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Now, I’ve got you alone!” gloated Truax. “I’ll finish you!” A scornful smile curled Jack’s lips as he gazed steadily back at his foe. “Truax, you’re a coward, as well as a sneak.” “I ameh?” With another nasty oath Truax stepped quickly forward, the steel bar upraised. He took but one step, however, for Captain Jack Benson had not retreated an inch.

The date is not quite certain. Probably it happened in 86. It was a curious way of showing the respect which they entertained for each other's ability; but Sulla was too scornful of Asiatic aid, and Archelaus too loyal to listen to such suggestions.

Once more her face altered to the former scornful indifference, and she vanished. Keen of hearing as I was, I had never yet heard the footstep of Lady Alice. The Somnambulist. One night I was sitting in my room, devouring an old romance which I had brought from the library. It was late.

By the single word "Peace!" the interpreter could often check parties of warriors, but others answered the offer of peace with a scornful laugh, and their showers of arrows and assegais had to be met with a volley of rifle bullets. The New Year had already come, when a friendly tribe warned the travellers of dangerous falls and rapids, the roar of which they would shortly hear.

"I do not know if you have dreamed of this one," says Curzon, perplexed by her manner. Some hope had been in his heart in his journey to her, but now it dies. There is little love truly in her small, vivid face, her gleaming eyes, her parted, scornful lips. "I am not given to dreams," says she, with a petulant shrug. "I know what I mean always.

Were it not for that nightly pest of her lectures, I could be good-natured enough to take care of her destiny myself, and teach her the difference betwixt a real emperor and this Briennius, who thinks so much of himself." So saying, they separated; the Follower elated in look and manner considerably above what he had been when they met. Agelastes looked after his companion with a scornful laugh.

He sat drinking his toddy all the time Alec spoke, and in the middle of his speech he mixed himself another tumbler. When Alec sat down, he rose, glanced round the assembly, bent his lip into its most scornful curves, and, in a clear, unwavering voice, said: "Mr Chairman and gentlemen, I repel the accusation." Alec started to his feet in wrath.

Othello was still spying when Bianca entered, boiling over with the idea that Cassio, whom she considered her property, had asked her to copy the embroidery on the handkerchief of a new sweetheart. She tossed him the handkerchief with scornful words, and Cassio departed with her.

"I only wish he'd marry her and and give her a good time all her life," avowed Mellicent, lifting her chin. "Marry her!" exclaimed two scornful voices. "Well, why not? She's good enough for him," bridled Mellicent. "Aunt Maggie's good enough for anybody!" "Of course she is, child!" laughed Miss Flora. "Maggie's a saint if ever there was one."

And with pride, a more reckless physical daring than usual; a kind of scornful adventurousness, that courted danger for its own sake, and wordlessly taunted the weaker spirit with "Follow if you like and can. If you don't like, if you can't, I am the better woman in that way, though you may be the beloved."