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He chanced, when going to his audience of leave-taking, after the arrival of his successor, Don Inigo de Cardenas, to meet the Venetian ambassador, Antonio Foscarini. An altercation took place between them, during which the Spaniard poured out his wrath so vehemently, calling his colleague with neat alliteration "a poltroon, a pantaloon, and a pig," that Henry heard him.
"The thing seemed an injustice to me, sir," I replied in self-defence, "and the man a rascal." "A rascal!" cried the Major, "a knave, a poltroon, a simpleton! And he came to me with no tale of having been outwitted by a stripling."
You announced your flight to Crowborough House, but did not say when, so I crept to Bruton Street, seeing Lady Henry in every lamp-post, got a few clandestine words with Hutton, and knew, at least, what had happened to you outwardly and visibly. "Last night did you think me a poltroon to vanish as I did? It was the impulse of a moment. Mr.
Sophocles would have been aware of nothing wrong in it; he would have taken it quite as a matter of course. Euripides saw clearly that Admetus was a selfish poltroon, and rubbed it in for all he was worth. And he could not leave it at that, either; but for pity's sake must bring in Hercules at the end to win back Alcestis from death.
She asked Rodney had she not been a good squaw to him. And Rodney, who at best was but a poltroon, could only repeat: "You got to keep away from here. It’s the white man’s law—one squaw for one man." From within came the sound of Sally’s lamentation as she called for her father and brother to take her from the squaw and contamination. Warren Rodney was a man of few words.
You are too much of a poltroon to be a safe comrade in adversity." She sprang from her chair and ran to the doorway. Then she looked back. "Hark you, Jean Paulet! This price upon my head it is a fine price, hé? Well, I am little, but I have a tongue, and I know what my papa de Marigny knows. Ah! the fine tale to tell, if they catch us! Eh? Farewell."
"Less would you like it with a man, poltroon!" said she, with an exaggerated expression of contempt in her manner. "However," she added, "if you are a coward, you shall have a coward's punishment."
When Demetrios enacts the poltroon I am the most hasty of all men living to assert that the excellency of his reason is indisputable. Let us get on! I have only five hundred sequins, but this will be enough to buy your passage back to Quesiton. And inasmuch as we are near the coast " "I think some others mean to have a spoon in that broth," Demetrios returned. "For look, messire!"
"Come in, then, poltroon!" She cooed softly and encouragingly from the bedroom, where Marthe was busy with her. The door between the bedroom and the drawing-room was open. G.J., humming, obeyed the invitation and sat down on the bed between two heaps of clothes. Christine was very gay; she was like a child. She had apparently quite forgotten her migraine and also the incident of the policeman.
"The man who refuses to apologize, and that abjectly, must take down his sword from the peg and settle with me!" A shout of apology was the response. "We grovel at your feet, High Mightiness!" cried the man who had called him poltroon. "I have taken the liberty of ordering a fish and meat supper, with a double quantity of Rudesheimer wine.
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