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"It would, sir!" quoth I. "And a foolhardy." "Mayhap," said he, "yet am I minded to adventure it" "How, sir with one sword and a knife?" "Nay, Martin, by God's aid, strategy and a dog. Come then, let us follow; they cannot go far, and I heard them talk of camping hereabouts. Softly, lad!" "But, sir," said I, amazed at this audacity, "will you outface five lusty men well-armed?"
One is just out of Newgate, and the other is a blackguard Scot late dismissed the Duke of Buckingham's service." "Ye lie," and Oates' rasping voice was close to his ear. "'Tis an incraidible tale. Will ye outface me, who alone discovered the Plaat, and dispute with me on high poalicy?... Now I come to look at it, ye have a true Jaisuit face. I maind of ye at St. Omer. I judge ye an accoamplice..."
Gib, so by your leave I'll call you as you were christened." I had forced myself to a slow coolness, and my voice seemed to madden him. "Ye would outface me," he cried. "I see ye are an idolater from the tents of Shem, on whom judgment will be speedy and surprising. Know ye not what the Lord hath prepared for ye?
"I've got you, Scottie," he said, "and so help me heaven, you're the first man that I've wanted to kill." It would have taken a man of supernerve to outface that situation. And the nerve of Scottie cracked. He began to whisper with a horrible break and sob in his breath: "Andy Andy, gimme a chance. I'm not fit to go this way. Andy, remember " "I'm going to give you a chance.
It was all too grand, too wonderful, amazing to look upon, no doubt, and good to outface foreign envy with, but not to be endured every day nor lived with comfortably.
Thus the story was circulated, with a thousand additional circumstances to the prejudice of the sufferers, one of whom had thought proper to withdraw into the country, until the scandal raised at her expense should subside; while the other, who was not so easily put out of countenance, resolved to outface the report, as a treacherous aspersion, invented by her lover as an excuse for his own inconstancy; and actually appeared in public, as usual, till she found herself neglected by the greatest part of her acquaintance.
'While I may scape, I will preserve myself: and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape, That ever penury, in contempt of MAN, Brought near to beast: my face I'll grime with filth; Blanket my loins; elf all my hair in knots; And with presented nakedness outface The winds, and persecutions of the sky.
If I could have done so with any remains of self-esteem, I would now have fled from my foolhardy enterprise. I had outfaced these men, I would continue to outface them; come what might, I would stand by the word spoken. The sense of my own constancy somewhat uplifted my spirits, but not much.
Just as in the early days of British Somaliland, rascals would descend from nowhere in particular upon unfortunate villages, levy taxes and administer atrocity in the name of the Empire, and even, I am told, outface for a time the modest heralds of the government, so in this department of anthropology the public mind suffers from the imposition of theories and assertions claiming to be "scientific," which have no more relation to that organized system of criticism which is science, than a brigand at large on a mountain has to the machinery of law and police, by which finally he will be hanged.
There, all right. Let me tell you there is more lace and velvet downstairs than you can show, and jewellery! No end of it! But as for born good looks, you can outface them all." "Don't I look very pale and jaded?" "Very white, miss; you always do, and red cheeks would be as much out of your style as paint on a corpse.
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