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It is by no means certain that I shall ever burden you with the place at all." Then the young man was angry in his turn. "Don't threaten me, sir," he said sharply; "I am not a boy any longer to be cowed by rough words, so keep your threats for others. You would disgrace the family and disgrace yourself, if you left the property away from the title."
He was not perhaps a coward, but he had not that special courage which enables a man to fight well under adverse circumstances. He had been cowed by the unexpected impertinence of his rival, by the insolence of a man to whom he thought that he had obtained the power of being always himself as insolent as he pleased.
Along the sheltered strip of beach between the river bank and the water was a confused mass of humanity several thousands of men. They were mostly unarmed; many were wounded; some dead. All the camp-following tribes were there; all the cowards; a few officers. Not one of them knew where his regiment was, nor if he had a regiment. Many had not. These men were defeated, beaten, cowed.
His voice changed from the cynical callousness to a deep note of gravity: "You need not even tell me in words that you sent the forgery you have given me ample proof. That subject is finished but I will make you listen to the recital of some of your vile deeds." The note grew sterner and his eyes held her cowed.
It kills most of us. We start out with brains to use and eyes to see with and hands to make with and we end up by thinking nothing and seeing nothing and making nothing that hasn't been thought and seen and made for the last two thousand years. Most of us, even when we know what is happening to us, are cowed and blackmailed into surrender.
But Périne screamed and Plon waved him energetically back. Finding his prisoner cowed he launched some strong invectives at him. "You're a thief and a cut-throat, that's what you are!" he said, shivering. "Keep off, keep off! You could no more stand in Jean Didier's shoes than you could in mine, for he was a decent, peaceable young fellow, and more than that, he was shot.
And though at this time he was not above thirty years old, he had a great name for wisdom and sagacity, and, indeed, by these qualities chiefly, he overthrew Crassus, who first through his overweening confidence, and afterwards because he was cowed by his calamities, fell a ready victim to his subtlety.
But take with you my bitter curse no empty anathema! but one that will cling to you like the garment of flame that wraps the doomed heretic! Begone! accursed wretch hideous in soul as you are abhorrent and repulsive in person." Cowed, but muttering wrathful words, the stricken wretch hurried out of the apartment, into which Juanita instantly rushed. "Magdalena, what means this?" she cried.
"I want no lectures from you, sir. I know my business," exclaimed the man of God, with rising color. "Ah, I fear that 'business' is to coin the blood of Jesus of Nazareth into golden guineas." The infinite pity in the speaker's voice cowed the pugnacious preacher, and he was about to pass on; but a brown, toil-stained hand the hand of a carpenter was laid upon his shoulder. "Wait, my brother.
Superintendent proved equal to the occasion; he looked at them with his resolute eye, and he cowed them with his military voice. "Now, then, you women, go down-stairs again, every one of you; I won't have you here. Look!" says Mr. Superintendent, suddenly pointing to a little smear of the decorative painting on Miss Rachel's door, at the outer edge, just under the lock.
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