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"Mon mieux" was the motto St. Pol carved over the gateway; "Our worst" is the taunt the Germans have flung. But the combination of that best and worst is glorious to the eye. From Ham we spun on to Jussy, along the new white road which is so amazing when one thinks that every yard of it had to be created out of chaos a few months ago.
These wires had been laid underground, not, indeed, in the darkness, but, during the secrecy and silence of the previous night. After witnessing the effect on the first warrior, no other brave seemed inclined to venture on the skin, and the women, who enjoyed the fun greatly, were beginning to taunt them with cowardice, when Oolichuk strode forward.
From far above, they seemed to call to him, to taunt him with their imperiousness, to challenge him and the low-slung high-powered car to the combat of gravitation and the elements.
He dropped the handkerchief, and the great law of his own life seemed to rise up in his face and taunt him. He was clean. That had been his greatest pride. He hated the man who was unclean. It was his instinct to kill the man who desecrated another man's home. And here, in the sacredness of St. Pierre's paradise, he found himself at last face to face with that greatest fight of all the ages.
He would not hold himself up to ridicule now before those who should prove his strong supporters in the future; his proposal had not yet been put to the vote, and he did not mean to alienate his adherents by an insane show of maniacal rage. "Of that," he said in response to his host's taunt, and in a voice quivering with the mighty effort of control, "of that there is but little fear.
The situation recalled Chisley, and something of the old Ishmael stirred within him. He set his teeth and hurried on. 'Pea-souper! was the epithet most in favour amongst his tormentors. Why 'Pea-souper! Jim could not understand. He could see no aptness in its application to him, and yet it was certainly a term of mockery. 'Pea-souper! The taunt had an ignominious flavour.
"I am not preparing myself for a governess, that I should make a point of honor of such things, little pragmatical prig that you are; nor are you, that I know of. You will always have plenty of money. 'Rich as a Jew' is a proverb, you know, all the world over." The taunt had long since lost its sting; so I replied, meekly: "We none of us know what may happen.
It was a matter of indifference to me that this advance was carelessly received, since it satisfied my conscience and her who stirred its depths nor did my cheek flush at the derisive taunt that followed me from the room after this obligation to self was discharged "Now tattle again, little prophetess," for thus she often alluded to my Hebrew name and its signification, "and produce my squirrel, or look well to your wounded mole!"
"I tell you I don't care whom you `only' told. It's `only' all over the school. And it's not the `only' time you've behaved dishonourably." "I don't understand you," said Walter, who was rapidly getting into as great a passion as Kenrick. "Betraying confidence is almost as bad as breaking open desks, and burning " Such a taunt, coming from Kenrick, was base and cruel, and he knew it to be so.
The officer who guarded them was a ruffian and a villain, Captain Baumgarten. He took a pleasure in humiliating and ill-treating the brave men who had fallen into his power. That night upon my son answering fiercely back to some taunt of his, he struck him in the eye, like this!" The crash of the blow rang through the hall.
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