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The other looked the more truculent, and was saying to him, intensely, "See here!
He don't look after himself right, I say. A fellow has to look out for himself some in this world. If he don't, no one else will." "Right you are, Henry," echoed a truculent sea voice from somewhere. I was becoming both amused and interested, intensely so. "If he wasn't that way, he'd be a darned sight better off than he is," said a thirty-year-old helper, from a far corner of the room.
And when at last he saw Dave Rankin, the blacksmith, watching him curiously, he guffawed aloud, rubbing his hands gleefully. "I don't reckon I ever seen no mournfuller sight than that!" he declared. "Meanin' which?" asked the blacksmith, his eyes alight with truculent inquiry. The others sat erect, attentive.
Nor have I any wish other than to lay before you, as representing Government, a certain matter of State business." There was silence while the Minister of War permitted this exhortation to sink in. Then, apparently reassured, he sat up in bed and eyed his untimely visitor with a glare little short of truculent. "Eh? What's that?" he demanded. "Business? What sort of business?
Not handsome, in any exact sense, was Nikky, but tall and straight, with a thatch of bright hair not unlike that of the Crown Prince, and as unruly. Tall and straight, and occasionally truculent, with a narrow rapier scar on his left cheek to tell the story of wild student days, and with two clear young eyes that had looked out humorously at the world until lately.
That truculent personage told them, in reply, that they had done wisely, for if they had delayed receiving the garrison a minute longer, he would have instantly burned the city to ashes and put every one of the inhabitants to the sword.
I might be acquitted, after all, and if I attempted to bribe the turnkey before my examination, and he should betray me to his superiors, my condemnation would be a foregone conclusion. The mere attempt would be regarded as an admission of guilt. It was both treacherous and truculent, and I felt that if I trusted him he would be sure to play me false.
Brady put back his head and laughed a loud and hearty laugh, by no means elegant, but without much sound of truculent intentions. It was on the Thursday of Whitsun-week when Lady Adela and Bertha came down from their visit of inquiry, a little more hopeful than on the previous day, though they could not yet say that recovery was setting in. But a great shock awaited them.
Therefore, for the luckless Montalvo, when the case had been proved to the hilt against him by the evidence of the priest who brought the letter, of the wife's letters, and of the truculent Black Meg, who now found an opportunity of paying back "hot water for cold," there was little mercy.
Get that? You're the biggest little man in creation, but you've done your best. You cut loose." "You shut up. I'm going to make holes this time deep enough to haul up a span of horses." "You've held me up long enough," Smoke urged. "Let me go." "How many times have I held you up?" came the truculent query. "Some several, and all of them too many. You've been coming down all the time."
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