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"Would you let a churlish old brute of a farmer strike you without making him suffer for it?" "I fancy I should return the compliment, my lad," replied his uncle. "Of course you would! So would I. And he shall suffer for it." The boy looked savage, and his uncle patted him down. "I've boxed his son; I'll box him," said Richard, shouting for more wine. "What, boy!
"Mon Lieutenant, ... mon Lieutenant, your horse is wounded." I had dismounted in a moment, and tears came to my eyes. I had forgotten the anger and impatience that "Tourne-Toujours'" savage temper had so often caused me. What had they done to my brave and noble companion-in-arms?
In any case, they would look for a house in which to settle on their return to London. "Good for Milton Savage," laughed Knight. "Now we'll lie low, and see what will happen." Annesley thought that nothing would happen; but she was wrong. The next morning a note came by hand for Mrs. Nelson Smith, brought by a footman on a bicycle. The note was from Lady Annesley-Seton.
"And why," he began, savage with the desire to find something visible he could fight "why, in the name of all the blazes ?" and then stopped as John Silence moved up and took his arm. "There, my dear Colonel Wragge," he said gently, "you touch the heart of the whole thing. You ask 'Why. That is precisely our problem." He held the soldier's eyes firmly with his own.
No other conquering and colonizing nation has ever treated the original savage owners of the soil with such generosity as has the United States. Nor is the charge that the treaties with the Indians have been broken, of weight in itself; it depends always on the individual case.
Then they wheeled about, darted with fury at each other, and tore with their savage talons at each other's heads and necks. Flapping their great wings, they then went swiftly away and were lost in the far distance. Said a wise old man: "It is an omen. Odysseus will return, and woe will come upon the wooers. Let us make an end of these evil doings and keep harm away from us."
I had Fabian, and he wouldn't stay. If I'd had a real chance " He broke off, with an outward savage protest of his hands, his voice falling. "If you'd had your chance, you'd have made your own home happy," she said sadly. "That was your first duty, not your business your home your home! You didn't care about it. There were times when for months you forgot me; and then then "
Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog. With long bounds the huge black creature was leaping down the track, following hard upon the footsteps of our friend.
He shoved an account at her in a most savage manner, Thad thought, and the boy felt as if he could have kicked the grim dairyman with rare good pleasure to settle the account. As for Hugh, if he had chanced to have the money with him just then he would only too gladly have loaned or given it to Matilda, so that she might get rid of the abusive farmer, whose very tone was harsh and rasping.
A man was crouching at every loophole in the room, with the barrel of his piece projecting through it, and even as I entered one of the pieces spoke, ineffectively. The man who fired was Don Pedro, and he turned from the loophole with a savage execration at his failure.
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