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"Yes, it does," she answered, defiantly. "Dare you go and seek him there? Or dare you only skulk behind the walls of the house?" "As long as we are only four against a hundred I dare only skulk," I answered. She did not annoy me at all by her taunts. "But do you think he's there?" "There! No, he's in the town and he'll come from the town to kill you to-morrow." "There is nobody there?" I pursued.
"Think you her heart and body are framed of steel and iron, to endure the cruel disappointment of yester even, and the infamous taunts of yonder puritanic hag? Would to God that I were a man, to aid her more effectually!" "If those who carry pistols, and batons, and poniards," said the page, "are not men, they are at least Amazons; and that is as formidable."
Let any man pull with might and main for hours and hours together, under a burning sun; and if it do not make him a little peevish, he is no sailor. The taunts of the seamen may have maddened the Mowree; however it was, no sooner was he brought up again, than, harpoon in hand, he bounded upon the whale's back, and for one dizzy second was seen there.
"If the right honourable gentleman has challenged this part of his Majesty's dominions to civil war, we accept the challenge." This temper soon had ugly expression. Taunts were exchanged and one of the Hibernians tried to snatch a flag from the other procession; so a disturbance began in which some of the children were hurt and many frightened.
"I shall manage my business as I think fit," said the attorney. "And when we're all in the poor-house what'll you do then?" said Mrs. Masters, with her handkerchief out at the spur of the moment. Whenever she roused her husband to a state of bellicose ire by her taunts she could always reduce him again by her tears.
"Can I require a greater blessing from the Church than to have for my confessor the executioner who cuts off my head?" The crowd below took great pleasure in this passage of arms. Valentine, in fact, was seized by that desperate merriment which is known as gallows humor. The spirits of those who had preceded him in this dreadful stage swept around him and suggested bitter jibes and taunts.
The jar was over; the mutual understanding was settling and fixing; feelings of union and hope made themselves profoundly felt in the heart; affection and deep esteem and dawning trust had each fastened its bond. What quiet lessons I had about this time! No more taunts on my "intellect," no more menaces of grating public shows!
To retreat in the face of the taunts seemed cowardly to remain was rapidly becoming insufferable. "Tell your friend he'd better keep quiet," he said in futile anger. Silvey interpreted the gesture which accompanied the ultimatum. "Come on and make me quit," he chanted. "Johnny made a monkey of you and I can, to-o-o!"
Oddity took all our taunts very quietly, nibbled his dinner in the warehouse, but spent most of his time in the shed; where, as he snuffed along the ground, and fumbled amongst the chipping and the straw, we used to say that he was searching for little lame Billy, whom he never would see any more. Winter at length passed away.
The moment I appeared, or rather the moment the door closed behind me, I was hailed with a shout of derision. While one cried, 'Way! way for the gentleman who has seen the king! another hailed me uproariously as Governor of Guyenne, and a third requested a commission in my regiment. I heard these taunts with a heart full almost to bursting.
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