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I was the more hardy in my reply, because I saw that coolness and hardihood had an effect upon the robbers. It is true, as I finished speaking the captain laid his hand upon his stiletto, but he restrained himself, and snatching the letter, folded it, and ordered me, in a peremptory tone, to address it to the prince.
I was there first and found Franz, the missing guest, his arms smeared with blood, his ragged jacket covered with hair of some sort and in his hand a bloody stiletto. He rushed past me into the hut, got to the table and exclaimed: "Gee whiz! der ain't a scrap left!" "Look here, Franz," I said, "I want to know what you've been up to?" "Ye do, hey? Ye look skeered, too, don't yer hey?"
She appeared to be well meaning and kind hearted, as Roman matrons generally are; except when a fit of passion incites them to shower horrible curses on an obnoxious individual, or perhaps to stab him with the steel stiletto that serves them for a hairpin.
Rollo, however, poor brave old fellow, made one dash at the ruffian as he threatened dad; and, seizing him by the throat, dashed him to the ground. Poor fellow, the next moment he had a stiletto jammed into him, which made him sink down bleeding, with a faint howl, to which Bob and I responded with a cry, as if we felt the blow ourselves!
Meanwhile you cannot remain here, as you propose." "Do you mean to throw me into the street?" she asked, passionately. "Alive or dead, I stay here until the compact is made." "You need have no fear of me; I am not going to kill you." "Fear! Of you! Do not flatter yourself, my friend!" With an insulting laugh she plucked a thin stiletto from under her cloak, and brandished it before him.
But the pin prick of pain as the skin broke was too sharp a prophecy of anguish for the petted child who knew herself physically a coward. She gave a cry, dropped the stiletto as if the handle had burnt her, and, stumbling against the girl who tried to hold her up, fell in a limp heap on the floor.
His fingers felt around his waist, then he raised his hand and uttered: 'I do swear that ne with sword ne stiletto, ne with staves nor with clubs, ne with any quarrels nor violence so never will I seek thy goodly cousin's life. He shook his head slowly at her. 'All the men ye have known have prayed ye to be rid of him, he said; 'ye will live to rue.
The reward of fidelity, as in poor Escovedo's case, was oftener the stiletto. Was it astonishing that murder was more common than fidelity? With the subsequent career of Antonio Perez his famous process, his banishment, his intrigues, his innuendos, his long exile, and his miserable death, this history has no concern. We return from our brief digression.
"I should be even more precise," said Denzil slowly. "I should say a stiletto an Italian stiletto." "A stiletto!" gasped Mrs. Vrain, whose delicate pink colour had faded to a chalky white. "Oh! oh! I I " and she fainted forthwith. Mrs. Vrain's fainting fit was of no great duration, and she shortly recovered her senses, but not her sprightliness.
You can't help seeing unless you close your eyes. The world presses in upon you from every side. It is insistent. Even now the stars outside there are demanding recognition." He drew back the crimson curtains draping the big French windows, which opened upon a balcony. The silver stiletto rays darted a greeting to him. He swung open the windows. "Come out with me and see my friends," he said.
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