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Updated: June 6, 2025
The little soldier had used to good purpose his long strolls with his comrades in the Jardin des Plantes and round the Place du Chateau-d'Eau, where his barracks stood, and the result was the acquisition of the swaying, expansive graces of the Parisian fire-eater. He had learnt the flowery talk, gallant readiness, and involved style of language so dear to the hearts of the ladies.
Lion's Claw also turned up again, getting his cloths of yesterday one more being added from the Sheikh's stores and he was then advised to go off quietly, as I was a fire-eater whom nobody dared approach after my orders had been issued. This was our third march in Uzaramo; we had scarcely seen a man of the country, and had no excessive desire to do so.
"I can tell you where." Carroll stared at her, astonished. "But I don't think I will." "He announced his intention of keeping out of my way. The man has no sense of shame." "You probably scared the poor lamb out of his wits, fire-eater that you are." Carroll would have liked to think so, but an innate sense of justice beneath his crust of prejudice forbade him to accept this judgment.
When the sound had faded quite away, the Lord of Ivarsdale breathed out the rest of his resentment in a hearty imprecation, and, turning, came on to his patient. His voice was as gentle as a woman's as he dropped on his knee beside the slim figure. "What is your need, little fire-eater?" A memory of her haunting terror stirred in the girl.
David looked into the major's stern old eyes with such a depth of sympathy in his young ones that a barrier suddenly melted and with the tone of bestowing an honor the old fire-eater told the tale of the sorrow of his youth. "Gaming was in his blood, David, and we all knew it and protected him from high play always.
"No, thank you, Captain Clephane. That old-fashioned feeling is infectious." "Then I will," cried Bob, "to show there's no ill-feeling. You old fire-eater, I believe you just put up the argument to change the conversation. Wouldn't you like a chair for those game legs?" "No, I've got to use them in moderation. I was going to have a stroll when I spotted you at last."
"Here's a man who has done nearly as much single-handed as the rest of us put together and fought through as stiff a Fleet action as the hungriest fire-eater in the navy wants to see, and tells you he isn't injured, while half of us are knocked to scrap-iron. I wish we had fifty Ithuriels, there'd be very little landing on English shores."
There was always much joking in the air, but back of it was a certain reserve, a certain wariness, for every second man was a professed "fire-eater," given to feeling insulted on the slightest grounds, and flying to the duel or the street fight instanter.
Either he had been privy from the first to the plot to waylay the horse; or he had bought it cheaply knowing how it had been acquired; or a third alternative it had been placed in his hands, to the end that his reputation as a fire-eater might protect it.
Tarkington's more serious plots and not merely those earlier ones which he constructed a score of years ago when the mode in fiction was historical and rococo. Van Revel in The Two Van Revels, convinced and passionate abolitionist, nevertheless becomes as hungry as any fire-eater of them all the moment Polk moves for war on Mexico, though to Van Revel the war is an evil madness.
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