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Be on your guard, and if a boy tries to smite you on one cheek, you duck, and side-step, and smile at him, and keep your hands up so if he makes a feint to smite you on one cheek, just stand him off, and maybe he will think that you are onto his smiting on the cheek business yourself, and are no chicken, that is going to keep cheeks for other people to smite, and he may quit, and you can laugh over it, and consider the incident closed.
He knew Cassidy merely as the messenger whose freight he coveted, and not as a contestant for Nora's heart and hand, a hand he prized, however, as he would a bob-tailed flush, but no more. As for Cassidy, he would be glad, waking, to find himself alive; and if this plan miscarried, Buck should be able to side-step the gallows. Anyway, dope was preferable to death.
"No, sir; you just let him search for your cheeks, and if he won't quit, you finally give him your left in the neck, and side-step, and keep out of his way, and if he wants more, find a place where there is an opening, and jab him until he quits looking for cheeks to smite, and other cheeks to turn also.
They came instead to other steps, narrow and steep, that led upward in a semicircle to a rough hole in a rock wall. At the top there was a little yellow light, so dim and small that its rays scarcely sufficed to show the opening. "Go up!" said Ismail, giving King a shove and disappearing at once. One side-step into blackness and he might have been a mile away.
The fellow pitted against Juag was a veritable giant; he was hacking and hewing away at the poor slave with a villainous-looking knife that might have been designed for butchering mastodons. Step by step, he was forcing Juag back toward the edge of the cliff with a fiendish cunning that permitted his adversary no chance to side-step the terrible consequences of retreat in this direction.
"Order an 'about face," whispered the Orderly-Sergeant, whose face was burning with shame at the awkward position in which the company found itself. "ABOUT FACE!" gasped Alspaugh. The men turned on their heels. "Side-step to the right," whispered the Orderly. "Side-step to the right," repeated Alspaugh, mechanically.
"'Pardon me, friend, whined my companion, stepping out in front of him, 'but can't you give a fellow a lift? I'm a mechanic by trade, and "'Oh, cut it out! said the fat man, leering knowingly. 'I'm on to what you're going to say. Why don't you fellows vary your song and dance just for luck? G'wan. Get out of the way! And he tried to side-step us.
He would also have noticed his wide-open, credulous, and generous eye; the narrowness of his head just behind the ears, indicating his inclination to side-step anything in the nature of a disagreeable contest or combat.
As once before, and under somewhat less hazardous conditions, he came up behind Rufford, and again the gambler felt the pressure of cold metal against his spine. "It ain't an S-wrench this time, Bart," he said gently, and the crowd on Biggs's doorstep roared its appreciation of the joke. Then: "Keep your hands right where they are, and side-step out o' Mr. Lidgerwood's way that's business."
On her way to her room she encountered Natalie. "Come with me," she said shortly. "Where were you this morning?" Natalie asked. "Professor Futelle was awfully fussed about absentees. Eight girls cut French today." "Where was I? I was in bad, I'll say. What? Well, I guess. I got a second summons this A. M. I couldn't side-step it.
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