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English Home Rulers, unable to see a yard in front of them, whose training and instincts are of the goody-goody, milk and water type, the lily-livered weaklings, who measure the courage of others by their own, may be excused their inability to conceive the situation.
The Honourable Mr Compton's face gradually bleached, as he looked from one to the other. "He said you were no gentleman," repeated Fastnet, determined there should be no mistake about the matter. "Isn't that so, youngster?" appealing to Roger. "That is what I said," said Roger. The lily-livered hero was hanging out his true colours at last.
Brimblecombe in the ear, and told him he had better play the man a little more, roaring less before he was hurt, and keeping his breath to help his strokes, if he wished the crew to listen much to his discourses. Frank, hearing this, bade Amyas leave the offender to him, and so began upon him with "Come hither, thou recreant Jack, thou lily-livered Jack, thou hysterical Jack.
Didn't the judge swear oh, it was awful!" "I should say so." "An the pitchers that wa'n't mixed was so goldinged black you couldn't tell 'em from niggers. You know how kind o' lily-livered Lawyer Ransom is? Wal, he looked like ol' black Joe; he was the maddest man of the hull bi'lin'. He throwed the book in the fire, and tromped around like a blind bull." "It wasn't a success, I take it, then.
"But this I know that if you intend us treachery you shall have my knife in your gullet for your pains." "Fool!" I scorned him, "since when has it been worth the while of any man to betray such creatures as are you? Plague me no more! Be moving, else I leave you to your coward's fate." It was the tone best understood by hinds of their lily-livered quality.
"Good lad!" exclaimed Carew, as Yorke hurried up to help him; "you are a good plucked one, you are; you shall keep the lodge, if you will, instead of that lily-livered scoundrel who was too frightened to move. Oh, I ask pardon; you are a gentleman, are you?" "Sir, I hope so," answered the young man, stiffly, his anger only half subdued by the necessity for conciliation.
They lay sprawled about their fire, four grim-looking fellows, ragged and unkempt, three of them talking together and one who lay groaning ever and anon. "Be damned, t'ye, Joel for a lily-livered dog!" growled a great, bony fellow, "Here's good an island as man can want " "And full of bloody Indians eh, Humphrey?" says a black-jowled fellow, turning on the wounded man.
Are you friendly with that young fool, Lancelot Vane?" "Friendly? Why, to be sure. He's always good for a bottle if he chance to have the wherewithal about him. And he's the best company in the world when that comes about. A couple o' glasses knocks him over, and you can finish the rest of the bottle at your ease." "Gad! He's one of your feather-brained, lily-livered fellows, is he?
Even amongst many who did not actually sympathize with the murderer there seems to have been a lurking sense of pride that it was a Bengalee who had had the courage to lay down his life in the striking of such a blow. Khudiram Bose at any rate was not "lily-livered."
"If we ARR men of honour, we are bound to stick to our word; and, hark ye, you dirty one-eyed scoundrel, if you don't immadiately make way for these leedies, and this lily-livered young jontleman who's crying so, the Meejor here and I will lug out and force you." And so saying, he drew his great sword and made a pass at Mr.
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