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"So be it," said Blunt, with great readiness, tossing down a similar weapon which he himself held. "Do not go, Myles," cried Gascoyne, "he is a villain and a traitor, and would betray thee to thy death. I saw him when he first gat from bed hide a knife in his doublet." "Thou liest!" said Blunt. "I swear, by my faith, I be barehanded as ye see me!
You know part of it, and part of it you don't know. He'd hang himself in a minute if he could get my neck in the same noose." The master-mechanic threw the whittled match away, as if the argument were closed. "That is where you are lame, Flemister: you don't know your man. Put it up to Hallock barehanded: if he comes in, all right; if not, you'll put him where he'll wear stripes.
Now one fine breezy afternoon, when the lads were shouting and playing at this, then their favorite game, Myles himself was at the trap barehanded and barearmed.
"There ain't no 'maybe' about it!" said the farmer. "I am most generally right when it comes to understanding nature!" "All except when you pulled up that poison ivy, barehanded!" said the hired man, and both of them laughed, and the farmer said: "Those basswood bobs did look so much like cherry pits, that they would have fooled anybody but an expert!"
I started for my gun; he got it out of my hand; I pulled my knife. He got that away, too. His fingers work with steel springs and act like a cat's claws. Then we fought barehanded. He didn't say a word. But kept snarling in his throat. Always like a cat. And his face was devilish. Made me sick inside. Pretty soon he dived under my arms. Got me up in the air. I came down on my head.
Angry as he was, he became suddenly dominated by something that was more potent than his rage. "Stop!" he cried sharply, and with such ringing force that Phil involuntarily obeyed. "I can't fight you this way, Phil," he said; and the other, wondering, saw that whimsical, self-mocking smile on his lips. "You know as well as I do that you are no match for me barehanded.
My men are not armed, but there are enough out there to handle the servants barehanded. No one can get out of this house without being seen; I've attended to that." "And you propose searching the rooms?" "I do. If you had been a little more genial I might have exhibited greater courtesy. But I haven't any use for Eric, and never had. Now you know the truth."
Now I say, damn the people anywhere in the whole country that won't pay their debts from pioneer to pioneer; that lets us fight the wilderness barehanded and die fighting; that won't risk " A gray film dropped down over the world, a leaden shroud that was not the coming of twilight. Dan jerked about, his whip cracked out over the heads of the leaders and they broke into a quick trot.
It awakened in Donald all the blind, fighting spirit which, in gridiron days, had driven him with clinched teeth into the thick of the battering mêlée. He sprang into a crouching posture, face turned toward the taunting sound, every muscle taut, every nerve tingling, and with but one thought surging through his brain the desire to charge back and attack Judd, barehanded.
It made her heartsick the sadder because nothing could be done about it. Stay and help? As well stay to put out a conflagration barehanded and alone. As the carriage reached wider Second Avenue, the horses broke into a trot. Susan drew a long breath of the purer air then shuddered as she saw the corner where the dive into which the cadet had lured her flaunted its telltale awnings.
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