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At that time he was an obscure man, known only for a witty speaker at street corners and in Park demonstrations. He had, with an assumed truculence and fury, cold logic, an universal gentleness, an unruffled courtesy, and yet could never close a speech without being denounced by a journeyman hatter with an Italian name.
Nicholas Trenchard's appearance as Pistol in "Henry IV" in the year of the blessed Restoration was the talk alike of town and court. Mr. Trenchard steadied himself from the impact, and, swearing a round and awful Elizabethan oath, accused the other of being drunk, then struck an attitude to demand with truculence, "Would ye take the wall o' me, sir?"
I came to see if I could lend you a hand." "You know I don't mean that. What are you after, here in the mountains?" His voice was surly with truculence. King grew angry and burst out bluntly: "The devil take you, Andy Parker. I wanted to help you. If you don't take my interference kindly, I'll be on my way." He turned to be off. Why the man was not already dead from that fall he did not know.
"It affected me because the sudden mention of his name recalled my own disgrace. I quitted the army six months ago, Miss Deane, under very painful circumstances. A general court-martial found me guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. I was not even given a chance to resign. I was cashiered." He pretended to speak with cool truculence.
But a few weeks ago he could not thus have faced the great enemy of the farmers without a gust of blind rage blowing tempestuous through all his bones. Now, however, he found to his surprise that his fury had lapsed to a profound contempt, in which there was bitterness, but no truculence. He was tired, tired to death of the whole business. "Yes," he answered deliberately, "I am going away.
Addison, I think you said your name was? her eyes lighted up in the dark like a cat's!" He stared at me with some return of his old truculence as if anticipating ridicule and prepared to resent it, but I nodded sternly, watching him as if enthralled by his narrative, whereupon: "Yes like a cat's!" he repeated; "and I'll admit I got in a panic.
The savage truculence of the murderer had triumphed, but not until he had battered in the face, destroying features and rendering recognition almost impossible. A knife had given the mortal wound; that was at once apparent from the shape of the wound.
Her big eyes went to Lawler, who grinned faintly at her. "I reckon Jimmy's coming with his 'paw," he said. A big man, massive, muscular, with heavy shoulders that seemed to droop with the weight of his great, long arms, stepped into the room. The man's head was big, like the rest of him, and covered with shaggy, tawny hair which seemed to bristle with truculence.
The Gunner dropped his voice to a whisper, rolling up his eyes. "Say, Sonny, are you afraid?" "No. I can't take anything in." "Nor'm I; and ain't got no cause neether," came the voice from the darkness, defiant almost to truculence. "I only ad but the two talents lovin and fightin; and they can't say I've id eether o them up in a napkin. They can't chuck that in me face."
The use of the expletive "dangerously," as suggestive of the truculence of the people to whom it refers, is critically allowable in view of the main intention of the author. But what shall we say of the suggestion contained in the very next sentence, which we have italicized?
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