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She paused again. "Yes, go on," he urged. "We were together almost every evening." "Billy?" he demanded, with a savageness that startled her. "Yes, of course, Billy. We were with each other so much... If I had only known... There was no one to tell me... I was so young " Her lips parted as though to speak further, and she regarded him anxiously. "The scoundrel!"
But her heart bled for the people she had served, and whom she saw bowed down under the burden of a terrible, haunting fear. If she failed to make due allowance for that savageness of nature which generations of slavery are sure to beget in the master, let us not blame her. She was only a woman, and saw only what was before her.
Neither of these customs presupposes any original and innate savageness or barbarity on the part of the Koraks themselves.
The women went into the wickiup and covered their heads with their blankets. So much has the Indian lost of savageness by merely desisting from killing, that the executioners braved themselves to their work by drinking and a show of quarrelsomeness. In the end a sharp hatchet-stroke discharged the duty of the campoodie.
The Inspector's tone abruptly took on a somber coloring, with an underlying menace. "English Eddie was killed with this gun last night," he said. "Now, who did it?" His broad face was sinister. "Come on, now! Who did it?" Aggie became flippant, seemingly unimpressed by the Inspector's savageness. "How should I know?" she drawled. "What do you think I am a fortune-teller?"
She wished she had not; his anguish expressed itself like an evil passion; his teeth were set with a cruel savageness. It was worse when he caught her look and tried to smile. 'Then I suppose that's that's the end, he said, as if he would make an effort to joke upon it, though his voice all but failed in speaking the few words. He walked a little apart, then approached her again.
They fought swiftly and with a despairing savageness denoted in their expressions. The youth had resolved not to budge whatever should happen. Some arrows of scorn that had buried themselves in his heart had generated strange and unspeakable hatred. It was clear to him that his final and absolute revenge was to be achieved by his dead body lying, torn and gluttering, upon the field.
Blanco is a man who, in any sphere of life, would have become most certainly distinguished; and, under the influence of education, he might have risen even to greatness. In his present unreclaimed state, he shows to a disadvantage. It is within my province fully to attest to the earnestness, the savageness and the brutality with which these Indians commenced this contest.
Already it is a great feat to be on speaking terms with a dozen people, and if we could only instill some of the savageness we all feel towards one another into our defence, it would become so vigorous and unconquerable that not all the legions of the Boxer Empire, massed in serried ranks, could break in on us.
The Chinese still seem to adhere to the belief that the deadliness of a weapon must be in proportion to the savageness of its aspect. Inside, there are spacious courts and well-furnished guest rooms, roomy apartments, and offices for the mandarin, as well as comfortable quarters for Mr. Jensen and his body of Chinese clerks and operators.
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