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Gledware may be a witness for him, that I can't think about anything but the danger at the cove. I feel that I ought to be there, to lend a hand; what will you do without me, if that horrible highwayman comes slipping around Turtle Hill, or creeps down the north mountain in the dead of night? And I would be on my way there, now, if I didn't hope to find out more about their plans.
The highwayman checked his horse to a walking pace when he came to this dip, and went slowly down, and slowly climbed the opposite ascent. He patted the mare's neck, and spoke to her in whispers. "Well done, my beauty! Unless all the fates are against us we have got in front of the coach. The glory is yours. I know no other that could have carried me as you have done to-night.
Marcia called to him through the curtained door that led to the next room "I am waiting, Commodus." "By Jupiter, when she calls me Commodus it means an argument! Are some more of her Christians in the carceres, I wonder? Or has some new highwayman By Juno's breasts, I tremble when she calls me Commodus!" The gladiators laughed.
"Whatever happens, it won't interfere with our personal friendship, even if you think me a highwayman and I think you a " "A fanatic," Holder supplied. He had risen, too, and stood, with a smile on his face, gazing at the lawyer with an odd scrutiny. "An idealist, I was going to say," Langmaid answered, returning the smile, "I'll admit that we need them in the world.
A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, 'Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer! To be sure, what the robber demanded of me my money was my own, and I had a clear right to keep it; but it was no more my own than my vote is my own; and the threat of death to me to extort my money, and the threat of destruction to the Union to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle."
A few miles beyond the river having just crossed a deep branch two hundred yards wide, the axletree broke, and away rolled one of the back wheels." When she said that river fords were her greatest danger, she must have forgotten an encounter with a highwayman. She was making a stage journey in Michigan, and noticed with some consternation that the driver carried a brace of pistols.
"Two hundred I gave to the furrier four hundred to the saddler three hundred to the grocer three hundred to the tailor: two hundred I spent in the market: count how much remains." "None of your arithmetic for me. I only want money, much money! Where is much money?" "As I said already, at Körmöcz, in the mint." "Enough of your foolery!" threatened the highwayman.
"If one of us went down, the loss would not be great. Keep your big guns safe to beat other battleships into scrap." For you may be sure that Fritz was on the watch in the open. He always is, like the highwayman hiding behind a hedge and envying people who have comfortable beds.
"But in the service of my country." "Are you a Kentuckian?" "I am." "And your service is to roam over your native State, killing, robbing, plundering your fellow-citizens; a highwayman, a thief, and a murderer," continued the lieutenant very severely.
A dozen or more were cut off in this way, and soon it came to be whispered about that Marot the highwayman was the man that did it, and the chase became hot at his heels. 'Well, and what then? I asked, for Saxon had stopped to light his pipe at the same old metal tinder-box which he had used when first I met him.
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