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"Y' know how he found her again, eatin' garbage in the Black Hills where the miners had cast her off; how he gave her an asylum an' a home; an' this is the man y'r fulthy sheriff poltroon coward says she'd shoot! Men, men o' th' Nation, murder has been done here: coward assassin murder on an innocent man! The notes on the mine have been robbed from his pocket. Who planned this murder?
"Look here; I'm sure my father wouldn't like me to fight you with swords, whether you pinked me as you call it, or I wounded you." "Pish! Frank Gowan, you are a poltroon." "Perhaps so; but look here, Andrew Forbes, you've often made me want to hit you when you've been so bounceable and patronising. Now, we were going to see your friend to-night " "We are going to see my friend to-night, sir.
Bah! What a poltroon, my Flintwinch! Eh? 'A cur, sir. 'Agreed! A cur. But he wouldn't have done it, my Flintwinch, unless he had known them to have the will to silence him, without the power. He wouldn't have drunk from a glass of water under such circumstances not even in a respectable house like this, my Flintwinch unless he had seen one of them drink first, and swallow too!
It was tremendously ludicrous; the utter spinelessness of the creature so at variance with the boastful scorn of his previous words and tone so obviously showed him to be a coward that all we could do was laugh and turn away. You could no more think of striking that weak, backboneless poltroon than of hitting a six months' old baby.
O'Ruddy," he added, "were you pleased to say to the gentlemen which I would not care to hear with my hands tied behind me?" "I told them why you took that sudden trip to Bristol," I answered softly. He fairly leaped in a sudden wild rage. "You told them?" he stuttered. "You poltroon! 'Twas a coward's work!" "Be easy," said I, to soothe him.
These Germans are now full of beer and pigeon-pie. What am I but a poltroon, unworthy to lace the shoes of the great leaders of my land? The sun has witnessed my disgrace." How long he stayed there lying on his face he did not know before he heard the voice of Joe saying, "Wot oh, sir!" "Joe," replied Mr. Lavender faintly, "my body is here, but my spirit has departed."
He could have killed Marcos, but he considered that it would be a mistake, since it would add nothing to his reputation and would probably make him disliked in the district. That was all very well, I replied, but how could any one who was not a poltroon endure to be publicly insulted and challenged without flying into a rage and going for his enemy?
Welch replied to the lawyer's attack, pronouncing him to be "destitute of delicacy, decency, good manners, sound judgment, honesty, manhood, and humanity; a poltroon, a cat's-paw, the infamous tool of a party, a partisan, a political weathercock, and a ragamuffin."
There was a murmur of assent from his braves. Uttamussac! They would probably make a two days' journey of it. We had that long, then, to live. Captors and captives, we presently left the hut. On the threshold I looked back, past the poltroon whom I had flung into the river one midsummer day, to that prone and bleeding figure. As I looked, it groaned and moved.
His claim was admitted with difficulty, for he stood accused of having acted the part of a poltroon in the campaign, and Washington seems to have considered the charge well founded. Still he appears to have been dissatisfied with the share of land assigned him, and to have written to Washington somewhat rudely on the subject.
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