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Updated: May 12, 2025
They did not essay to enter the apartment, but scanned its every corner from where they stood, and then, when their eyes had sought its entire area, a look of fierce rage overspread the features of Matai Shang, and a cold and cunning smile touched the lips of Phaidor. Then they were gone, but not before a taunting laugh was thrown directly in my face by the woman.
"Perhaps you were thinking that he has extended his front too far?" said the consul, and there was infinite sarcasm in his tones. Sergius grew crimson under the taunting voice and the little, shifty eyes. "I have ventured to say," he replied haughtily, "that the consul, Varro, is not using our numbers as he might.
He had to confess to himself with renewed bitterness that he was indeed, and by no fault of his own a helpless dependent upon the charity of this man who had, in taunting him with the fact, wounded him so grievously. His impulse was to run away but where could he go?
They address themselves particularly to the young men, accusing them of a lack of courage and of other parts, taunting them with the fact that the young women will have none of them, that in their day their young men brought in heads, etc. Thus it has happened, especially when any native drink was going about, that trouble has followed.
His professional instincts had told him that unless something could be done something which the highest medical skill in London had thus far been unable to devise Myra Duquesne had but four hours to live. Somewhere in his mind a memory lurked, evasive, taunting him.
But, soon tiring of this taunting amusement, or perhaps apprehensive of exhausting his own strength, which was powerfully and most dexterously exerted, it was not long before he darted off in a perfectly straight line, taking the direction of the "Rover."
But it cannot be averred that he was invariably kind. There seemed to lurk in his mind a sense of injury, which he visited upon her in sarcastic gibes and allusions to the Forest, taunting her with impatience to have done with him and begone to her dearer friends.
Such is the language of those fiendish tormentors, words of taunting and of reproach, of hatred and of disgust. Of disgust, yes!
Who would deliver her to him? The hordes, and the machinery, all the mighty preparation, were, in fact, less for conquest and glory than love. Sore the test had there been one in authority to say to him: "She is thine, Lord Mahommed; thine, so thou take her, and leave the city." A third time the challenge was delivered, and from the walls a taunting cheer descended.
So, taunting again! Assurance as you are! said he: I will not be thus talked to! Pray, sir, said I, of whom can a poor girl take advice, if it must not be of her father and mother, and such a good woman as Mrs. Jervis, who, for her sex-sake, should give it me when asked? Insolence! said he, and stamped with his foot, am I to be questioned thus by such a one as you?
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