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Nigel went to her assistance, but not without a glance at the open window; which Martha, as acute as if undisturbed either by passion or terror, failed not to interpret justly. "Fear not," she cried, "fear not; they are base cowards, to whom courage is as much unknown as mercy. If I had had weapons, I could have defended myself against them without assistance or protection.
"Easy enough for you to say what I ought to do. Look at who my friends are the Fromes and the Merrills and the Gilmans. Best set in town. I strained a point when I broke loose from them to take up this progressive fight. They'd cut me dead if a story like this came out." "I daresay. Communities are loaded to the guards with respectable cowards.
"You were cowards," said Jerry with judicial scorn, "and you gave way to your cowardice. That is why you should be punished. Everybody will laugh at you about this, and that is a disgrace to the family." "If you knew how awful the whole thing was," said Faith with a shiver, "you would think we had been punished enough already. I wouldn't go through it again for anything in the whole world."
"Alas, sir! he is the man who set free the four men at Wrokesham Bridge last night." "Set free! Are they not hanged and dead?" "We we dared not tell you. But he came upon us " "Single-handed, you cowards?" "Sir, he is not a man, but a witch or a devil. He asked us what we did there. One of our men laughed at his long neck and legs, and called him heron.
Fired at the treachery of these people, and the great loss of men they had sustained, and besides, not being prepared for a conflict, the Lenapi consulted on what was to be done; whether to retreat in the best manner they could, or to try their strength, and let the enemy see that they were not cowards, but men, and too high-minded to suffer themselves to be driven off before they had made a trial of their strength and were convinced that the enemy was too powerful for them.
"That man has been condemned to death by the laws of his country," he continued. "But he is innocent!" "Child!" he said. He took Mademoiselle de Cinq-Cygne by the hand and led her from the hut to the plateau. "See," he continued, with that eloquence of his which changed even cowards to brave men, "see those three hundred thousand men all innocent.
We must note that it was the people who said, 'These be thy gods, O Israel! Aaron seems to keep in the rear, as it were. He makes the calf, and hands it over, and leaves them to hail it and worship. Like all cowards, he thought that he was lessening his guilt by thus keeping in the background.
"It is very strange," the captain growled. "They must have killed him and thrown him into the bushes somewhere; they cannot possibly have taken him prisoner, as he would have called out for help. I cannot understand it at all." Just as he said that, bright flames shot up in the direction of the inn on the high road, which illuminated the sky. "Scoundrels! cowards!" he shouted.
"Eh! little one," he said on the landing, in a low voice, "these men are greater cowards than I should have thought. With such men France will always be at the mercy of whoever dares to lay his hands upon her!" And he added, with some bitterness, as though speaking to himself: "The monarchy is decidedly becoming too honest for modern times. Its day is over."
Meanwhile the shouts and booing of the hostile portion of the audience just augmented by a number of rough-looking men from the neighbouring brickfields prevented most of the remarks delivered by the male speaker on the cart from reaching the audience. "Cowards!" said an excited woman's voice "that's all they can do! howl like wild beasts that's all they're fit for!"
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