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She finished the dance with him; but just as he, with laboured breath and beating pulse, was about to commence an intimate, low-toned conversation with her, she nodded an absent-minded "Thanks," without listening to what he was saying, and was immediately carried off by Mr. Rózycki, the butcher. Rózycki was a capital dancer, in spite of his stoutness.
But the change in the appearance and costume of the men who crowded the streets was even more notable. The uniforms and the pointed helmets of two years ago had vanished utterly. The men that one saw retained indeed their German stoutness, their flabby faces, and their big spectacles.
These laughed and jested after their kind, encouraging the youths to fight it out, and naming Laurence the brock or badger from his stoutness, and the slim Sholto the whitterick or, as one might say, weasel. "At him, Whitterick grip him! Grip him! Now you have him at the pinch! Well pulled, Brock! 'Tis a certainty for Brock good Brock! Well done well done! Ah, would you? Hands off that dagger!
Forward sprang the undaunted mate, clinging to the bulwark and belaying-pins, and followed by his hardy companions, until they had all three gained the main channels. Here, their exposure to the force of the breaking waves, and the stoutness of the ropes yielding but slowly to the blows of the axes, which were used almost under water, rendered the service one of extreme difficulty and danger.
A dizziness assailed me scarce was I on my feet, and it is odds I had fallen back, but that she caught and steadied me. "Mother in Heaven! You are too weak to ride," she exclaimed. "You must not attempt it." "Nay, but I will," I answered, with more stoutness of tone than I felt of body, and notwithstanding that my knees were loosening under my weight. "It is a faintness that will pass."
Instead of a brilliant strategical run round the enemy's flanks to a distant goal in his rear, there was fated to be a strenuous scrimmage all along the line. It was a democratic sort of war, depending for its decision upon the stoutness of the pack rather than on the genius of the individual.
"Do you know," he said, looking him in the face, "it is there you must go for your conversion?" "Are you serious, Monsieur l'Abbé?" And as the priest pressed his hands more strongly Durtal cried, "Ah, no indeed, first I have not the stoutness of soul, and if that be possible I have still less the bodily health needed for such a course, I should fall ill on my arrival, and then ... and then...."
You are dropsical, man; you are like to burst with it; and you take it for muscular healthy stoutness; you are congratulated only by the fools who do not see what is the matter; the instructed cannot help being sorry for you. But here in good time comes Sopolis; we will put you in the good doctor's hands, tell him all about it, and see if anything can be done for you.
There was something pronounced yet hard to define which gave him the outstanding prominence of a master among minions. He was a large man and inclined to stoutness. His hair and moustache were sandy and his florid face was marked with a purplish tracery of veins in which the blood appeared to bank and stand currentless.
Happily for August, the thick wrappings in which the stove was enveloped and the stoutness of its own make screened him from the cold, of which, else, he must have died frozen. He had still some of his loaf, and a little a very little of his sausage.
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