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Updated: June 14, 2025
The brigandish guise which the Canaller so proudly sports; his slouched and gaily-ribboned hat betoken his grand features. A terror to the smiling innocence of the villages through which he floats; his swart visage and bold swagger are not unshunned in cities.
I cannot gainsay thy assertion, but who but my King could touch to life the almost undefined limning of moral faculty that has been my poor possession heretofore " "And who but thy King would give to thy swart issue a, no doubt, condign interest; come, curtail loquacity!" "Then, your Majesty, to be brief, I have raised for thee the subsidies thou were too modest to ask the House for "
The face glared at them, but made no answer; in a second or two afterwards, another, that of a young lad, appeared beside the first, equally swart and begrimed, but having tangled black hair, descending in elf-locks, which gave an air of wildness and ferocity to the whole expression of the countenance.
Half an hour afterwards he came sure enough, and with him the one Kaffir as was usual. Then the bars of the gate were let down, and the sheep suffered to escape through them, Swart Piet standing upon one side and the Kaffir upon the other, to take tale of their number.
Malvey, when not operating a machine gun for Mexican bandits, was usually busy evading a posse on the American side of the border. Needless to say, he knew the country well and the country knew him only too well. He had friends of a kind and he had enemies of every description and color from the swart, black-eyed Cholas of Sonora to the ruddy, blue-eyed Rangers of Texas.
"I remember both one and the other," said Giles Gosling; "it is sung of a dozen times a week on my ale-bench below. Sir Roger Robsart of Devon oh, ay, 'tis him of whom minstrels sing to this hour, 'He was the flower of Stoke's red field, When Martin Swart on ground lay slain; In raging rout he never reel'd, But like a rock did firm remain.
Robert was in fear lest they turn back, and a wider search elsewhere would surely take them to his house. But the men were now using English. "There should be water ahead," said the swart leader. "We're going down into a dip, and that's just the place where springs are found." Another man, also short and dark, urged that they turn back, but the leader prevailed.
And, Lem," Lon smiled evilly, and, looking into the swart face of his pal, said, "and I guess ye can make the gal come to yer likin'." Lem's throat worked visibly, his face reddened by the silent laughter that shook him. "I only want the chance," he said. "Come on and let's git a drink." Everett Brimbecomb had become impatient.
Then Jan asked those present if they would help him in this trouble, and being true men, one and all, they answered yes, so by seven in the morning the little commando, numbering twenty-one guns eight white men and thirteen Kaffirs started to seek for Swart Piet's hiding-place, and to rescue Suzanne if they might. "Alas!"
"His wits, mayhap," quoth Canaples with a contemptuous shrug. He was a tall, powerfully built man, this Canaples, with a swart, cruel face that was nevertheless not ill-favoured, and a profusion of black hair. "There is a temerity in M. de Canaples's rejoinder that I had not looked for," I said banteringly. Canaples's brow was puckered in a frown. "Ha! And why not, Monsieur?" "Why not?
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