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"Because her Ladyship does not know what she is saying," he replied. "Darest thou! Thou traitor, thou viper, thou unhanged rascal, thou mire under my feet, thou blot on the house! Darest thou beard me me?" screamed my Lady. "Darest thou I say "
"I am not faint-hearted," said Stephen; "but I will not break mine oath to my master." "And thine oath to me? Ha!" said Fulford. "I sware you no oath, I gave you no word," said Stephen. "Ha! Thou darest give me the lie, base prentice. Take that!" And therewith he struck Stephen a crushing blow on the head, which felled him to the ground.
"Why, us bein' friends," said Gyp. "Now, Gyp, my boy. Now!" said Aunt Judith. "Come in and we'll talk it over." "Oo-o-o! Not now!" cried Gyp, "but to-night, if I darest ter, I'll dress up, and come." He slid down from the tall old wooden pump, gave three wild hops, and then raced off across the field toward the old shed-like building that he called home.
'I have no reason to think otherwise, my lord. The frolicker he, the merrier ever was I. 'Darest thou ride him alone in the moonlight outside the walls. 'I dare anything on Dick's back that Dick can do, my lord. 'Doth thy dog know Caspar in friendly fashion, I mean? 'Caspar is the only one in the castle he is quite friendly with, my lord. 'Then is all as I would have it.
"Miscreant!" he exclaimed, "darest thou pronounce the words of the Church?" "I have not quitted her bosom," said Urbain. "Remove the girl," said the President. When the archers went to obey, they found that she had tightened the cord round her neck with such force that she was of a livid hue and almost lifeless.
He sailed for Africa, but was thrown back upon the shores of Italy, was cast into prison, and ordered to execution; but the slave commissioned to carry out the judgment was frightened by the flashing eyes of the aged warrior and refused to perform the act, as he heard a voice from the darkness of the cell haughtily asking: "Fellow, darest thou kill Caius Marius?"
As we stood on the stone steps at the entrance between the great frowning towers waiting for the portcullis to be raised, we felt as if we might be in a Scott or Dumas novel, especially as our Quaker lady repeated in her own dramatic fashion: ". . . . And darest thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall? And hopest thou hence unscathed to go?
"Ha! darest thou, malapert boy," said Spikeman, advancing to Arundel with his arm raised, as if about to strike; but Waqua stepped between them. He had gravely listened to the heated conversation, and supposed he understood its purport. "Let not the wise white man," he said, addressing Spikeman, "imitate a mad wolf in his anger.
"Orders from whom?" said the Varangian. "From my master and yours," answered the negro, boldly. "Thou infidel villain!" exclaimed the angry soldier, "when was it that we became fellow-servants, and who is it that thou darest to call my master?" "One who is master of the world," said the slave, "since he commands his own passions."
Come, you forget yourselves in giving way to such causeless rage. And thou, Gulielmo, leave thy saucy quips. How darest thou thus spoil good cheer?" The youth, with a grieved countenance, turned to go. "'Tis not," he said, "that I fear for threats, especially from Master Jean. Yet since thou commandest, I needs must yield."
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