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Updated: May 8, 2025
Some even smoked their pipes with that half-blank, half-truculent expression which people find so provoking in public officials at times of popular excitement. Still a close inspection showed that the military were busier than usual. Patrol guards issued from the courtyard at more frequent intervals, and the knowing ones observed that they were doubled.
"A word of advice, young man, from one who knows. Be frank, say little, answer promptly: do what the King bids you and be thankful." "Is that a threat?" La Mothe answered the tone of half-truculent command rather than the words. "A threat? No! The King and I do not threaten, we fulfil." "The King and you?" "I have said so, do you want it proved?"
It was a tall figure in white satin with a train of cloth of silver thrown over her arm. There was nothing of the nervous débutante in the attitude, nor was there the half-truculent self-assertion of the modern girl.
And Gooja Singh stood a little forward from the others, half-truculent and half-afraid. "What do you want?" asked Ranjoor Singh. "Of what were you whispering?" But Gooja Singh did not answer. "No need to tell me!" said Ranjoor Singh. "I know! Ye all seek leave to loot! They gasped at him all of them, Tugendheim included.
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