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But like all men of character, his face became stern under provocation, and he spoke more deliberately. "Before we go any farther," he said, "would you mind telling me who your informant is on this point?" "I guess I don't need an informant. My eyesight is as good as ever," said the Honourable Hilary. "Your deductions are usually more accurate.
And if she be dead, I think the judge would not hang me, if I showed him what I have lost. I'd rather have parted with an arm or a leg any day of the week. There's been provocation enough, at all events; if she be dead a saint in heaven couldn't stand it." During these remarks my mother gave no signs of returning animation, and at last my father became seriously alarmed.
At the street corners you constantly see exhortations against profane swearing, headed "Bestemmiatore orrendo nome," but in spite of this, the amount of blasphemies that any common Roman will pour forth on the slightest provocation, is really appalling. Beggars too are universal.
The burning of the grass, however, revealed the fact that the soil was everywhere honeycombed with holes, into which the creatures had doubtless retreated, ready to sally forth again upon the smallest provocation; therefore, in order to protect themselves from further attack, they cut an immense quantity of grass, strewed it over the central portion of the already burnt area, and burned it over again; after which, the ashes being first swept away with branches, they ventured to go into camp, the Indians slinking back by twos and threes as soon as they perceived that the risk of renewed hostilities was over.
A Norman would with half the provocation." "You could not fight with him," said Louis de Marmontier, who was the youngest of the pages who were learning "chivalry" at the castle of Aescendune, in company with Etienne and Wilfred, under the fostering care of the baron.
In such cases he nipped manes and kicked under the traces until released. He had a special antipathy for gray horses and fought them on the smallest provocation, or upon none at all. As a result Blue Blazes, while knowing no masters, had many owners, sometimes three in a single week.
Freedom, his journal, is distinguished from the rest of the Anarchist press which is mostly merely doctrinaire by its constant provocation to a war of classes, to murder and incendiarism. "Extirpate the miserable brood!" says Freedom, speaking of owners of property "extirpate the wretches!
"He may be looking down on you from heaven," added Victoria, folding her handkerchief so as to get a dry part uppermost. I could not resist this provocation: I smiled. "If it is so, Victoria," I remarked, "nobody will be more surprised than the Prince himself." Victoria was very much offended. She conceived herself to have added an effective touch: I ridiculed her.
It was a significant hint, too, of the projects already formed by the worthless prince whose adherents these ruffians proclaimed themselves. The Duc d'Orléans conceived himself to have lately received a fresh provocation, and an additional motive for revenge.
The verve with which this girl-woman thus vaunted her skill in the use of those charms that dominate the opposite sex thrilled and fascinated the lover, pierced the reserve that possession had overcast on ardor. His cheeks flushed, under the provocation of the glances with which she marked the allurements of which she was the mistress.
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