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'That was smart of the Swabian, said Slimak, 'and did you do nothing to him? 'Why should I do nothing to him? I snatched up a log and hit him over the head two or three times, but the coward started bleeding and gave in; I should have liked to have given him more, but they came running out of their houses and I made off. 'So they didn't catch you?
"'Medje, he said, 'the Frenchman who stole you is in our hands. "'And you will kill him, coward, I cried. "'No, not yet, he replied with a smile; 'look! "I did so, and saw the captain carried on the bier through the low iron gate. "'They will put this Christian, as you call him, in a dark cell and keep him there month after month until he longs for death.
It was not a very distinguished combat; it was Jeremy's first battle, and he knew at that time nothing of the science of fighting. The Dean's Ernest, in spite of his term at school, also knew nothing and the Dean's Ernest was a coward... Jeremy himself was aware neither of time nor prudence. He realised immediately that Ernest was a coward, and this realisation filled him with joy and happiness.
Do not compel me to lead my dear princess to destruction. She who has always been so good to me!" "You still hesitate, miserable coward! Of what importance is the fate of Blondine to you? When you have obeyed my commands I will see that you enter the service of Brunette and I declare to you solemnly that the bonbons shall never fail."
A little while ago the Emperor left the building I suppose he wanted to let people see he is not a coward and succeeded in getting as far as the bridge down at the end of the street. A shell alighted right in front of him; one of his equerries had his horse killed under him. And then he came back he couldn't do anything else, could he, now?"
"Well, I promised you," he said, "and I'll show you that, at least, I'm strong enough to keep my word until you release me from it. I think, though, you don't quite know how hard it is." Mrs. Morgan knew that it was very hard for a true, brave-hearted boy to be called a coward; but she knew, also, that the truest bravery on earth is the bravery of endurance.
"Then your whole service has been abstention from positive treachery for your own ends?" "You dare me? Caution, citizeness! You are in my power." "In your power? You are a coward as well as a knave, then?" "Remember still more," he hissed, losing all control of himself, "that your lover also is in my power; he is captured." "My God! you have brought us to this!" she cried.
Barbara did not know what to do to go on with her search for the newspaper girl, or go back to the White House and raise an alarm. Bab was standing up, but she dared not look at the figure at her feet. She was now more accustomed to the darkness and she did not know what one glance might reveal. "What a coward I am!" Bab thought. Trembling, she put out her hand and touched the body.
"We are prisoners in a secret cell beneath the feet of the statue. There has been great noise and confusion without, and now for some time silence." Then Juanna sprang up and stood over him with flashing eyes. "How dared you do this?" she said. "Who gave you leave to do it? I thought that you were a man, now I see that you are a coward."
He was also a great boaster, and used to crow over the robbers whom he had put to flight; mere men in buckram, as everybody knew. We boys,” he continued, “believed him to be a great coward, and determined to play him a trick.
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