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His voice sounded: "Gregg Haljan, do you yield?" Carter leaped up from where he and I were crouching. Against all reason of safety he leaned from the low window, waving his hamlike fist. "Yield? No! I am in command here, you pirate! Brigand murderer!" I dragged him back sharply. "For God's sake " He was spluttering; and over it Miko's sardonic laugh sounded. "Shall we argue about it?" I stood up.
Isaac Richier, who became Governor of the colony in 1691, was another celebrated freebooter. The account of his reign reads like a romance. The love of gold, and the determination to possess it, was the one idea of his statesmanship. He was a pirate at sea and a brigand on land.
"Salvat was quite right when he said you were a real good man! And as you employed him here for a few days you know too that he isn't a wicked one.... Now that he's been put in prison everybody calls him a brigand, and it breaks my heart to hear them."
However, I wasn't going to give it up, so I was just playing to amuse myself a little before daylight." "Before daylight?" said Aunt Faith; "what time do you think it is now?" "I suppose about four or five," said Tom. "It isn't one yet," said Hugh laughing. "Come in and go to bed, you young brigand."
The crowds there are thick as flies round a honeycomb! I must go thither myself I would not miss the sight for a thousand francs!" And he ran off, as full of the anticipated delight of looking at a brigand as a child going to its first fair. I put on my hat and strolled leisurely round to the scene of excitement.
An old English gentleman of that quiet school which affects liberality and moderation, but entertains deepest animosity, deprecated the violence of my language and sentiments, and expressed his painful astonishment at hearing such opinions from the mouth of a clergyman; "They would not be unbecoming," added he, with great bitterness of tone, "in that sanguinary brigand, Doheny."
"There was a great roar of triumph from the crowd, and poor Eugène looked as blank as a thief in the Salle de la Police. "'No, no! yelled the young brigand 'life for life! "'So be it, said the colonel gravely, 'and you, by Mussulman law, are your father's destined avenger.
This captain, who was not the friend I had joined the day after my brigand adventure, was a most plucky and dashing cavalry officer, and was well seconded by his men, who were all Piedmontese, and of very different temperament from the Neapolitans.
An order for my confinement as a "Brigand Anglais," was made out by the indignant "commission," and I was transferred from my narrow and lonely cell into the huge crowded building in the opposite cloister, which had been the scene of the attack on the previous night. I could, with Cato, "smile on the drawn dagger and defy its point." I walked out with the air of a Cato.
"He certainly is, and I must congratulate him," said Myra. "Is it true, by the way, that there is a daring brigand lurking about in the mountains around here?" "You mean El Diablo Cojuelo, señorita?" the maid responded, and instinctively crossed herself. "He has not been seen for months, but his very name still terrifies. He is daring beyond belief, señorita, and no woman is safe from him.
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