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At the first sound of the bare steel I instinctively leaped back from the collision. The next I saw, James parried a thrust so nearly that I thought him killed; and it lowed up in my mind that this was the girl's father, and in a manner almost my own, and I drew and ran in to sever them. "Keep back, Davie! Are ye daft? Damn ye, keep back!" roared Alan. "Your blood be on your ain heid then!"
Apparently the other could not control his anger. He aimed another savage blow. Dick parried with a thrust, but this time his other fist landed on Cartwright's chest with force enough to send him staggering to a fall on the floor. At this moment a step was heard on the stairway. "Gentlemen! Stop this! What does it mean?" The voice was full of authority and outraged dignity.
His fluency was of an eagerness that parried interruption or inquiry. "So you've come acrosst the Big Bend! Ain't it a cosey place? Reminds me of them medicine pictures, 'Before and After Using. The Big Bend's the way this world looked before using before the Bible fixed it up, ye know. Ever seen specimens of Big Bend produce, ma'am? They send 'em East. Grain and plums and such.
We must have Mantua, likewise; in return, we give you Mentz; and not the Adige, but the Adda, must be our frontier." "Ah! I see new difficulties, new subterfuges!" exclaimed Bonaparte, and his eyes darted a flash of anger at the diplomatist. This angry glance, however, was parried by the polite smile of the count.
The fighting madness had come upon me, and I found my strong fingers firmly attached to the throat of my cowardly tormentor; as heedless of consequences, at the moment, as though we stood as equals before the law. The very color of the man was forgotten. I felt as supple as a cat, and was ready for the snakish creature at every turn. Every blow of his was parried, though I dealt no blows in turn.
And an objection of the same kind to the rainbow, considered as the sign or seal by which God attested his covenant in bar of all future deluges, may be parried in something of the same way.
General Longorio fingered his wineglass and stared into it. "I am not like other men. Would to God I were, for then I could close my eyes and forget. You have your great tragedy it is old to you; but mine, dear lady, is just beginning. I can look forward to nothing except unhappiness." He sighed deeply. "I'm sorry you are unhappy," Alaire parried. "Surely you have every pleasant prospect."
'Well, Tommy, said this gentleman, making a thrust at his friend, who parried it dexterously with his slipper, 'what's the news? 'A new appearance, that's all, replied Mr Folair, looking at Nicholas. 'Do the honours, Tommy, do the honours, said the other gentleman, tapping him reproachfully on the crown of the hat with his stick.
She had been prepared for this, and now suffered what she must, lifeless and pleasureless, with a dull pain in her heart. His aim for her lips was parried; as well he might have embraced a dead woman. Soon his passion burned itself out for lack of fuel; he set her down and looked moodily at her, panting. "Are you my wife? By the saints, are you not my wife? Why are you here?" "To serve my lord."
We parried our adversary's blows as long as we could with our parasols, but these lasted but a short time; besides, he caught hold of mine, which, as we were struggling for it, broke short off, leaving only a piece of the handle in my hand.
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