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Updated: August 28, 2024
And that 'pointment of Ben McConnell postmaster of Liberty has hurt Thorne and the Republican party a heap all over the deestric'. Ben McConnell never voted the Republican ticket but twicst in his life. Up to two years ago he was a red-hot Democrat, and no one down in their hearts, Republican or Democrat, has any use for a turncoat.
The old man did not mean to say what was untrue, you may be sure; but he had rashly picked up gossip, as his prejudice suggested, and now rashly launched it on the public with the sanction of his name. 'The Liberal candidate, he concluded, 'is thus a public turncoat. Is that the sort of man we want? He has been given the lie, and has swallowed the insult. Is that the sort of man we want?
We must be off!" Again the soldiers cheered. "Well, there's that turncoat of a Stanhope with his fine airs. I'd rather see him shot next than any one else!" "Thank you, Ben," said I. "Come over here, Ramsay," orders Radisson. "That's two. Go on! Five more!" The soldiers fell to laughing and Ben to pulling at his mustache. "That money-bag of a La Chesnaye next," mutters Ben.
For, with the sudden illumination, she forgot for a moment the present and DesCaut; for it was the turncoat awaked from a drunken sleep apart, who pushed swiftly forward, took the moment's advantage of her hesitation, and pinioned her arms to her sides. She might still have had a chance, for she was as strong as he, but that he raised his voice in a call for help.
The Maccabee, among the fighting-men on the wall, saw his approach and discreetly stepped behind a soldier that he might not be singled out as a familiar toward which the approaching mediator would logically direct his appeal. He had no desire to be addressed by his name before this precarious mob already mad with rage at a turncoat.
Amid this general disloyalty, the King of Wurtemberg presented an honourable exception, for as I have said, he had informed Napoleon that circumstances forced him to renounce his friendship; but even after he had taken this final step, he ordered his troops not to attack the French without giving them ten days warning, and although he was now an enemy of France, he dismissed from his army the general and several officers who had handed over their troops to the Russians at the battle of Leipzig, and withdrew all their decorations from the turncoat regiments.
Her father had been a pilgrim himself at one time; but he had now for a long time been known in the town as a turncoat and a temporary, and all his children had unhappily taken after their father in that.
'For God's sake, Star, he said, always called me Star, 'don't go back on me, but you know family affairs another woman, beautiful creature, etc., etc., yes, sir, perfectly common, but a blank mistake. When a man once funks his own name he'll turn tail on anything. Sorry for this man, Friezecoat, or Turncoat, or whatever's his d d name; but it's so."
'Rats is best, and a good riddance. 'Five to ten shillings a couple, repeated Justin. 'I have only got two, if that. What are you good for, Archie? 'Precious little, the younger boy replied. 'And I don't know that I care about 'You are a muff, said Justin crossly, 'a muff and a turncoat. You were hotter upon ferreting than I was.
The Candahar chiefs had meditated a night attack on his raw troops, but Macnaghten's intrigues and bribes had wrought defection in their camp; and while Kohun-dil-Khan and his brothers were in flight to Girishk on the Helmund, the infamous Hadji Khan Kakur led the venal herd of turncoat sycophants to the feet of the claimant who came backed by the British gold, which Macnaghten was scattering abroad with lavish hand.
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