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It was a grand opportunity for me to brave these poltroons on their own ground, and show them how a hero behaves at a fire. So I took advantage of a policeman turning another way, to break bounds and run into the open space. "Come back!" shouted the policeman. "Come back!" yelled the mob. "Mind the wall!" cried a fireman. I was delighted, and already glowed with glory.
People talked of Brutus, and thus the indiscretion which had made Pierre rather anxious, really redounded to his glory. At this moment when terror still hovered over them, the townsfolk were virtually unanimous in their gratitude. Rougon was accepted as their saviour without the slightest show of opposition. "Just think of it!" the poltroons exclaimed, "there were only forty-one of them!"
They denounced the Northerners as cowards, poltroons, negro-worshippers; claimed that one Southern man was equal to five Northern men in battle; that if the South would stand up for its rights the North would back down. Mr.
Drunk as they were, this consideration staggered them, but Kurzbold was mad with rage and wine. "Come on, you poltroons!" he shouted. "There are only three of them." "Draw your swords, gentlemen," whispered Roland, flashing his own blade in the moonlight. Greusel and Ebearhard obeyed his command. Ebearhard laughed, and took two steps forward.
In his stern pride he did not condescend to put in motion any revenge against these petty poltroons, but went on his way with absolute indifference to all outward seeming.
"Brother," cried Bath, "I own it was wrong, and I ask the doctor's pardon: I know not how it happened to arise; for you know, brother, I am not used to talk of these matters. They are generally poltroons that do. I think I need not be beholden to my tongue to declare I am none. I have shown myself in a line of battle.
Singlehanded he must kill a man and bring the maid a trophy of the slaughter before she will even consider him, and Danakil maids of spirit often demand some plurality of trophies. Thus the license for each Danakil mating is written in the life blood of some neighboring tribesman; thus are the few poltroons in Danakil-land condemned to stay celibate.
Shaken and strained as she had been during her disastrous voyage, it took but a short time to break her up, but the bow had been thrust high between two rocks and remained fast. Circumstances do not change character, but they often bring it to the front. Heroes and poltroons may remain unknown until a sudden incident or change of condition reveals them.
But it were as easy to muzzle a dog who is about to devour his prey! Everything they said to him only excited him more. He called them poltroons and declared that he would say everything everything that he ought to say. If they wished to get rid of him, they were free to do so! The whole town would know that they were as cowardly as the rest: but he would not go of his own accord.
That all men are vile, that they are liars; scoundrels, poltroons, and idiots alike ever ready to deceive and yet easily to be duped, and that he only is fit to be king who excels his kind in the arts of deception; by this great maxim of the Florentine, Philip was ever guided.
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