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'We could easily make some plan that would extricate them. Dismiss them from your mind, and trust yourself to me. I know nothing that would delight me more than to baulk these robbers of their prey. 'I should not talk of such things, said Tancred; 'I must remain here, or I must return. 'What can you want to do on Mount Sinai? murmured the prince rather pettishly.
If you interfere to baulk his vengeance, you should remember there is one way to shut your testimony out; and that is to put you in the dock. There you would be in the same pickle as Mr. Thomson's kinsman. You will object that you are innocent; well, but so is he.
Gungadhura had not been idle while he waited for his message to reach Yasmini, but had sent some of the guard to find a baulk of timber for a battering-ram. The butts of rifles would have been useless against that stout iron. The gate shook now under the weight of the first assault, but the guards were handling the timber clumsily, not using their strength together.
But still, of course, it always pleases a fellow to know that his people are admired; and I know that my grandmother has views, grand views, smiling down at his cue. 'Shall I break? and he began with the usual miss in baulk. 'Thank you, said Mr. Hammond, beginning to play. 'Matrimonial views, of course. Very natural that her ladyship should expect such a lovely creature to make a great match.
I have, I say, long, in Obedience to this Most Potent Prince, acted as Prime Minister, and to tell me, that such a one will baulk his Master's, or his own Interest, on the Score of Religion; nay, in his publick Capacity, that he believes one Word of it, or has Ears for Justice or Compassion, wou'd be the same thing as telling me, a Flatterer, in his Encomiums has a strict Eye to Truth, or that a Poet who writes in Praise of great Men, believes them really possess'd of the Virtues he attributes to 'em, and has no other View in his Epistle than that of edifying others, by shewing the bright Example of his Patrons.
Boderie, the King's envoy in Great Britain, wrote that James would be willing to make a defensive league for the affairs of Cleve and Julich only, which was the slenderest amount of assistance; but Henry always suspected Master Jacques of intentions to baulk him if possible and traverse his designs. But the die was cast.
"Well, you may get bread and cheese, Pen: and I own it tastes well, the bread which you earn yourself." They had a magnum of claret at dinner at the club that day, at Pen's charges. It was long since he had indulged in such a luxury, but Warrington would not baulk him: and they drank together to the health of the Spring Annual.
Peace, white man, peace! This is for us. Dare to stop us, an' " Jacky sprang between her lover and the ferocious half-breed. "Bill, leave well alone," she said. And she held up a warning finger. She knew these men, of a race to which she, in part, belonged. As well baulk a tiger of its prey. She knew that if Bill interfered his life would pay the forfeit.
"Not for a thousand pound," said Hawker. "I wouldn't baulk myself now for a thousand pound. Hey! fancy turning her out such a night as this without sixpence in her pocket. Why, a man like you, that all the county knows, a man who has got two gold medals for bravery, ain't surely afraid of a thunderstorm?" "I ain't afraid of the thunderstorm, but I am of the rheumatism," said the other.
A most remarkable circumstance is, that I really don't think he grasped this sum even so much for the gratification of his avarice, which was inordinate, as in the hatred he felt for Copperfield. He said so to me, plainly. He said he would even have spent as much, to baulk or injure Copperfield. 'Ha! said my aunt, knitting her brows thoughtfully, and glancing at Agnes.
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