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The second degree, it was whispered about among the girls, was bound to be a "hummer." "They say it's a test of your character," said Bobby, with a shiver. "Somehow, Betty, my character oozes out of my shoes when it knows it should be prancing up to the firing line." "I guess you imagine that," smiled Betty. "Speak sternly to it, Bobby, and explain that funking is out of the question."
She made the picture, forced it upon him, hung it before him; remembering, happily, how he had gone so far, one day, supported by the Principino, as to propose the Zoo in Eaton Square, to carry with him there, on the spot, under this pleasant inspiration, both his elder and his younger companion, with the latter of whom he had taken the tone that they were introducing Granddaddy, Granddaddy nervous and rather funking it, to lions and tigers more or less at large.
Go down and load the two muskets, and give them to the safest men. When the lighters DO come, borrow the fireman's iron rods. I've lent the steward my bowie that I got at Charleston, and you can try and hold that old bulldog straight. We mustn't show the least sign of funking." Then Hindhaugh and his brother called for tea, and fed solidly.
"Speak out: aren't you going?" "Oh dear," Volodya wept softly. "How can I go? I feel so unhappy about mamma." "My pale-face brother, I pray you, let us set off. You declared you were going, you egged me on, and now the time comes, you funk it!" "I . . . I . . . I'm not funking it, but I . . . I . . . I'm sorry for mamma." "Say once and for all, are you going or are you not?"
"Yes, tip-top, a new song from one of the music halls in London. Now then, be you coming or not, Bet?" "No, no, she's funking it," suddenly called out a dancing little sprite of a newspaper girl. She came up close to Bet as she spoke, and shook a dirty hand in her face, and gazed up at her with two mirthful, teasing, wicked black eyes.
These men work in the midst of action. Moreover, our troops are hard pressed. Our division has borne the brunt for three days in almost unparalleled action." "Would you advise me to leave them funking in the trenches?" Kohlvihr demanded.
He made it a kind of parable, countries you'd got to go through before you'd learnt to be really brave; and the first, and by far the easiest courage is the sort that you want when you haven't got things the sort the Gambits want when you're starving or out of a job. Well, that's I suppose the easiest kind and yet I'm funking it.
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