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His faith in his own luck was as profound as his faith in the girl at his side. And the tumult in his veins that night was such as to make him insensible of danger. The roar of the rising tide exhilarated him. He walked with the stride of a conqueror, free and unafraid, his face to the sea.

She had been alone for weeks with the conventional gloom that made an obsession of the shadow of death which enveloped the house. All voices and footsteps had been subdued to harmonize with the grief of the mistress of this mausoleum. Now she heard the sharp tread of this man unafraid, and saw the alert vitality of his confident bearing. It was like a breath of the hills to a parched traveler.

The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child. Just thirty days after my advent upon Barsoom we entered the ancient city of Thark, from whose long-forgotten people this horde of green men have stolen even their name.

Wilt thou be Ahasuerus and hold to me thy golden scepter?" "What is the request of thy heart, my sister?" "My heart is burdened with a desire to meet this unafraid yet tender and wise man thou dost talk of. I would see Jesus." "It shall be even so. To our home shall he be bidden.

There must have been something terrible in my voice for it was the voice of a strong man going down to death, firm of purpose, and unafraid. The feel of the weapon gave the Indian renewed energy. He sprang at me with a maniac's might. He was a maniac henceforth. Three times we raged across the narrow fighting ground.

And I journeyed south to meet the men by Yeddo Bay, who are wild and unafraid. And the Yoshiwara girls were small, and bright like steel, and good to look upon; but I could not stop, for I knew that Unga rolled on the tossing floor by the rookeries of the north. 'The men by Yeddo Bay had met from the ends of the earth, and had neither gods nor homes, sailing under the flag of the Japanese.

What a sweet creature she was, open-hearted and unafraid! His heart met her half way. "What is the matter with you, Brother Lawrence?" she asked. "There is nothing the matter with me." "Then what have I done?" She seated herself, and Chester laid his book on the table. He would be plain and open with this girl. In the end nothing is gained by mystery and silence.

So she must sacrifice herself to get clean again. She must make even greater sacrifices than any she cowed away from. She must do this without any of the compensations that come to those who have been honest and unafraid." "What of him?" "He must never know. He'll go round and round his little circle, and she must watch him." "It's terrible," he murmured.

Count up to five hundred, and if it is limp, pull it in again. If it holds, make it fast! Got me?" He turned at once to a flight of iron steps that led off the wall down into the awful, seething water. But someone, Fisher, sprang suddenly after him and held him back. Charlie wheeled instantly. The light of a lantern striking on his face revealed it, unafraid, even laughing.

He forgot himself, and looked up at his mistress, a wonderful, slim little thing standing there at last unafraid before the future and in his dog heart and soul a part of the truth came to him, and he planted his big feet squarely in front of Jed Hawkins, and snarled at him as he had never snarled before in his life.