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He stepped back with a gesture of defeat but his feet gripped at the floor like a boxer's and his eyes fixed burningly on the point of Ted's jaw. Wait a split-second he wasn't near enough now there! His fist landed exactly where he had meant it to and for an instant he felt as if he had broken all the bones in his hand.
You can please yourself what you believe." "I believe you, John," said his wife, humbly. Mr. Boxer's countenance cleared and he drew her on to his knee. "That's right," he said, cheerfully. "So long as you believe in me I don't care what other people think. And before I'm much older I'll find out how that old rascal got to know the names of the ships I was aboard.
Patterson said to her husband, for the pair of them had waded the little stream in pursuit of the vision. "By George, she does," Stanley Patterson concurred. "Reminds me of Estrellita. Torso just well enough forward, slender waist, not too lean in the stomach, and with muscles like some lad boxer's armouring that stomach to fearlessness.
Lane gave ground, slowly, watchfully, guarding as best he could. Then his brown fist shot out and up. It moved scarcely six inches, straight for the college boxer's chin. Jack's knees sagged. He went down, rolled over, and lay still. Kirby found water and brought it back. Jack was sitting up, his back propped against the wall. He swallowed a gulp or two and splashed the rest on his face.
Following up his right-hand blow with all a trained boxer's swift dexterity, he sent a straight left hander flush on the angle of the light-bearer's jaw. The man dropped his lantern and collapsed into a senseless heap on the floor, while Alan, with no further delay, rushed toward the gaoler. The fall of the lantern extinguished the light.
Boxer's manner to her before Simon was invariably cringing and caressing, the old man never guessed the hardships his supposed grandchild underwent.
'He's coming round though, said Caleb; 'for he told me to keep on the near side of the road going home, and it was ten to one he'd take me up. I had better go, by the bye. You couldn't have the goodness to let me pinch Boxer's tail, Mum, for half a moment, could you? 'Why, Caleb! what a question! 'Oh never mind, Mum, said the little man. 'He mightn't like it perhaps.
She would have been glad to have shed tears, but tears were denied her. Except the Boxer's wife, there was no one to whom she could disclose her misery; but alas! for once, that amiable creature was incapable of affording her consolation. She herself, felt distress resulting from both the challenge, and her husband's jealousy, almost equal to that of Ellen.
He hasn't been here, has he?" "Not he," returned the Carrier. "He's too busy, courting." "He's coming round, though," said Caleb; "for he told me to keep on the near side of the road going home, and it was ten to one he'd take me up. I had better go, by-the-bye. You couldn't have the goodness to let me pinch Boxer's tail, mum, for half a moment, could you?" "Why, Caleb, what a question!"
"A dollar or ten bob heads!" cried the boxer, staking Chook's win. Chook spun the coins again, and as they dropped heads, the boxer raked in one pound. "Wot d'ye set?" he cried to Chook. "The lot," cried Chook, and spun the coins. Heads again, and Chook had two pounds in the boxer's hands, who put ten shillings aside in case Chook "threw out", and staked thirty.
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