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He had swayed her, overpowered her; he had lacked only the courage to trust his instinct. Coward's luck! It served him right. He had held her in his arms and had let her slip through; her lips had been raised to his, and he had refused to press them. Imbecile! He groaned; he tore the collar and the tie from his neck, for they were choking him. Old, eh? Too old!
This is the way you proposed to make use of me! You got me into that room and drugged me. I was to lie there while you murdered that man with my weapon. Then you would creep away, and in the morning there was I and the dead man! I was to be the tool, the girl there the lure. It was well worked out, Louis, but it was a coward's plan and a coward's trick!"
Without a word Dan turned away, prepared to walk on to the next opening. The boy with the basket, evidently encouraged, followed us: "Now, I'm going to give you your coward's blow," he said, stepping in front of us; "will you take it quietly?" It is a lonely way, the Outer Circle, on a winter's afternoon. "I'll tell you afterwards," said Dan, stopping short.
It was not easy, but with care she managed to poise the basin and the ewer in it on top of the door, so that it leaned on the lintel and must fall as soon as the door was pushed wider. "Now," she said, when it was done, "let's have a look at that cut." It was an ugly gash high in the back, to the left of the spine a bungler's or a coward's attempt at the terrible heart-stab.
To the bully's utter astonishment, one of Glyn's hands only rose quick as lightning and had him by the throat. "You dare!" he cried. "Strike me if you dare! Yes, it would be a coward's blow. But if you do I won't answer for what will happen, for I shall forget what you have done, and and " "Here, Severn! Severn! What's the matter with you?" gasped Slegge excitedly. "I haven't done anything.
Scarcely twenty-four hours have elapsed since fortune seemed to smile upon me from every side, and now the very destiny I most dreaded stares me fully in the face." A reprimand, or the sentence of a court-martial, I shrank from with a coward's fear. It mattered comparatively little from what source arising, the injury to my pride as a man and my spirit as a soldier would be almost the same.
"Don't be afraid of him, he's a coward. Take off your things, and you try hard if you can't lick him." "Must I fight?" I said. "Now then, you sir, off with that jacket," cried Burr major, "or he'll give you the coward's blow."
But neither that faith nor mine permits him to avenge a blow." "I was one against many," he answered boldly. "My life was on the hazard: it was no coward's act." "Were there, then, a troop of these hyenas?" asked Miriam, innocently. "I thought you said it was a solitary beast that took the sheep."
Rivière rose with determination and flung the thought aside. "Fate" was only a bogey to frighten children with. "Fate" was a coward's master. Every man had the right to rough-hew his own life. He, Rivière, had chosen his new life with eyes open, and, right or wrong, he would stick by his choice and hew out his life on his own lines.
Take hold. I've kept it as sharp as it was in the old days when I followed you to victory, ready to die for you, master, as I am this day, for I can't live to disobey you again. Take it, I say, master, and let me die at once; better that you should cut me down than that I should myself fall upon my sword, for that has always seemed to me a coward's death."
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