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A man of desperate courage, a gambler, a professional duellist, a bravo, famous in his time among the "common hacksters and swaggerers" as the first to introduce the custom of foining, or thrusting with the rapier in single combats whereas before his day it had been customary among the English to fight with sword and shield, and held unmanly to strike below the girdle he had perpetually changed sides, in the Netherland wars, with the shameless disregard to principle which characterized all his actions.
But these swaggerers are the exception, and the prevailing impression conveyed is that of honest, if determined, bluffness. They are not posing, these jolly Dutchmen, they are sitting or standing, for Hals to paint them just as they would sit or stand to be measured for a suit of clothes. Look at the heads of the man and the woman in the National Gallery.
A man of desperate courage, a gambler, a professional duellist, a bravo, famous in his time among the "common hacksters and swaggerers" as the first to introduce the custom of foining, or thrusting with the rapier in single combats whereas before his day it had been customary among the English to fight with sword and shield, and held unmanly to strike below the girdle he had perpetually changed sides, in the Netherland wars, with the shameless disregard to principle which characterized all his actions.
As it is, they are becoming a byword even in London streets. Hark you, pretty Rosamund, have no fears. I will get Harry Gay to join with me, and together we will come to Highgate, and hang about your house in concealment until these bold swaggerers show themselves; and then we will set upon them, and give them such a trouncing as they shall not quickly forget.
Guards were posted at the gates: the Castle was occupied by a strong body of troops; and it was generally supposed that the enemy would not be admitted without a struggle. Indeed some swaggerers, who had, a few hours before, run from the breastwork at Oldbridge without drawing a trigger, now swore that they would lay the town in ashes rather than leave it to the Prince of Orange.
Into this society Irving entered with zest, flirting, dancing, tippling with other young swaggerers according to the mode. He went back nominally to his legal studies, but was really very little concerned with law or gospel. Of this kind of life, "Salmagundi," the first number of which, appeared in January, 1807, was the legitimate outcome.
So passed the new year festival of 1812 at the infant colony of Astoria. Expedition by Land. Wilson P. Hunt. His Character. Donald M'Kenzie. Recruiting Service Among the Voyageurs. A Bark Canoe. Chapel of St. Anne.-Votive Offerings. Pious Carousals, A Ragged Regiment.-Mackinaw. Picture of a Trading Post. Frolicking Voyageurs. Swells and Swaggerers. Indian Coxcombs. A Man of the North.
By eleven o'clock at night the polyglot confusion of tongues would have ceased, the gaudily-uniformed swaggerers, the velveteen-coated, wide-awaked loafers, the filthy tatterdemalions of all nations and their womenkind would have turned in. Then Lady Hannah, attended by the unwilling Trudi, was accustomed to venture out for what she called, with some exaggeration, "A whiff of fresh air."
There were thirty thousand of us tatterdemalions against eighty thousand swaggerers of Germans fine tall men and well equipped; I can see them yet. Then Napoleon, who was only Bonaparte in those days, breathed goodness knows what into us, and on we marched night and day.
"There are more swaggerers upon this beach than I," I cried hotly, and I felt my blood rise. My tone was more insulting than my words, and Cadillac, too, grew red. I saw the veins upon his neck begin to swell, and all my childish irritation vanished. "Come, monsieur," I hastened; "I was wrong.
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