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Updated: May 27, 2025
Folks said Mate Snow was not the kind to forget an injury, and yet it was Mate who stood behind the minister through those first days of shock and scandal, who out-faced the congregation with his stubborn, tight lips, and who shut off the whisperings of the Dorcas Guild with the sentence which was destined to become a sort of formula on his tongue through the ensuing years: "You don't know what's wrong, and neither do I; but we can all see the man's a saint, can't we?"
If I could have done so with any remains of self-esteem, I would now have fled from my foolhardy enterprise. I had out-faced these men, I would continue to out-face them; come what might, I would stand by the word spoken. The sense of my own constancy somewhat uplifted my spirits, but not much.
"You'll be lucky, when that time comes, if you don't get your heels tangled up with a telegraph pole before you reach the river," concluded Hawk tauntingly. "Let him keep away from me if he doesn't want trouble," snarled the discomfited gambler, eying Bucks threateningly. But he was plainly out-faced, and retreated, grumbling, toward the dance-hall steps.
And do you think I have no honour, then? or that I am one that would betray a friend? I hold up my right hand to you and swear." "O, I knew you would be true!" said I. "It's me it's here. I that stood but this morning and out-faced them, that risked rather to die disgraced upon the gallows than do wrong and a few hours after I throw my honour away by the roadside in common talk!
Upon what grounds did I found the hope that Fulton would not soon find out about Lucy and me? Why, on the grounds of moral cowardice, of course. I dreaded to face any drastic, final issue. There was no other reason. Well, if I was to prove to myself that I was not a moral coward, Fulton must be told and the issue faced, and Fulton himself must be out-faced.
"Ha!" quoth Sir Hacon, "and what of Red Pertolepe? Truly our case is desperate methinks, old comrade!" "Why, 'tis not the first time we have out-faced desperate odds, Hacon!"
And do you think I have no honour, then? or that I am one that would betray a friend? I hold up my right hand to you and swear." "O, I knew you would be true!" said I. "It's me it's here. I that stood but this morning and out-faced them, that risked rather to die disgraced upon the gallows than do wrong and a few hours after I throw my honour away by the roadside in common talk!
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