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Then all in a moment the sobbing ceased, he felt the hands relax, and then an avalanche of darkness crashed down on him, and buried him beneath it. That game of consequences to which we all sit down, the hanger-back not least. Down, very deep down. Buried in an abyss of darkness, shrouded tightly in a nameless horror that pressed on eyes and breath and hands and limbs.
He said a man ought to have the courage to strike out for what he wanted; that the ship-wrecked who got desperately ashore was a better man than the hanger-back; that a great misfortune was a great compliment. It measured the resistance of the man. Destiny would not send artillery against a weakling.
"Not so easy to take that fort," growled Godefroy, who was ever a hanger-back. "All the better," retorted M. de Radisson. "Easy taking makes soft men! 'Twill test your mettle!" "Test our mettle!" sulked the trader, a key higher in his obstinacy. "All very well to talk, sir, but how can we take a fort mounted with twenty cannon " "I'll tell you the how when it's done," interrupted M. de Radisson.
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