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Updated: June 24, 2025
Very brave men, familiar with the perils and horrors of war, experienced duellists, intrepid explorers, seamen whose nerves are never shaken by the white squall of the Levant, or the storm in the Bay of Biscay, or the tempest round some of the most rugged coasts of Australia such men are often turned white-livered by the threat of assassination that terrible pestilence which walks abroad at night or in the dusk, and dogs remorselessly the footsteps of the victim.
He gazed at them, preparing them for a startling revelation. "Men, of all the white-livered traitors as ever was Red Pearce was the worst!" he declared, hoarsely. No one moved or spoke. A low, strange sound, almost a roar, breathed through the group. "Listen now an' don't interrupt. We ain't got a lot of time.... So never mind how I happened to find out about Pearce.
"It's not up to you to choose, as it happens," the leader of the outlaws suggested suavely. "You villain! You damned white-livered coward!" The look of the young sheriff scorched. "Speaks right out in meeting, don't he?" grinned Lane. "I know what he is, Jack," Melissy cried. "And he knows I think he's the lowest thing that crawls. But I've got to save you. Don't you see, I've got to do it?"
Westerfelt's horse had stepped on a dry twig. There was silence for a moment, then Dill laughed softly. "Nothin' but a acorn drappin'. You fellers is afeerd o' yore shadders; what does the gang mean by sendin' out sech white-livered chaps?" The only sound for a moment was the gurgling of the whiskey as it ran into the jug.
Some white-livered city sneak beggin' your husband's pardon who'd been hangin' around for a year or more. Of course I was stuck when I heard of it. It was this one told me. She's her sister. I could see that she felt bad about it. 'It was a nasty, dirty trick, she said; and I'll be demoralized if I don't think so myself, and said so at the time. But, after all, it turned out a lucky thing for me.
"Well, I think, for my part, such a white-livered, baby-faced chap as you are would have been better off at your mother's apron strings, than coming so far from home to get initiated." No answer, but the pale face and golden head drooped a trifle lower. "Do you know your multiplication-table?" "Yes, sir." "Step up here, and repeat it."
Why, when I stepped on her train jest as I swung her up the aisle, if you believe me, all she said was, 'I hope you didn't hurt yo' foot'; an', bless my boots, ten minutes later, comin' out of church, she whispered in my year, 'You white-livered, hulkin' hound, you, get off my veil! Well, well, it's sad how the ceremony can change a woman's heart."
William Condor daintily knocked off the ash of his cigar faith the tip of his little finger, and said, calmly, "I am sure I don't know." "Nor care," said General Belch. "He thinks you're all a set of white-livered sneaks!" shouted Abel, in a voice harsh and hoarse with liquor. The gentlemen were silent. The leaders wagged their feet nervously; the others looked rather amused.
Van Berg made a gesture of contempt toward the speaker as he turned and said: "You understand me, Stanton; it is not from any lack of loyalty toward you as my friend; but I would not be worthy of your friendship were I false to my sense of duty and honor." "You are both white-livered cowards," roared Sibley.
Meet me face to face! Damn you, be a man! Anything that you can gain by my signature, you can gain by my death. Get the best of me, if you can, in a man's fight. Pah!" He spat contemptuously. "You're a coward, Moran, a white-livered coward! You don't dare fight with me on anything like equal terms. I'll get out of here somehow, and when I do by Heaven, I'll corner you, and I'll make you fight."
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