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"By God and His saints!" he roared, "though it may be all that it is given me to do, I'll strike a blow to punish these dastards who have betrayed me, and to crush the presumption of this captain who attacks us with fifty men. It is a contempt which he shall bitterly repent him."
No; I came into town with some Sockdolager ore, and you dastards all tried to get me drunk; and I finally made a deal with the barkeep at The Mint to show him the place for a thousand dollar bill. Well, didn't I show him the place and didn't he come back more than satisfied with his pockets bursting out with the gold?
Then, having said everything that could stir a man's spleen or pique his valor, they would dare their imaginary hearers, now that the Bannacks were few in number, to come and take their revenge receiving no reply to this valorous bravado, they would conclude by all kinds of sneers and insults, deriding the Blackfeet for dastards and poltroons, that dared not accept their challenge.
Then the knight of Ireland rode to his shield, and when he saw how foully it had been used he cried, "This is a foul shame; but I have requited it upon those dastards. For the love of her who gave me this white shield I shall wear it, and hang mine where it was." Thereupon he took the white shield, and left in its place the one he had just used.
For wherefore should I love them less than heretofore? Have they become dastards, and the fools of mankind?" Quoth Richard: "They are no more fools than they were belike, nor less valiant. But thou art grown wiser and mightier by far; so that thou art another manner man than thou wert, and the Master of Masters maybe. To Upmeads wilt thou go; but wilt thou abide there?
Eloise was first to speak in protest. "What do you mean by two of us? Do you deem us dastards enough to leave you here alone?" He smiled into her face with the tender smile of a woman, and held up his shining silver crucifix. "Daughter," he said modestly, "my work is not yet done. Upon this symbol I took solemn oath to live and die in faithful service to the heathen tribes of this river.
There then were the dastards slain; and their bodies served for a rampart against the onrush of the Markmen to those Romans who had stood fast. To them were gathering more and more every minute, and they faced the Goths steadily with their hard brown visages and gleaming eyes above their iron- plated shields; not casting their spears, but standing closely together, silent, but fierce.
I was playing a part in a comedy, a grim comedy, a mere interlude in tragedy, but still comic. "You incurred these, I say, not in the accident, but while gallantly defending the Grand Duke from the dastards who assailed him later!" I worked up a modest blush; or I tried to. "I see that it is useless to attempt to conceal anything from you, Monsieur; you know too much!" I confessed, laughing.
"What a parcel of fools and dastards have I nourished in my house," cried the monarch when the struggle had reached an acute stage, "that not one of them will avenge me of this one upstart clerk!" Four knights took the king at his word, posted with all speed to Canterbury, and charged the prelate to give way to the wishes of the sovereign. "In vain you threaten me," À Becket rejoined.
On one theme, which is commonly before our eyes, and in respect of which our national character is changing fast, let the plain Truth be spoken, and let us not, like dastards, beat about the bush by hinting at the Spaniard and the fierce Italian. When knives are drawn by Englishmen in conflict let it be said and known: 'We owe this change to Republican Slavery. These are the weapons of Freedom.
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