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He believed he could enter into their minds and feel the truth of all their lives the hardened outlaw, coarse, ignorant, bestial, who murdered as Bill Black had murdered, who stole for the sake of stealing, who craved money to gamble and drink, defiantly ready for death, and, like that terrible outlaw, Helm, who cried out on the scaffold, "Let her rip!"
Harry, standing near his commander, and awaiting any order that might be given him, saw new masses of the enemy advancing along every road and through the fields. The Union colors, held aloft in front of the regiments, snapped defiantly in the wind. And those western riflemen, from their cover, never ceased to pour showers of bullets upon the Southern lines.
"Thirty-five thousand! Well, I think that that is just too much," Ricky said defiantly. "Why didn't they get paid in real money?" "Being loyal to the South, the Ralestones probably would not take what you call 'real money," replied Charity. "It's nice to know how wealthy we once were," Val observed. "What are you going to do with that wall-paper, Rupert?" "Oh, chuck it in my desk.
"I am the restless spirit of Elsie Maclean, come back to guard her grave." In another instant he was at her side, and laying his hand on the white netted shawl with which she was veiling her features, he tore it away, and Salome's fair face looked defiantly at him. "If I had known that my pursuer was Dr.
I feel that you and I must understand each other before we part for all time, and, therefore, I sent for you." She paused, drooping her head, unable to meet his searching, steady black eyes riveted upon hers; and, drawing his tall athletic figure to its utmost height, he asked defiantly
"I ain't got no committee; and I ain't got no place to meet nobody; and I don't know what in thunder you're after." Then came Mrs. Roberts to the rescue: "Why, Mr. Bolton, you can meet at our society parlor, you know; it is the very place, and will be so convenient for Miss Dennis." "What's to meet, and what's to do?" said Dick, defiantly. "I ain't going to meet nobody."
Mother nagged at me for being idle, and the old man said he would cut my soul out of my body rather than let me go to sea. Well, it looked as if he would do it too so I went. It looks to me sometimes as if I had been born to them by a mistake in that other hutch of a house." "Where ought you to have been born by rights?" Bessie Carvil interrupted him, defiantly.
"Earnest, Colonel Forrester. What other course could I expect an officer to take?" "Then, if it be in earnest, sir no; I ride not with you to help to bolster up a tyranny which makes every true man in England blush for his country." "Colonel Forrester!" "Sir Godfrey Markham!" There was a pause, during which the two old friends gazed defiantly at each other, and then Colonel Forrester continued
"No; it is the truth. I felt sure of it before, and now I know it. You took him in order to extort money from his friends." "Well," said the ruffian, defiantly, "what if I did? Have you anything to say against it?" "Yes," said Jasper. "I shall have to wring your neck by and by," muttered Dick. "Well, go on. Spit out what you've got to say."
Why will not the advice suit both, par nobile fratrum?" In conclusion, he tells his friend that the next morning, if Heaven permit, he begins the fifth volume of Shandy, and adds, defiantly, that he "cares not a curse for the critics," but "will load my vehicle with what goods He sends me, and they may take 'em off my hands or let 'em alone."
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