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Her joyous eyes saddened, she hung her head, and her fingers crumbled the cake. 'Jealousy, she whispered. His blood lost its glow, ran cold. He felt the bully's blows on his own skin, his romance turning suddenly sordid. But he recovered his courage. He, too, had muscles. 'But I thought he just missed seeing me kiss your hand. She opened her eyes wide. 'It wasn't you, you darling old dreamer.
All that saved him from a beating was his size; even the ones who disliked him would not stand for the bully's beating up a smaller child. But in other ways they picked on him. Jimmy reasoned out his own relationship between intelligence and violence. He had yet to learn the psychology of vandalism but he was experiencing it. Finding no enjoyment out of play periods, Jimmy took to staying in.
It was a sad, painful sight; all the partizans of the bully began to eye him with scorn. "Now, you yellow-liver, you show the white feather!" shouted Pastiri. "You're flitting about like a grasshopper. Off with you, my boy! You're in for it! If you don't get out right away you'll be feeling a palm's length of steel in your ribs!" One of Leandro's thrusts ripped the bully's jacket.
But at that instant footsteps sounded in the locker room, and the bully's hands dropped and he turned his head toward the door just as a small, red-haired and freckle-faced little Irishman came into sight. "Hello, Eric the Red," he said jovially. "An' what might you be doin' down here, me boy?" "I'm telling these fresh kids to get out of here," replied the youth. "Any objections?"
It did not ease his mind that he knew Constantine Jopp had done the thing out of meanness and malice; for he was alive to-night in the light of the stars, with the sweet crisp air blowing in his face, because of an act of courage on the part of his schooldays' foe. He remembered now that, when he was drowning, he had clung to Jopp with frenzied arms and had endangered the bully's life also.
"All right, Baxter, wait and see. I'll put you where your father is." The bully's face reddened. "Will you shut up, or do you want another crack on the mouth?" "It's only a coward who would strike a person when he is helpless." "Coward or not, I want you to keep a civil tongue in your head." "Perhaps you imagine we don't know who tried to wreck the stage," went on Tom pointedly. "Wreck a stage?
I knew at last who he was, and wondered why I had not recognized him sooner the contractor who had questioned us near the railway encampment along the way, and had offered us directions; but his manner was as different now from then as a bully's in and out of school. Then he had sought to placate, and had almost cringed to Monty. Everything about him now proclaimed the ungloved upper hand.
He was only too willing to help," went on Will, plainly fully believing in the change of heart on the town bully's part. "Say, that's all mighty interesting, but talk to me about it after you get a fellow out of this black hole. I thought I felt a snake right then. We used to kill 'em in here, too. Poke the ladder down, boys, please." "That's a fact.
I kill a d d Yankee with a Yankee's pistol. I suppose they want to thin the breed off." The bully's words, instead of intimidating Fred, had a contrary effect, for I saw by his eyes that his mind was made up, and all feeling of compassion was banished from his bosom.
Naturally, after young Digby's statement, Jack's was one of the first to be scrutinized. The committee turned it over and over, and were about to pass on it, when Mr. Wingate, who had been bending attentively over the bully's model, gave a sudden exclamation.
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