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Updated: May 15, 2025
Christy had crawled out of his narrow quarters under the berth as soon as Dave began to operate on the sleeper above him, and he stood ready to assist the steward if his services were required; but there was hardly anything like a struggle, for Corny had been so completely surprised that he was incapable of doing anything in self-defence.
He did not dream of self-defence, he did not reach for his pistol. He drew himself up instead to face death, with a quivering nostril. "I guess I'll not trouble the Old Man," he said; "considering the job I was on, I guess it's better business to just shut my face."
True, he had but slain this fellow in self-defence. He had been well-nigh the victim himself. But the crime thus forced upon him seemed to cut the last cable which bound him to the life of the past.
"Without knowing all the circumstances, I would say yes. I've had the feeling that she was more sinned against than sinning." "Would you believe that she acted in self-defence?" "It is quite possible." "Then, will you explain why she does not give herself up to the authorities and assert her innocence? There is no proof to the contrary."
But, if we could not obtain anything which might secure us against future aggressions, should we have parted, without receiving any equivalent, with those weapons of self-defence, which, although they could not repel, might, in some degree, prevent any gross attacks upon our trade any gross violation of our rights as a neutral nation?
I went in and found it was the wives and sisters of the men whose bodies lie on the banks of the Whale River. There would be reason in fighting, if we had to defend our huts against the Fire-spouters. Self-defence is right; and every one has a good word for the brave men who defend their homes, their women, and their children.
"And yet you would deliberately deny her the surest means of self-defence?" "What do you call the surest means of self-defence?" "Some preliminary knowledge of human nature in its relation to the marriage tie." She made an impatient gesture. "How should you like to marry that kind of a girl?" "Immensely if she were my kind of girl in other respects." She took up the argument at another point.
The country in this part of their voyage was again very low, and they fell in with a large body of savages, with whom they were on the point of being forced, in self-defence, to have a deadly encounter, when suddenly the four natives who had accompanied them appeared running at full speed, and, through their assistance, though not without some difficulty, bloodshed was prevented.
In the governed classes, where the law was equal between men, and industry and commerce kept up healthy activity, the pressure was towards good. In the governing classes, where all right lay in force, where the necessity of self-defence induced treachery and violence, and irresponsibility produced excess, the pressure was towards evil.
He saw the old woman was resolved to outwit him, and he resolved to overreach the old woman. His marriage with Sally Flattery was to be merely a matter of chance. If he married her at all, he knew it must be in self-defence. He felt that her father had him in his power, and that he was anything but a man to be depended on.
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