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Then Euryalos scoffed at him, saying: "Thou art right, stranger, for thy countenance shows thou art anything but an athlete. "Methinks thou art the owner of some merchant-vessel. Thou art a trader, whose head is full of bargains. Such men can take heed of nothing except how to increase wealth."
Wilson must have left the White House for that ill-omened journey with a sinking heart, for she knew, none better, that her husband was suffering from accumulated fatigue, and that he should be starting on a long vacation instead of a fighting tour that would tax the strength of an athlete in the pink of condition.
Hazard, when he had finished with seven years of football, knowing the dire death that awaits the big-muscled athlete who ceases training abruptly, had been compelled to keep it up. Not only was it a necessity, but he had grown to like it. Billy also liked it, for he took great delight in the silk of his body.
“By the dog of Egypt, do you doubt my word?” “Friends,” called Democrates, dramatically, “mark you that Glaucon admits he has employed this Seuthes as his courier.” “Whither leads this mummery?” cried the athlete, growing at last angry. “If to nothing, I, Democrates, rejoice the most. Now I must bid you to follow me.”
He had the firm fibre of a theological athlete, and lived to be old without ever mellowing, I think, into a kind of half-heterodoxy, as old ministers of stern creed are said to do now and then, just as old doctors grow to be sparing of the more exasperating drugs in their later days.
It was a bad drop but not an impossible one. An athlete might manage it, he supposed, but he was not an athlete he was a gentleman and a soldier. It would be a nasty thing to try it and to break a leg. He had never tried breaking a leg but he remembered having heard the family physician say that a broken leg meant a six weeks' vacation and he had no mind for a vacation on those terms.
Warlike as she seemed, she was more than welcome, for she was a woman and could talk. She talked Cree, of course, but it sounded good to Cromwell. Side by side the handsome young athlete and the Cree woman sat and exchanged stories. Half an hour later the Englishman came up and asked what the prospect promised. "Ah," said Cromwell, sadly, "this is another story.
Before the evening was over he demonstrated the fact that he was a first-class oarsman, much to the satisfaction of his friend. "You must have had a good deal of practice at the gymnasium," said Valentine. "Yes; the director of the gymnasium, who is an all-around athlete, gave the boys special instruction, by which we all profited.
In the meantime, as Nick staggered up, and the major saw him gaining his equilibrium, he succeeded in drawing a revolver, but as he raised it to about the level of Hanson's breast that athlete kicked the hand that held it, and the gun flew upward, struck the ceiling, was discharged, and fell harmlessly to the floor, while the dislocated hand of the major dropped helplessly to his side.
“What makes you think he’s a relation?” he asked, with an assumption of cold dignity. “Oh, we all feel sure he must be, sir. Of course your well-known and justly famous interest in all athletic sports, sir—not to say your prowess in them, sir—it’s natural to suppose that any athlete named Upton would belong to the same family with you, sir.”
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