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There was a little silence, and then Nevers said, slowly: "You are a splendid gentleman." "There is nothing to make a fuss about," Lagardere said, lightly. "I am this little lady's soldier. I came here in a cutthroat humor enough, but since I dandled her daintiness in my arms I've taken a fine liking for her father." Nevers reached out his hand to Lagardere.
The Gaucho, although he may be a cutthroat, is a gentleman; the Guaso is in few respects better, but at the same time a vulgar, ordinary fellow. The two men, although employed much in the same manner, are different in their habits and attire; and the peculiarities of each are universal in their respective countries.
And Blake, striding to the door in response to the half-challenge, half-invitation of the gravely courteous cutthroat owner, stopped short at the threshold, stared, whipped off his scouting hat, and, bowing low, said: "I beg your pardon, señora, señorita; I did not know " and retired in much disorder.
Ole chap didn't want to be paid. Cutthroat mortgage, you know. He'd heerd of the railroad junction. Jemeny! they's five hundred people livin' on Gray's claim, and yourn's alongside." "What does he call his town?" asked Albert. Jim brought his whip down smartly on a lazy wheel-horse, crying out: "Puck-a-chee! Seechy-do!" Then, after a pause, he said: "What does he call it?
The mayor and the Abbé Jeufroy had at once recognised him. He had formerly been a joiner at Chavignolles. "Come, Gorju! take yourself off," said M. Foureau. "You ought not to be asking for alms." "I! Alms!" cried the exasperated man. "I served seven years in the wars in Africa. I've only just got up out of a hospital. Good God! must I turn cutthroat?"
"Heard you the prior's sermon?" said Siric, for that was the fellow, Siric of the Wold; "a fine homily he gave us on St. Brice that man of peace." "It was easy for him to be a man of peace," returned another; "he hadn't got Danes for his neighbours." "Holy Job himself would have turned cutthroat if he had." "Then they have been insulting, robbing, and murdering all over the country."
"Every church for itself, and the angels take the hindmost," is the sectarian motto. The competition which exists in the ecclesiastical realm is almost always cutthroat competition; it destroys property and crowds out rivals with merciless purpose. No argument should he needed to show that the existence of such a spirit and tendency in the church must cripple its power and impede its growth.
The business does not suit me, and I am thinking of leaving it. Sooner or later I shall kill or be killed, and either event will be the death of me, so I am thinking of leaving this cutthroat place as soon as possible." "I advise you nay, I bid you do so by all means, and I should think you had better be gone to-day than to-morrow."
She smiled at Roger, who was no longer a stranger, for the two had had a long talk over their coffee the evening before, and later, with Miss Clifford, had indulged in a little mild cutthroat bridge.
"The honour of the regiment shall not suffer," he said, sternly, "for I myself will meet this German cutthroat." Seeing that his colonel was resolute, Rupert made a sign to Dillon that he might speak, and he accordingly related to his astonished comrades the substance of what Lord Fairholm had told him.
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