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"The boy is right," said another in a deep voice. "Men, we are acting like cowards and brutes." "So say I!" a third man broke in, and he ranged himself beside the other two. "This is all folly!" exclaimed the leader angrily. "You men are milksops and chicken-hearted." Walter's face flamed. "Will you allow this?" he exclaimed, as the leader seized him by the collar and drew him to a tree.
Now I have seen big fellows come here, who cried if they were hit, were always eating cakes and sweet things, and sung out when they went to bed for the maid-servant to put on their night-caps; these sort of fellows are seldom worth much, either in school or out of it. They fudge their lessons and shirk their work at play; regular do-nothing Molly Milksops, I call them."
"Now then, Sancho!" said the duchess, "show courage, and gratitude for your master Don Quixote's bread that you have eaten; we are all bound to oblige and please him for his benevolent disposition and lofty chivalry. Consent to this whipping, my son; to the devil with the devil, and leave fear to milksops, for 'a stout heart breaks bad luck, as you very well know."
All he's fit for is to dance with the girls. It's well our army doesn't depend on such milksops as him. He would run away from a mosquito and cry about it afterwards!" "You haven't seen any one suspicious about here, have you, parson?" asked a farmer. The minister hesitated. He had never told a deliberate falsehood in his life. Was he to begin now?
"Don't you wish you had the money instead?" "Yes; I should rather like the money, but I shouldn't be half the man I am if I hadn't smoked. It's mostly milksops that don't smoke. Nothing personal, you know, Mason." "Of course not," said Herbert, smiling. "Better have a cigar." "No; I guess not." "You'll come to it in time. I'll smoke it for you, then."
"Never mind these lads laughing, nevoy," he continued; "they would have been all as great milksops as yourself, had I not nursed them, as one may say, on the toast and tankard."
At a certain green age young gentlemen are sometimes afraid of being called milksops, and Philip's associates had not always been the most select, such as these historians would have chosen for him, or whom at a later, period he would have chosen for himself. It seemed inexplicable, for instance, that his life should have been thrown so much with his college acquaintance, Henry Brierly.
At that moment Goujet and Lorilleux were seen going by. Mes-Bottes shouted to them to come in, but they both refused Goujet saying he wanted nothing, and the other, as he hugged a little box of gold chains close to his heart, that he was in a hurry. "Milksops!" muttered Mes-Bottes. "They had best pass their lives in the corner by the fire!"
As he drank it he told me that he had met men who had spoken against wine, and that they had mentioned Heaven; and therefore he would not go there no, not he; and that once he had sent one of them to Hell, but when he got there he would turn him out, and he had no use for milksops.
But we observed this straw was collected and carted away very carefully, although at the time we paid little attention to the incident. Naturally we concluded that we were to be given a supply of new straw, and not before it was wanted. But we were not to be treated as milksops.
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