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Claire's lips were parted, to repeat her strange order, as she came up the porch steps, but Gavin, following her, called reassuringly: "Don't worry, Miss Standish. They don't use guns. They're knifers. The conchs have a holy horror of firearms. Besides, a shot might bring the road patrol. He's perfectly safe."
For eyes we be, of Empire, we, Skinned and puckered and quick to see, And nobody guesses how wise we be, Nor hidden in what disguise we be, A-cooking a sudden surprise we be For hairy Himahlyan knifers! After a time King urged his horse to a jog-trot, and the five Hillmen pattered in his wake, huddled so close together that the horse could easily have kicked more than one of them.
"Which one do you mean the 'Red Girdles'?" "No; the 'Occoltellatori." "The 'Knifers'! But that is a little body of outlaws peasants, most of them, with neither education nor political experience." "So were the insurgents of Savigno; but they had a few educated men as leaders, and this little society may have the same.
King called to them, thinking they were grumbling. "Forward, men of the 'Hills'!" The owl he has eyes that are big for his size, And the night like a book he deciphers; "Too-woop!" he asserts, and "Hoo-woo-ip!" he cries, And he means to remark he is awfully wise; But he lags behind us, who are "on" to the lies Of the hairy Himalayan knifers!
'Up in London. Among the Jacks. 'The sailors? 'I said so; Jacks; and Chayner men: and hother Knifers. 'I should like to know, through you, exactly where she lives. 'All right. Give us 'old. A shilling passes; and, in that spirit of confidence which should pervade all business transactions between principals of honour, this piece of business is considered done.
However, it is not the 'Knifers' that I belong to, but the 'Red Girdles. They are a steadier lot, and take their work more seriously." "Do you mean the work of knifing?" "That, among other things. Knives are very useful in their way; but only when you have a good, organized propaganda behind them. That is what I dislike in the other sect.
"I hope you must not take offence at my frankness; it was you who started this talk, you know I do hope it is not the 'Knifers." "Why do you hope that?" "Because you are fit for better things." "We are all fit for better things than we ever do. There is your own answer back again.
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