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A committee which had waited upon him the day before had reported him as in favour of moderate rather than harsh measures in the church affair, while maintaining his plighted word to the seceders. Barneveld stoutly opposed the motion. "What need had the sovereign states of Holland of advice from a stadholder, from their servant, their functionary?" he cried.
There might be a stray trading schooner running across from Tutuwanga. But I happen to know that island is visited only once a year. A chance in a million is ours." "And we'll play that chance," she rejoined stoutly. "You ARE a joy!" His hand lifted hers to his lips. "And Aunt Elizabeth always wondered what I saw in you. Of course we'll play that chance. And we'll win it, too.
"Yes," said Burr major; "he'll have to take a turn at the bowling." "I shan't play if Frank Burr don't," said Mercer stoutly. "What?" cried the two boys together. "You must put some one else on instead of me; I've got a headache too." "Oh, I say," cried Hodson, and he and Burr both tried hard to shake Mercer's sudden resolution.
The dear boy had maintained stoutly that he did love Ursula and Jacquey, and that Hester wasn't half so nice, and that he had rather they bullied him than that she coaxed him! But there was the poison sown to rankle and grow and burst out when he was opposed.
"Looks as if we used it regular every afternoon, doesn't it? Do you think it will be all right not to ask him in, Betty?" "Of course," said Betty stoutly. "Don't dare ask him in! If he wants a drink of water, call me, and I'll get it for him. You must be sitting in your chair reading a magazine when he comes and he'll think you always spend your afternoons like that."
There was no such unearthly light shining within the mound as I had heard of in many tales of those who sought to speak with dead chiefs. "Well, I am going in," I said stoutly; "but do you hide here, and make some noise that I may know you are near me. It is the silence that frays me. "What can I do?" he said. "I know no runes that are of avail.
"O no of course I don't; I can only guess," replied her companion with a light laugh. "Perhaps it is because he knows his services as a farm servant can't be worth much at first." "There you are wrong," returned Elise, stoutly.
Major St. John has been right from the start. We must encounter brave, determined men; and, whatever may be true of the leaders, the people are as sincere in their patriotism as we are. They don't even dream that they are fighting in a bad cause. The majority will stand up for it as stoutly and conscientiously as your husband for ours. Have I not done justice to your kin, Grace?"
If he did not urge on the loiterers the gate, which was closed at nightfall, would need to be opened for them, for the five troopers who acted as escort had deemed their duty done when Winzer was reached, and made themselves comfortable in the excellent tavern there. The carters had used the lash stoutly, yet it had been no easy matter to advance rapidly.
Stoutly as the eight thousand British had fought deserted though they were by their allies against Ney's overpowering numbers, they could not much longer have stood their ground, when at the critical moment General Alten's division came up by the Nivelles road to their aid.
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