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The boy hesitated for a moment as to whether he should stop or run, and as he did so Gerald and Jack came out upon the scene. "Did we scare you?" asked Gerald. "No," replied Pepper stoutly, "I thought it was a joke." "We just wanted to test your courage," said Jack. "That reminds me " began Dick, who had now joined the others. "That it is time for me to be getting along," broke in Pepper.
The Fortieth and Fifty-fifth fought stoutly, but were unable to make their way through the American force, and fell back to Brunswick, while the Americans occupied Princeton. At daybreak Lord Cornwallis discovered the retreat of the American army, and being apprehensive for the safety of Brunswick, where great stores of the army were accumulated, marched with all haste toward that town.
If his own companions didn't carry him away he was left in a bad fix." "You'll be going back to nurse rattlesnakes yet!" almost exploded the cook. "That's all right, but we're going to find that wounded man if he's in need of help," Tom stoutly maintained. He called Jim Ferrers, who roused five more men. Then the party returned to the place on the trail where Eb had been left.
"She is too nice a girl for that. You have misconstrued Hilliard's politeness." Finding his worldly wisdom at issue, Clyde defended himself stoutly. "I tell you, he has gone off his blooming balance; I know the symptoms; leave it to old Doctor Clyde." "You say other people have noticed it?" "I do! Everybody in town except you and the news-dealer at the corner he's blind."
"I take it easy in my old days," he stoutly maintained, but with such inward distress that, without a protest, he allowed the waiter to remove his half-emptied glass of beer. "I'm glad you can take it easy," declared Constance, "but Ersten's customers will miss you very much and I am sure Ersten will, too." "We worked together thirty-seven years," said Schnitt wistfully.
The offended pair sullenly retired, but the Christmas sun shone none the less brightly from the clear sky, the party of travellers had a gay, spick and span, holiday aspect, and the world into which they now fared stoutly forth, was so wide and beautiful, that Ulrich forgot his grief, and joyously waved his new cap in answer to the Lansquenet's farewell gesture.
Finally, to secure the desideratum, I proposed that Lindsay and self both withdraw, and have the offices filled with others. I desired my friend should understand that I asked for no sacrifice I was not willing to share. My withdrawal was stoutly opposed as entirely unnecessary, but it was my ultimatum; on no other condition would I move in the matter.
The Marquis Berghen, the younger Mansfeld, the Baron Montigny, openly refused to enforce the edicts within their governments. Men of eminence inveighed boldly and bitterly against the tyranny of the government, and counselled disobedience. The Netherlanders, it was stoutly maintained, were not such senseless brutes as to be ignorant of the mutual relation of prince and people.
It seemed so unnatural. What powers of sudden onslaught might not lie hidden within that calm exterior? what dynamitic capacities of swift explosion might not underlie that fearless expression? "Ippegoo," he said, stifling his anger with a painful effort, "are you going to turn against your best friend?" "My mother is my best friend," answered the youth stoutly. "You are right; I made a mistake."
But Margaret, watching her music as best she could, and playing mechanically rather than with her mind, could not tell if they were doing well or ill, so loudly did her heart pound out her fears so stoutly did her heart proclaim her trust.
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