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After more argle-bargle he consented to give me the visa on condition I went straight to the British Consul at Belgrade and did nothing without his advice. He signed, remarking that he took no responsibility. I paid and left triumphant, all unaware of the hornet's nest I was now free to enter.
"Business for men; and you're a better man than most of us, girl; but you surely didn't reckon that Cal and me would let you go careening down in gunshot of that hornet's nest." "I'm as good a shot as there is in the hills," she said. "And it was my ranch they burned." The sheriff shoved back his hat and pushed his fingers through his mop of gray hair. "Fact," he confessed. "Every word.
The Army boys were glad enough to obey. "We're right in the middle of the hornet's nest," whispered Noll. Fifty feet further on the Army boys came upon a rudely built shack under which a number of brown men were huddled to escape the rain. "The outpost crowd," whispered Hal. "Noll, I believe we're getting into the heart of the Moros' camp."
Now cries were heard from all sides, growing in volume until the sound was as of some gigantic hornet's nest awakened into angry activity. To the clangor of gongs was added the blare of trumpets, and from the walls of the fort and palace, from the hill beyond, from every cliff along the shore, echoed and re-echoed an immense and furious din.
I was the most unpopular figure in Virginia, hated by many, despised by the genteel, whose only friends were my own servants and a few poverty-stricken landward folk. I had found out a good way of trade, but I had set a hornet's nest buzzing about my ears, and was on the fair way to be extinguished. This alliance between my rivals and the Free Companions was the last straw to my burden.
To gaze upon a rheumatic knee-joint, for instance, in the height of the attack, swollen to the size of a hornet's nest, hot, red, throbbing with agony, and looking as if it were on the point of bursting, one would almost despair of saving the joint, and the best one would feel entitled to expect would be a roughening of its surfaces and a permanent stiffening of its movements.
I have," she continued, "seven sons who are now, or have been, bearing arms indeed, my seventh son, Zaccheus, who is only fifteen years old, I yesterday assisted to get ready to go and join his brothers in Sumter's army. "Ah General," interrupted the cold-hearted Tarleton, "I think you've got into a hornet's nest!
"Other gunpowder arms were there procured, and we barricaded Cowgill House so as to make it at once a decoy and a hornet's nest.
The tie that knit them together was woven of impalpable strands, but it was unbreakable while he and his generation were above the earth. "Dar ain' no end er trouble, Marse Gabriel, ez long ez dar's yo' chillen en de chillen er yo' chillen ter come atter you. De ole ain' so techy dey lets de hornet's nes' hang in peace whar de Lawd put hit but de young dey's diff'rent."
I have seen one young man, a deaf mute, whose narration in this manner of a hunter who made a pair of buckskin breeches, hung them up during the summer, drew them on when the rainy season came on, and found a hornet's nest within, was interpreted amid roars of laughter. Thus told, it was far more vivid than words could have possibly made it, and infinitely more amusing.
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