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Come, children, have trust in me show that the daughters of General Simon are no cowards and there is yet hope." By a sympathetic movement, the sisters joined hands, as though they would meet the danger united. Their sweet faces, pale from the effect of so many painful emotions, were now expressive of simple resolve, founded on the blind faith they reposed in the devotion of the soldier.
A battle in the night in the streets of a large city is a fearful thing, at least when cannon are the chief weapons used; but when there is added to this cause of alarm that the news had spread through the city that all the murderers and housebreakers in the prison had been let loose, with arms in their hands, to murder and to ravage the city, an idea may be formed of the terror of a population who were cowards by instinct.
"Want to fight about it?" "Na-a-w," came the sneering reply. "Don't fight with cowards." John turned upon the pair imperiously. "Silvey'n I'll be generals, just as I said. Cut out the quarreling. If you don't like it, you don't have to. Want to quit?" Sid mumbled a sulky denial and retreated to the outer edge of the little group. There he poured out his troubles to the elder Harrison boy.
It was not the leader who had struck the blow which made him lose his hold of Lavinia's arm, but one of the mob for no motive other than a love for brutality. The coachman had forced his way to the front a minute or so afterwards. Almost at the same time a stone hit Lavinia's champion in the cheek, cutting it and drawing blood. "Cowards!" he shouted. "If you're for fighting at least fight fair.
We do not know, but we may believe that he, at least, would have helped her if he could. They were separated by the jealousy of cowards, who feared that the duke might win too much renown and become too powerful. Even the banks of Loire, where the king loved to be, were not free from the English. They held La Charité and Saint-Pierre-le-Moustier.
"Yes, my boy, but that is generally the case," he said smiling. "You were afraid because you were ignorant. Once you know well what you are about, you feel ashamed of your old cowardice." "But it's very shocking to be like that, uncle," I said. "Not at all, my boy. It is the result of ignorance. The more ignorant and uncultivated people are, the greater cowards they seem.
Isn't this world, even this this desert, this pool with the light on it, this silence of the night around us isn't all this a shadow in comparison to the world where we are going, you and I? Boris, I think if we are brave now we shall be together in that world. But if we are cowards now, I think, I am sure, that in that world the real world we shall be separated for ever.
Pressed close, and as it were, girt in with the more hostile groups, dreading to pass for cowards, or to expose themselves to the bad treatment of the majority, they were forced to wait for a more favorable moment to effect their escape. To the savage cheers, which had accompanied the first discharge of stones, succeeded a deep silence commanded by the stentorian voice of the quarryman.
At this imperative summons the shrieking ceased, and we heard a feeble voice within, calling out in French "Mercy! for the love of God!" we could distinguish amidst a plentitude of sobs and violent groans in a deeper key. "Ah! brave Haytians! Have pity, and spare our lives!" "Hang it all, you cowards, we're not those cursed Haytians, and I wish you could have been left to their mercy!
But I kept thinking a man can be so much more than himself when he is alone and it seemed to me that I saw at least two things the world needed to know two things that would teach men to stop being cowards and leaners." Her sympathy was quick and ardent.
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