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I never saw diamond eyes," answered the jailer; "but I've seen glass ones in a doll's head looking very bright. Why, you 'aven't got mad, like some of the chicken-hearted birds in our cage?" "Yes," cried the youth, "I'm frantic-mad; but stay, have patience. Did she want to see me?"
But, still, shiver my topsails, if I wants any bribery to make me do my duty; besides, if 'twas only for them poor girls alone, I would go through fire and water to sarve them. I'm not very chicken-hearted in my old age, your honours, but I don't recollect the time when I blubbered so much as I did when Miss Madeline come aboard.
I reckon I 'm not more than chicken-hearted, if ye come to that." The meal was now over, the dusk had deepened as they lingered about the table, and Goodwife Pepperell rose to light a bayberry candle and set it on the chimney-piece. "Sit ye down by the fire again, while Nancy and I wash the dishes," she said cordially. "Thank ye kindly," said the Captain, "but I must budge along.
Such an experience as this was apt to discourage Uncle Peter Forbes from trying it again. There were sundry chicken-hearted passengers anxious to curry favor with Blackbeard, who gabbled when they should have held their tongues, and in this manner he learned that he had bagged the honorable Secretary of the Provincial Council. The bewhiskered pirate slapped his thighs and roared with glee.
Here we have been these many years, doing all the most dangerous and daring work of the order work that others were too chicken-hearted to undertake and what is our reward? We are esteemed as the meanest of the Clan, and as being hardly fit to associate with those who claim to be the gentlemen of the League. Why, I believe the officers would cut our throats at any time to save themselves.
"Here's your mother coming. She would be perfectly miserable to find you gone." "It is impossible I should stay here." "Don't be so chicken-hearted, Frank. If she has a heart worth speaking of, she'll come round, if you only press hard enough. If not, you are well quit of her."
"Yes; I got a little fright from the suddenness of it," said Hamilton quietly. "What do you think of my friend there?" said Harry to Jacques, in a low voice, pointing to Hamilton, who walked on in advance. "I've not seen much of him, master," replied the hunter. "Had I been asked the same question about the same lad twenty years agone, I should ha' said he was soft, and perhaps chicken-hearted.
"You still think of marrying Clara Desmond?" "Certainly; of course I think of it." "And when? I presume you are not so chicken-hearted as to be afraid of speaking out openly what you intend to do." "I cannot say when; I had hoped that it would have been very soon; but all this will of course delay it. It may be years first." These last were the only pleasant words that Owen had heard.
"I may inform you as well soon as syne, you waste your breath, Sholto," said Earl Douglas, "and it ill becomes a young knight, let me tell you, to be so chicken-hearted. The next time I will leave you at home to hem linen for the bed-sheets. Malise is a licensed croaker, but I thought better of you, Master Sholto MacKim!"
Luckily enough for all mankind in general, and our lovers in particular, Charles's last letter was very unlike some that had preceded it; for instead of the usual "Oh, my love"'s, "sweet, sweet eyes," "darling"'s, and all manner of such chicken-hearted nonsense, it was positively sensible, rational, not to say utilitarian: though I must acknowledge that here and there it degenerates into the affectionate, or Stromboli-vein of letter-writing, at opening especially; and really now and then I shall take leave to indicate omitted inflammations by a *.
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