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"Thank you all the same, master," said I, looking him as boldly as I could in the face; "but I'd rather stay aboard till I can get put decently on shore, and not have to swim there, as you would have me do." "Swim! By God, you wouldn't swim long, I expect," said the ruffian. "Faith, I've no fancy for trying, either," I answered.
She had befriended, uplifted the other cowboys; she had saved Stewart's life. To be sure, he had been a ruffian, but a woman could not save the life of even a ruffian without remembering it with gladness. Madeline at length decided her interest in Stewart was natural, and that her deeper feeling was pity.
Curly Tom possessed more strength than his lank figure promised, but Hunter, thoroughly sobered by his danger; tore his hold away, and striking the ruffian a tremendous blow with the butt end of the discharged pistol, felled him to the ground, and snatching a knife from the rock close at hand, stabbed the foremost officer to the heart, he fell with a heavy groan, and the next moment the remaining officer, a man of herculean strength had closed upon him.
The black ruffian, in order to convince his prisoner that he meant what he said, pressed the sharp point of his knife so closely to the Corporal's breast, that it penetrated the skin. Mr. "Wash Goode," cried Mr. Peter York, addressing that gentleman with a familiar abbreviation of his patriotic Christian name "look yeah, a moment, will you nigger?" Mr.
They stared in helpless anger at the small shop, which had suddenly become the most important in their ken. Already they saw their families brought to the gutter by this hunchback ruffian, who hit them below the belt in the most ungentlemanly fashion in preference to starving.
Ben had never suspected any such conspiracy as this, and, had he gone a little further, he would have walked directly into the arms of the second ruffian, while peering behind him at the shadowy villain who "still pursued him." But the lad had stopped short and disconcerted the plans of the conspirators by so doing.
Darvil did not reply, and the officers, accustomed to hold life cheap, moved on towards him their pistols cocked and levelled. Darvil fired one of the men staggered and fell. With a kind of instinct Darvil had singled out the one with whom he had before wrestled for life. The ruffian waited not for the others he turned and fled along the fields.
I always thought myself that she was of gentle blood, from the account my husband gave me of the lady who placed her in his arms, and I am thankful therefore that she should not have been thrown away on any one beneath the rank of a gentleman, still more on any of these ruffian buccaneers, who, in spite of all their boasting, would very soon have broken her heart.
Shots were cracking on all sides, two riderless horses, confused in the MELEE, were galloping about neighing, and a third lay squealing on the ground in the agonies of death. Sam saw a man fire at his father, whose horse went down, while the Major arose unhurt. He rode at the ruffian, who was dismounted, and cut him so deep between the shoulder and the neck, that he fell and never spoke again.
I purport to be a woman, but I have never been suffered to see a genuine man. And now here is one or what I think to be one and I'm given to understand that he is a pirate and a murderer and an unspeakable ruffian generally but he takes my fancy, and he has beckoned to me to come to him, and so you will kindly get me my hat and jacket and gloves. That's what she would have said to you, my dear."
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