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"Already have I told you that you need fear no betrayal." "Need I not?" he sneered. "Ma foi! but I know these ruffians. There is not an ounce of honour in the whole National Convention." "Fool!" she blazed, rising and confronting him with an anger before which he recoiled, appalled. "Do you dare to stand there and prate of honour you? Do you forget why he stood his trial?
'By hell! roared the Dead Man, foaming with rage 'dare you disobey the orders of your Captain? Villain, do you seek your own death? 'Dare? exclaimed the Doctor, tearing off his mask, and confronting his ruffian leader with an unquailing eye 'dare! Why, thou white-livered hound, I dare spit upon and spurn ye!
I knew that Johnston was receiving reinforcements from Bragg, who was confronting Rosecrans in Tennessee. Vicksburg was so important to the enemy that I believed he would make the most strenuous efforts to raise the siege, even at the risk of losing ground elsewhere. My line was more than fifteen miles long, extending from Haines' Bluff to Vicksburg, thence to Warrenton.
"What is the meaning of all this? Who knocked Cass Diamond down?" "I had that honor!" coolly remarked Ned Harris, stepping boldly up and confronting the Deadwood card-king, for it was the notorious Chet Diamond who had asked the question. "I smacked him in the gob, Chet Diamond, for calling me a liar, and am ready to accommodate a few more, if there are any who wish to prefer the same charge!"
The eldest was a son, and to him was given his father's name. It was to this child that destiny had assigned the heroic work of confronting the aggressions of Great Britain on the American colonists, and of inspiring the latter to forcible resistance. James Otis, Junior, was born at a place called Great Marshes, now known as West Barnstable, on the 5th of February, 1725.
And then confronting her, their faces not a foot apart, for by now she had got to her feet, his hands gripped together and shaking, his teeth clenched, his eyes glowing there in the half-light of the auditorium, almost like an animal's, he demanded, "Can't you see what's the matter with me? Haven't you seen it yet? My God!" Of course she saw it now, plainly enough.
Whatever the situation confronting her might be, she was the prime mover and the initiative was hers. What strange motive could lurk behind her calm surety and singleness of purpose? "I can tell you where she goes, if you want to know!" Angie said suddenly and turned with a mendacious inspiration on her brother. "So could Vernie. He saw her! It's to a little frame cottage away up on the Parkway."
As each felt the pressure of the situation in which they stood, he quitted the grasp of the other's hand, and fell back, confronting each other with looks more calm and sorrowful than expressive of any other passion. The Sub-Prior was the first to speak.
'I asked you a few days ago, said Elizabeth, mildly confronting him. 'I am sorry if it inconvenienced you. 'Oh, all right all right, said the Squire hastily. 'I had forgotten all about it. Well, anyway, we have lost a great deal of time. His voice conveyed reproach. His greenish eyes were fierily bent upon her. Elizabeth sat down at her table without reply, and chose a pen.
Patricia was too elusive to be followed, even mentally. As a matter of fact, Patricia was, at that hour, confronting the biggest question of her life. Heretofore she had always left her roads of retreat open, had, in fact, availed herself of them at critical periods; but this time she had, she believed, so cluttered them that they were practically impassable and she said she "didn't care."
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