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"Merely," replied Sir Dugald, "that you will visit my brother knight, and let your maiden bring some medicaments for his wound, which threatens to be what the learned call a DAMNUM FATALE." Annot Lyle never lingered in the cause of humanity.
Now to be inured to undergo labour, is to be accustomed to endure pain: "Labor callum obducit dolori." Cicero, Tusc. As for proof, in our present civil war whoever draws his sword against the laws, threatens the honestest men with the whip and the halter.
The point at issue is not that there is talking or doing here or there by certain gentry who imagine that they are making history. The real issue is in the clash of two classes, two interests, two cultures, two conceptions of the world, two moral systems. Who is it that wishes to seize the crown of lordship? It is the Kham, it is he who threatens to devour our culture."
Sergeant Corney begged hard to be allowed to accompany the two officers, but the colonel said, laughingly: "You will remain where you are, sir, unless it is in your mind to leave here because of the danger which threatens. Already have you done enough in the way of scouting." "I hope you do not think, sir, that I would run away because of anythin' like that?"
In his correspondence with sovereigns, in his official proclamations, in his deliberations with ambassadors, and even at public audiences, he provokes, threatens, and defies. He treats his adversary with a lofty air, insults him often to his face, and charges him with the most disgraceful imputations.
This war, small as it now is, threatens, however, to spread to a great one; and though the danger may pass away now for the moment, it is certain that one near day Albania will be the cause of another Balkan war: for it is to kindle that war that she has been brought into existence. Even to-day the position is immediately threatening.
I confess that until I came to this country I did not know that you had so few colours. Our spectrum already consists of twelve colours visible to the naked eye, and at least five more are distinguishable through our powerful magnifying glasses." St. George was silent. It was as if he had suddenly been permitted to look past the door that bars and threatens all knowledge.
Do you suppose those wolves could have gotten a buffalo calf out from under the mother? Never. Neither could a whole band of wolves. Buffalo stick close together, and the little ones do not stray. When danger threatens, the herd closes in and faces it and fights. That is what is grand about the buffalo and what made them once roam the prairies in countless, endless droves."
So many butcheries in his name he will shrink, be sure he will shrink every day will have its remorse, every night its terror, every minute its anguish; and the abdication he already threatens will come at last perhaps too soon. That is now the only danger; you must provide against it. "In case of an abdication, the grand penitentiary has understood me.
Bring the soldier into action, and his blood will run hot enough to make him intoxicated and insensible to fear; hold him in reserve, and courage will begin to ooze. Give us daylight in which we may see aught that threatens us, and likely enough we shall have desperate courage sufficient to rush in and grapple; it is in the darkness that uncertainty sets teeth chattering.
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