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Even at that distance the ship had something of the dishevelled appearance of a virago after a street-fight. She was the privateer. "Double Dutchman." A hand clutched his throat. Eyes of steel pierced him to the heart. "Frenchman or English? tell, or take the consequences!" "I couldn't tell you that," choking. A python arm swept about him. A face smiled into his. "I knew you wouldn't.
I'm afraid I'm so depraved to-night that even a street-fight wouldn't go against the grain." "You'd better forget it," advised Darrin quietly. "It's a dangerous frame of mind for a future officer and gentleman, who must acquire control over himself before he can be fit to command men." "You talk like a padre!" "No; I don't want to," Dave returned quietly.
The students of the Polytechnic School who had distinguished themselves in the bloodiest scenes of the street-fight with the troops of Charles X. sent a committee to the Hôtel de Ville with a military order, to which they demanded an official signature. The appropriate officer, M. Lobau, refused to sign it. "You recoil, do you?" said the determined young man who presented the ordinance.
So long as this habit continued, society was darkened by personal combat, street-fight, duel, and assassination. The Standing Army is to the nation what the sword was to the modern gentleman, the stiletto to the Italian, the knife to the Spaniard, the pistol to our slave-master, furnishing, like these, the means of death; and its possessor is not slow to use it.
Are you afraid that your sons and brothers will be cowards merely because they are not duelists? because they have never been engaged in a street-fight? because prayers were made at their departure? or because they have carried their bibles with them? Did Cromwell's soldiers flee before the cavaliers because they were sober and God-fearing men?
But one day the Master pulled me out of a street-fight by the hind legs, and kicked me good. "You want to fight, do you?" says he. "I'll give you all the fighting you want!" he says, and he kicks me again. So I knew he was my Master, and I followed him home.
With a sudden long-distance lunge he knocked down the pirate, who, thought he was at a safe distance. But Hicks, who had been well schooled in street-fight tactics, thoughtfully stuck out a leg and tripped the cook, who fell upon the groaning Boyd. Boyd, though down, was by no means "out," and held Filipo tight while Owen and Hicks slipped on the handcuffs.
The rest all men know; how through five days and nights we fought the great street-fight of Cahors; how we took no rest, save against walls and doorways, or in the courts of houses we had won; how we ate and drank with hands smirched with blood, and then to it again; how we won the city house by house, and foot by foot, until at last the white flag waved from the great tower, and France awoke with a start to know that in the young prince of pleasure, whom she had deemed a trifler, was born the shrewdest statesman and the boldest soldier of all her royal line.
The pictures of life they drew were as untrue as a description of a street-fight would be if written by a perfumed odalisque who had never crossed the threshold of a harem.
As the sun of the 13th Vendemiaire rose over Paris, a terrible street-fight began the fight of the sovereign people against the Convention.
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