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And the cost might be my life. They would find out; they would know how he died. This is no coward's act like smiling at a man and giving him each day powdered glass or chopped hair of a leopard in his food, which many of our women do, to kill and leave no trace. If I break, I pay."
Immediately the master was on his feet, and with a swift, fierce blow, caught Thomas on the chin. Thomas, taken off his guard, fell with a thud on the floor. "Stop that, young man!" said the minister, catching his arm. "That's a coward's blow." "Hands off!" said the master, shaking himself free and squaring up to him.
And now what did it hold, this letter, this "call to arms" that he sat here waiting for, while out there in that little town a man lay dead on the floor of his room, and around whom, where there had once been the evidence of a coward's guilt, crowned with the sorriest epitaph that ever man had written, there was now the evidence of a still blacker crime the crime of murder.
Hedonism has no meaning. It, too, is a lie, at best the coward's smug compromise." "Now will I cap you!" the White Logic breaks in. "But if you would not this poor life fulfil, Lo, you are free to end it when you will, Without the fear of waking after death."
These two will guide me on the rope. Cou. You meane to dance, then? De. Yes, the Canaries, but with quicker tyme Then you, I hope, can follow: thus I begin. Cou. What a heathen Coward's this? how the rogue tripps like a fairie to the towne with 'em! He has been a footman, sure; I have not aire enough to overtake him, and twill be darke presently.
That Jeanne should have flouted him was not in itself so terrible, because he had quite made up his mind that sooner or later he would take a coward's revenge for the slights he had been made to endure at her hands. But that he should have been flouted in the presence of a whole roomful of people, that he should have been deliberately left for another man, was a different matter altogether.
We made an informal pool of our resources in tobacco, each man sharing with his neighbor, till nearly every one of us was puffing away, and deciding there was nothing to this German attack, after all. A smoke makes just the difference between sticking it out or acting the coward's part.
"Oh, no," she replied, shrinking back. "I couldn't. We're very strict!..." After supper, Mr. Palfrey opened the discussion on Marriage. He declared that Marriage was the coward's refuge from Love. He said that Marriage had been invented by lawyers and parsons for the purpose of obtaining fees and authority.
"But this I know that if you intend us treachery you shall have my knife in your gullet for your pains." "Fool!" I scorned him, "since when has it been worth the while of any man to betray such creatures as are you? Plague me no more! Be moving, else I leave you to your coward's fate." It was the tone best understood by hinds of their lily-livered quality.
'And I forgot the part of cowardice, resumed Mr. Archer. 'All men fear. 'O, surely not! cried Nance. 'All men, reiterated Mr. Archer. 'Ay, that's a true word, observed Old Cumberland, 'and a thief, anyway, for it's a coward's trade. 'But these fellows, now, said Jonathan, with a curious, appealing manner 'these fellows with their seventy pounds! Perhaps, Mr.
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