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She was alarmed at the steady scrutiny the young man had given her, though it was chiefly as to some strange specimen. "Thou art overbold, Jeanne, smiling up in a young man's face and puckering thy brows like some maid coquetting for a lover." "A young man!" Jeanne laughed heartily. "Why he had a snowy beard like a white bear in winter. Where were your eyes, Pani?
"The same," said the Roman, gayly. Then he gave her his hand, with the assurance that the thought of her would make it a pleasure to remember Alexandria. As she clasped his hand, Andreas came up, bowed gravely, and asked whether it would be overbold in him, as a faithful retainer of the maiden's family, to crave a favor, in her name, of Caesar's illustrious and familiar friend.
And as the seconds heaped suspense upon suspense, the overbold Caliban was seized with a choking fear that he was to pay the price. Then Dolores spoke, slowly, quietly, almost soothingly; and those of her hardened ruffians who thought they knew her best hung on her words in shivery uncertainty. "For those bold words, Caliban, my father had stripped thy poisonous skin from thy putrid flesh.
Tigers, he knew, were shy beasts, but one who had been long cattle-fed in this sumptuous style might prove overbold. "He speaks!" some one whispered from the rear. "He knows, too." "Well, of all the infernal cheek!" said Chinn. There was an angry growl from the cave a direct challenge. "Come out, then," Chinn shouted. "Come out of that.
But as they pressed closer, Terry, Ashe, and Maloney turned and presented their shot-guns. This was probably intended only as a threat, but Hopkins, who was always overbold, lunged at Maloney. Terry thrust his gun at a Vigilante who seized it by the barrel. At the same instant Ashe pressed the muzzle of his weapon against the breast of a man named Bovee, but hesitated to pull the trigger.
"Speak from your heart, sir, as you did to me yesterday. Be bold, yet not overbold. Tell her plainly that he is your friend; and that it was through your action he was betrayed. Say that you love the man. She likes loyalty. Say he is a fine upstanding fellow, over six feet in height, with a good leg. She likes a good leg. Say that he has not a wife, and will never have one.
"Shore it's been too peaceful heah. Rustlers have no practice at fightin'. An' I reckon Daggs forgot." "Daggs made as crazy a move as that of Guy an' Jacobs," spoke up Jean. "They were overbold, an' he was drunk. Let them be a lesson to us." Jean had smelled whisky upon his entrance to this cabin. Bill was a hard drinker, and his father was not immune. Blaisdell, too, drank heavily upon occasions.
"Thou art not a stranger, but Sergius, my brother. Father Hilarion has explained everything." He kissed her hand, and replied: "I was overbold, Princess; but I knew the Father would report me kindly; and I was hungry." "It is my part now to see the affliction comes not back again. So much has the Shepherd already determined. But, speaking as thy sister, Sergius, thy garments appear strange.
He was bashful, and he got on better with men than he did with women; but if you will stop to think, most decent men do if they have lived under their hats since they grew to the long-trouser age. And if they have spent their working days astride a stock saddle, you may be sure they are bashful unless they are overbold and impossible. Well, Starr was of the bashful, easily stampeded type.
There was something about her grace and innocence that touched the dissolute monarch, who was by no means without a heart. For a time he treated her with great respect, and she was happy. At last she began to notice about her strange faces faces that were evil, wanton, or overbold. The court became more and more a seat of reckless revelry.
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