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You were pluckier than the whole gang of us!" "That's true; this little blonde must have had courage to tell us the truth right in our faces." "After all, it is true, when we strike Mont Saint Jean, we do strike her child." "I didn't think of that." "Nor I either." "But La Goualeuse thinks of everything." "And to strike a child is shameful!" "There isn't one of us capable of doing it."
I think many a boy might have been frightened when told to go off to the other side of the world so suddenly. After Jaggers another boy did an even pluckier thing.
Then every boy knew it must be going hard with Bulldog; for there was not in broad Scotland a cleverer, pluckier, cheerier soul in his great profession than John Manley, M.D., of Edinburgh, with half a dozen honours of Scotland, England, and France.
Arthur thumped along into his own room and went happily to bed, feeling that girls were pluckier that he had thought them, and that even crutch-bearers could accomplish something in the world.
Plenty of people told them about Timbuctoo, and Jerusalem, and Madagascar, and North and South America, but this region's just a trifle out of the way. A lady may easily sign a cheque or pack a missionary's medicine-chest, but she could not come out here among dangers and filth and discomfort, and the men ashore are not much pluckier.
'Well, you see, he explained loftily, 'I don't suppose I'm pluckier than most people, but it just happens that I'm not afraid of Red Indians, that's all; when I saw all those at Buffalo Bill's I wasn't even excited: it's constitutional, I fancy. He always modelled his talk a good deal upon books, and a crisis like this naturally brought out his largest language.
Meanwhile, so the irony of the fates ordered it, the two mates, each in charge of one of the Flamingo's lifeboats, were commanding crews made up entirely of Germans and Scandinavians, and pluckier and more careful sailormen could not have been wished for. The work was dangerous, and required more than ordinary nerve and endurance and skill.
I never had reason to regret my bargain; a better servant, pluckier traveller, or cheerier companion no man could wish for. Gerôme had just returned from a visit to Bokhára, and his accounts of Central Asia were certainly not inviting. The Trans-Caspian railway was so badly laid that trains frequently ran off the line.
Two Arrows was summoned and came forward, and a great many eyes were upon him. "Young brave!" said Captain Grover emphatically. "I never heard of a pluckier volunteer in all my life. Take that; keep your head level, that's all. You've more courage than you've any real need of." "That" was a handsome silver-mounted army revolver.
"I've known pluckier women than you to change their minds, under pressure." He came nearer, bending over, face close to hers, eyes savage, and gripped her wrists none too gently. "Tell me!" "Let me go." He proceeded calmly to imprison both small wrists in one strong, bony hand. "Better tell." "Let me go!" she panted, struggling to rise. His voice took on an ugly tone. "Tell!"
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