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"Oh! that is all the same to me; and king though he be, I would plainly tell him, 'Sire, imprison, exile, kill every one in France and Europe; order me to arrest and poniard even whom you like even were it Monsieur, your own brother; but do not touch one of the four musketeers, or if so, mordioux!"

It suddenly occurred to the soldier that to kill this savage princess with one blow he must poniard her in the throat. He raised the blade, when the panther, satisfied no doubt, laid herself gracefully at his feet, and cast up at him glances in which, in spite of their natural fierceness, was mingled confusedly a kind of good will.

Her face was ghastly and distorted, her breast heaving, her every nerve quivering, and her eyes were like balls of fire under their knitted brows. Still clutching the poniard, her jeweled fingers worked convulsively around its haft, like those of one who fain would strike a death blow, yet whose hand was briefly held by consuming horror. Suddenly she darted nearer, with a vicious snarl.

I'll match him for the ale! be quickly in and answer to thy part; and, marry, boy, don't miss thy cues, or tsst, thy head's not worth a peascod!" With that he clapped his hand upon his poniard and glared into Nick's eyes, as if to look clear through to the back of the boy's wits. Nick heard his white teeth grind, and was all at once very much afraid of him, for he did indeed look dreadful.

Had Djalma sprung upon the half-caste with bloodshot eye, menacing brow, and lifted poniard, the latter would have been less surprised, and perhaps less frightened, than when he heard the prince speak of his treachery in this tone of mild reproach. He drew back hastily, as if about to stand on his guard. But Djalma resumed, with the same gentleness, "Fear nothing.

Thou hast saved my child good! Life for life. I sign myself thy blood-ally there." With these words he drew his poniard out of his girdle. He scratched his arm, and let a few drops of his blood run down on a stone at the feet of Nebsecht "Look," he said. "There is my bond, Kaschta has signed himself thine, and thou canst dispose of my life as of thine own. What I have said, I have said."

Through the whole of this long letter of Roland, it is curious to remark how the nerve and vigor of his style, which had spoken so potently to his sovereign, is relaxed when he addresses himself to the sans-culottes, how that strength and dexterity of arm, with which he parries and beats down the sceptre, is enfeebled and lost when he comes to fence with the poniard.

Aye! this morning, after I spoke with you. I comprehend; and you shewed him the poniard. So! so! so! Well, give it to me; I will tell you what to do, hereafter." "I have it not with me, Sergius," he replied, thoroughly daunted and dismayed. "See that you meet me then, bringing it with you, at Egeria’s cave, as fools call it, in the valley of Muses, at the fourth hour of night to-morrow.

Carew started as if all his nerves had leaped within him at the unexpected sound, and closed the panel like a flash. Then, setting his foot upon the fallen coin, he stopped its spinning, and with one hand on his poniard, peering right and left, blew the candle out. A little while he stood and listened in the dark; a little while his feet went to and fro in the darkness.

"'Bulgarian thou art a villain! "The duke gnashed his teeth. For a moment his hand clutched at the hilt of his poniard, but he suddenly withdrew it. "'I had thought to have dealt otherwise with thee, he said, 'but thou hast dared to come between the lion and his bride. Englishman hast thou courage to make good thy injurious words with aught else but the tongue?