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I get just half that; that leaves half a million, don't it? Now, shut up a minute!" he commanded truculently as more than one man stirred. "Listen to me. That's five hundred thousand to split between four of you; that's over a hundred thousand for every man jack of you. And that's what I call a fair split."
But first three cheers for Captain Maclean, lads!" The cheers were given with hearty good-will, and then the men tramped off to carry out their new task. Maclean, whose face was still flushed from the compliment that had been paid him, leaned over the machine-gun and surveyed the prisoners. "Can any of you pirate scum speak English?" he demanded truculently.
It'll be dead easy, and I bet it'll make a hit too. You know the stunt lights down spotlight on the stage you in it singing in a low sweet voice 'Loch Lomond." "What!" "Sure thing." "What in Sam Hill has 'Loch Lomond' gotter do with 'Uncle Tom's Cabin!" demanded William truculently. "Them niggers never even heard of it, I'll bet."
Roosevelt asked the strike leaders to meet him in order to talk things over. These leaders did not know the man with whom they were dealing; they tried to bully him. They truculently announced the things that they would do if the police were not compliant to their wishes. But they did not get far in that direction. Roosevelt called a halt with a snap of his jaws.
It was that teapot, with its conspicuous urn design, that finally disillusioned him. I had just returned from putting it back in the chest for the third time when he missed it; and he announced the discovery with a profusion of perfectly unnecessary and highly inappropriate adjectives. "'Naa, then! he exclaimed truculently, 'where's that blimy teapot gone to? Hay?
"What are you doing in these woods?" Brady, recovering from his first surprise, lowered his gun, but answered truculently "Never you mind what I'm doin'." The girl pointed significantly to his distended pockets. "I don't need to ask. Empty out your pockets and take yourself off. Do you hear?" she added sharply, as the man made no movement to obey. "I shan't do nothin' o' the sort," he growled.
"There's a lot more goin' to be said yet," stated Samuels, truculently. "But I'm afraid when it comes right down to the law of it, they'll decide against your claim. The law reads pretty plain on how to go about it; and as I understand it, you never did prove up." "My lawyer says if I hang on here, they never can get me out," said Samuels, "and I'm a-goin' to hang on."
"There's no boat, I say, and there's an end on 't," repeated Master Jones truculently as he stepped on deck, and two men who had been earnestly conversing at the stern of the brig turned round and came toward him. They were John Carver, already governor of the colony, and William Bradford, his lieutenant and successor.
He let them in, and, pale and shivering, ushered them up to the death- chamber, where one or two, with a more delicate sense of smelling than the rest, snuffed the atmosphere, as if sensible of an unknown fragrance, yet appeared afraid to breathe, when they saw the terrific countenance leaning back against the chair, and eying them so truculently.
"It's a well-known fact that there is nothing so uncontrollable as a tiger once it has got the taste of human blood, and Miss Beresford, having found out how nice it is to call you and Vittie and O'Donoghue liars, isn't likely to be persuaded " "What are you going to do?" said Titherington truculently. "I? I'm going back to bed as soon as I can, and when once back I'm going to stay there."
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