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With the sweetness, gentleness, simplicity, and delicacy so becoming to woman under all circumstances, were blended in her character, energy that was unconquerable, courage that danger could not blench, and firmness that human power could not bend. Faithfully too, in the midst of her missionary labors, did she discharge her duties as a mother.
"I know it!" said he, shaking tousled head. "But 'tis become nat'ral to me to slink and crawl and blench like any lashed cur, all along o' these accursed Spaniards; I've had more kicks and blows than I've lived days," he growled, munching away at the viands he had set forth. "Have ye suffered so much then?" "Suffered!" cried he with a snarl. "I've done little else.
They both looked at one another steadily, but the white face of the woman did not blench before the scintillations of his eyes. 'What you know I don't know, he said, steadily; 'but whatever it is, keep it to yourself, or , catching her wrist. 'Or what? she asked, boldly. He threw her away from him with a laugh, and the sombre fire died out of his eyes.
Ellen did not know whether she was really moved, nor, if she were, whether she could feel comradely with such emotion, since she had seen the woman blench at the thought of her son preaching in the street yet stay complacid at the prospect of him being lost in intellectual error. So she did not answer. "You must go for a long walk with Richard to-morrow," said Marion presently.
Could she mean me to cross that hair-like bridge? The mere thought was a terror. But I would not blench. Fear I confess cowardice if you will: poltroonery, not. 'I see, I answered. 'I will try. If I fall, don't blame me. I will do my best. 'You don't think, she returned, 'I'm going to let you go alone!
It is a strange thing that one who has learned not to blench from a bare blade, or in bursting of cannon-balls and flight of arrows, should so easily be daunted where a weak girl is concerned; yet so it was in my case. I know not if I feared more than now when Brother Thomas had me in the still chamber, alone at his mercy.
This serpent stands for the dire perplexity of things about us, at which yet Faith will not blench, acting according to what she believes, and not what shows itself to her by impression and appearance." "I admit all that you say," returned Mr Stoddart.
Then Beltane turned to see Giles o' the Bow, who leaned against a tree near by, wide-eyed and pale. "Look!" he cried, pointing with quivering finger, "one dead and one sore hurt Saint Giles save us, what have ye done? These be Sir Pertolepe's foresters behold his badge!" But Beltane laughed, fierce-eyed. "How, bowman, dost blench before a badge, then?
So he said: "Give me the point and edges that I know, that I may smite myself therewith and not the foemen; for I have feared and blenched from the battle." Said an old warrior: "If that be so, Thiodolf, wilt thou blench twice? Is not once enough? Now let us go back to the hard handplay, and if thou wilt, smite thyself after the battle, when we have once more had a man's help of thee."
And if I hate fiercely, so is my love ha, d'ye blench, fool, d'ye shrink; you thing shaped like a man, must ye cringe at the word 'love'?" "Aye!" said I, over my shoulder. "On your lips 'tis desecration!" "Desecration desecration?" quoth she, staring on me great-eyed and biting at her scarlet nether lip. "Ha, dare ye say it, dog?"
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