Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 2, 2025
To stay here is to die; and if I go there, the end will be the same a poisoned cup, a bravo's blow, or a judge's sentence obtained by perjury. Messala and the procurator Gratus are rich with plunder of my father's estate, and it is more important to them to keep their gains now than was their getting in the first instance.
You give your word, we give ours, and the matter is safer for accomplishment than if a contract were engrossed on a dozen sheepskins and sealed with the Fisherman's Ring! 'Certainly, certainly, assented the Senator, who did not like the Bravo's eyes. 'You have my word, I have yours, and that is enough.
But it was an effort to raise her hand to her forehead in making the sign; and suddenly, as if in answer to her prayer, she seemed to hear the Bravo's voice close beside her: "And Judas went out and hanged himself."
All loved, all valued him, for his extraordinary talents for a bravo's trade, to which he seemed peculiarly adapted, not only by his wonderful strength of body, but by the readiness of his wit, and his never- failing presence of mind. Even Cinthia was inclined to feel some little affection for him, but he really was too ugly.
Indeed, if I had known it, I should only have laughed at her, for I had nothing to dread from her bravo's dagger. I had never seen him nor spoken to him; he could have no opportunity for attacking me. He was never with the king in the morning and never went to the palatin's to supper, being an unpopular character with the Polish nobility.
Furious, the corporal struck another wild blow with his staff, but Gambardella dodged it even more easily than before, being behind the lantern that dazzled the other; and as the iron-shod stick hit the ground after missing its aim, the officer felt the Bravo's blade run through the muscles of his upper arm, like a stream of icy water, followed instantly by burning heat.
And, perchance still failing, then might I expect the common bravo's steel in my back or the common poisoner's philter in my wine, my meat, or bread. "I am busy," I said. "Begone." "My business with you presses," was his reply. Insensibly our voices had slightly risen, so that Philippa heard. "Begone, you Italian hound," I said. "Take your howling from my door. I shall attend to you presently."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking