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The Spaniard caught the sneer, and a scowl gathered on his coarse face; but he checked it suddenly and began in smooth tones to address us. Old Captain Baulk had raised himself to a sitting posture, and the seamen all held themselves in attitudes of strained attention. "What says he?" I asked, in a whisper, of my dear love, when the friar had ceased and turned away from us.
He was an adept at 'tree, 'dodge, and 'squat, he could play 'log-lump, with 'wind' and 'baulk' with 'back-track' so well that he scarcely needed any other tricks.
"I can spare thee the trouble," the Doctor said. "In case of thy death before the three years are out, who is to pay the note? Half the money falls to me, and half to thy uncle Richard. Thy aunt Martha was wise. It truly seems as if she had foreseen just what has happened, and meant to baulk thy present rashness.
Louder, louder chant the lay, Waken, lords and ladies gay; Tell them youth, and mirth, and glee Run a course as well as we; Time, stern huntsman! who can baulk, Stanch as hound and fleet as hawk? Think of this and rise with day, Gentle lords and ladies gay.
"Unless thou canst hold that ill-omened tongue of thine, there presently will be another bloody fact between thy teeth!" A sudden silence fell. 'Twas broken finally by my dear love, whose generous nature soon repented of a harshly spoken word. "I was over-hasty, my good Baulk; but I would not for the world have Mistress Tudor hear aught of those horrors.
But does any one seriously suppose that the knightly class of the Iliad, the chariot-driving gentlemen, held no more land legally or by permitted custom than the two Homeric swains who vituperate each other across a baulk about the right to a few feet of a strip of a runrig field?
That night as Dermot and Barclay went upstairs together the police officer said: "I wonder if they'll dare to try anything against you tonight, Major. I should say they'd give you a miss in baulk, for they must believe you invulnerable. Still, I'm going with you to your room to see." When they reached it and threw open the door a figure half rose from the floor.
Myself, I was slower of foot; and, besides, there was some that offered me a fight on the road, and I was not wishful to baulk them; and moreover, the fewer we left clamouring behind, the fewer there would be to speed our going with their stones. Still I came to the beach in good order, and laid hands on the flimsy boat and tipped her dry.
In the majority of the spectators, merriment was excited; but in my friend, wound up by the expectation of the coming leap to a state of great nervous tension, the effect of the baulk was to produce indignation.
It was matter of common knowledge throughout the Western country that some agents who were receiving a salary of $1500.00 a year retired with fortunes after a few years in office, and even the most unsuspecting and docile Indian would baulk at that after a while. Colonel McLeod, a very cautious man, in a report to the Hon.
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