, "besides, we were talking of other things. As you were saying, comrade, you go ?" "Oh, you two talk too much," Levert broke in again, "let us have a bout; I'm half a mind I can handle a foil myself.
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