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But in spite of royal oaths and entreaties more of the former than the latter he sailed to Virginia on a land expedition. Two letters came from him during the next few years, but after that silence. His fate is not known. He was the first of many Cravens to vanish into oblivion searching for new lands." The pleasant voice hesitated and dropped to a lower, more serious note.
Now perhaps I have earned a few poor, little opinions but they are a ragged bundle and I have never any time to sort them." "Have you left the Venturists?" "No! but I am full of perplexities; and the Cravens, I see, will soon be for turning me out. You understand I know some working folk now!" "So you did last year." "No!" she insisted, shaking her head "that was all different.
They were proud hard men, and uttered no entreaty for grace. They had hung too many travellers upon these same branches not to expect their own turn, and they were no cravens to abase themselves. That act of justice ended, Henry mounted his warhorse and rode in at the gates.
It gave her for him a respect: he was at least a man before whom all these cravens trembled. And she imagined herself such another being: strong, confident, unafraid. Therefore to the King alone she could speak. She imagined him sympathising with her on account of the ignoble trick that Cromwell had played upon her, as if he too must recognise her such another as himself.
But these received a check at the gangway, for there stood the captain, revolver in hand. He spoke but one word "back," and the cravens slunk away. The mild man who had offered prayer sat on the ship's bulwarks calmly looking on. He understood the limited capacity of the boat, and had made up his mind to die. "Now, madam, make haste," cried the mate, pushing his way towards the widow.
The old Duchess of Bedford turned her sharp, bright, gray eyes from the pale and trembling friar to the goldsmith, but was silent. The queen stood aghast. "Mean you," she faltered, at last, "that the city of London forsakes the king? Shame on the cravens!" "Not cravens, my lady and queen," said Alwyn, rising. "He must have iron nails that scratches a bear, and the white bear above all.
The personal admirers and intimate associates of Harrison, were, of course, overjoyed. They were no doubt influenced to some extent by the fact that another long lease of power was in sight. Their leader's victory would inure to their own benefit. Still, there were no cravens among them. A banquet followed, participated in by a number of the leading citizens of the town and adjacent country.
Cravens, but that one is a mental vacuum and the other a ripsnortin' old virago is established beyond the peradventure of a doubt. Everybody connected with the Karnival is doing the Artful Dodger act to escape the withering storm of indignation which the pitiful episode called forth from the American people.
What had come over her husband and her son to make them cravens? For Freiherr Eberhard was more strongly convinced than was his father of the untenableness of their present position.
There came a time when the fight for life was waged mechanically, when all sense of thought vanished, and the carrying on of the struggle came down to mere animal instinct. At such times a brave man need not be ashamed to die the time has long elapsed when cravens perish. But the very brave, the physically as well as mentally brave, fight on to the end, instinctively. And so Dan fought.
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