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For she could not endure his masculine complacency and his assumption that success made him right, and when he had gone away she had told him to his face that he was a blow-hard and his money was tainted. Wunpost mulled this over, too, as he rode on up Jail Canyon and when he sighted the house he took Manuel Apache's scalp-lock and hid it inside his pack.
The visit of Bassett Senior to the school Blow-Hard Bassett as he was known in certain sections of the West was sadder and more pathetic. He was a big man who dressed gaudily; even the tragedy had not served to remove wholly from his appearance the garish quality that proclaimed his type. To Mr.
"It is no concern of yours how I talk and act, you stay-at-home blow-hard. My common sense will not let me believe any such reports, which are not reports at all, but something those newspaper men made up all out of their own heads, on purpose to give such fellows as you a subject to talk about.
Bassett looked at his friend keenly and seeing that Campbell's face betrayed skepticism he prepared himself mentally to exercise the same talents that had made his father, Blow-Hard Bassett, a successful seller of mining stock. The game with Wilton, on the last Saturday in October, was the first hard test of the season.
See how the old feelin' has come over me at sight of this bragging, blow-hard challenge. It makes my blood bile. "Race horse? Why, Richard Travis wouldn't know a real race horse if he had one by the tail.
You heard Marcy tell me to put a uniform on before I presumed to speak to him again, didn't you?" "Yes; and I heard his brother Jack call you a stay-at-home blow-hard.
We'll lay aboard this bloody blow-hard of a Cap'n Teach whilst he's a-buryin' of it. Here may well be where he has tucked away his other plunder. What if we bag the whole of it?" "One more fling, eh, Trimble, and more gold than ye lugged on your back from Guayaquil," grinned young Bill. They had spoken in cautious tones and now held their tongues.
He was always doing something to cause a commotion of some sort, like running away or getting into mix-ups nothing very bad, you know, just such things as young fellers are apt to do. Sometimes I talked to him but it never made much impression." As Blow-Hard Bassett looked out of Doctor Wells' shaded windows there was a hint of moisture in his eyes.
He was trying to break the big man's wind not good at the best and to wear him out in a vain chase. He aimed to make him so blind with rage he could not see to land his blows. To this end he kept up a running fire of taunts. "I shan't have to knock you out, Blow-Hard. You're doing for yourself nicely. Come on over here. Pretty slow! Pretty slow! Who was your dancing teacher, Joe?
There's Jazon, he's all right, and I have faith in Bosseron, and Legrace, and young Ronville." "Roussillon " Beverley began. "Is much of a blow-hard," Helm interrupted with a laugh. "Barks loud, but his biting disposition is probably not vicious." "He and Father Beret control the whole population at all events," said Beverley. "Yes, and such a population!"
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