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Do you see, Samantha?" sez he, proudly and loftily. "Yes," sez I, as I filled up my tea-pot, for the water had at last biled. "Yes, I see." And I spoze he thought he had convinced me, for he acted high headeder and haughtier for as much as an hour and a half. And I didn't say anything to break it up, for I see he had stated it jest as he and all his sect looked at it, and good land!
Brave as a lion he felt, yet timid as a hare; there was no idea of real resistance in him any longer. "I'm ready, then," he said faintly, and the girl came up softly to his side and sought his face with a frank innocence of gaze that made no attempt to hide her eagerness and joy. She accepted the duty with delight, proudly conscious of its importance.
The black eyes flashed as the girl proudly uttered these words, and she looked defiantly in the painted face towering above her. "But what will he do with Red Wolf?" "He will strike down Red Wolf, because he is a coward, and did not keep all harm from his white friends."
The steamer cast off and came wheeling back; the ship spread her huge white plumage, and went proudly off to sea, the blue waves breaking white under her bows. Crawley sat glaring at all this in a state of mental collapse.
I shall see to it that no harm befalls you, and, while we are fighting, we will try to find a cave or nook in the rocks where we may conceal you." "I do not want to conceal myself, Andreas Hofer," said Eliza, proudly.
Had the innocent girl but known it, the face was that of Lord Wynchgate, one of the most contemptible of the greater nobility of Britain, and the figure was his too. "Ha!" exclaimed the dissolute Aristocrat, "whom have we here? Stay, pretty one, and let me see the fair countenance that I divine behind your veil." "Sir," said Winnifred, drawing herself up proudly, "let me pass, I pray."
Shooting coats that had seen better days, a dozen shabby overcoats-worn proudly through the hottest noons-raggety breeches and trousers made by some London tailor, queer baggy homemades of the same persuasion, or quite simply the square of cotton cloth arranged somewhat like a short tight skirt, or nothing at all as the man's taste ran.
'I have property to ten times the value, twenty times the value, thirty times the value, said Melmotte proudly; 'but you must know I should think by this time that a man engaged in large affairs cannot always realise such a sum as eighty thousand pounds at a day's notice. Mr Bideawhile without using language that was absolutely vituperative gave Mr Melmotte to understand that he thought that he and his client had been robbed, and that he should at once take whatever severest steps the law put in his power.
Wearing the handsome buckskins and carrying proudly the magic arrow in his right hand, he started off eastward. Imitating the swaying strides of the avenger, he walked away with a face turned slightly skyward. "Oh, set me free! I am glued to the tree like its own bark! Cut me loose!" moaned the prisoner.
Then I shall try to manage it for you. But it would not do at all for you to go entirely alone." "If you'll just let me be her escort, Grandma Elsie, I'll walk beside her with pleasure and take the very best care of her," said Max, proudly and assuming quite a manly air. "I'd want a bigger and stronger man than you, Max," remarked Rosie, teasingly.
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