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Yet Umanuh cannot mean the crazy man would pay him to stay here, or that either of us Brazilians would try to buy him. There are no other men with black beards except the German woman-stealer; and of course he cannot be the one." "No?" Pedro asked, softly. "No, certainly. Why? Of what were you thinking?" Pedro's brown eyes twinkled, but he made no answer.
It means that I'm not a mean, cowardly dog; that I don't go to a woman with a lie in my mouth, and sneakingly deceive her! No, sir, I am above such work." "That will do, I can't bear everything, even from you, and I warn you not to go too far!" "Warn away, then; I'm not the man to be skeered by any woman-stealer that ever walked the earth. No, sir, I'm not!
"That guide, Issachar," answered Aziel, "being none other than the lady Elissa, daughter of Sakon, governor of this city, and our host, whom it has been my good fortune to rescue from a woman-stealer yonder in the grove of the goddess Baaltis."
The girl dropped to the ground, drew her blanket over her head, and began to sing her death-song. "So the black-coat and the woman-stealer have come to die before the Indian's god?" sneered the chief. "If it be God's will, we will die defying your god and you," replied Marquette. "Yet we fear not death, and if God willed he could deliver us as easily as he could destroy that worthless image."
If you drive quickly, there is a louis d'or for you." "I will drive as if the devil were after me, sir!" shouted the postilion, and turned to gallop off, when Ebenstreit ordered him to halt, and Leberecht to get up on the box. Then turning to the officers, "Gentlemen," said he, proudly, "you are witnesses to the ill-treatment and insults of this woman-stealer.
The girl dropped to the ground, drew her blanket over her head, and began to sing her death-song. "So the black-coat and the woman-stealer have come to die before the Indian's god?" sneered the chief. "If it be God's will, we will die defying your god and you," replied Marquette. "Yet we fear not death, and if God willed he could deliver us as easily as he could destroy that worthless image."
"I am your enemy, and I want your blood," replied the prince calmly. "Your boldness amuses me. At the same time, if you do not depart at once I will take you in my left hand and crush every bone in your body with my right." "Try, if you dare, woman-stealer," he answered.
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