I would set my heel upon his head and grind it into the earth as I would the head of a venomous reptile." "Who told you ?" "I overheard some o' their sweet talk as they rode by here not two hours ago.

He robbed me of her that he might snatch the prize himself; I saw his game at the time.

But he shall never get her," he concluded, grinding his teeth with rage.
"Pray, how do you propose to prevent it ?" "I'll call him out." Arthur's laugh rang out mockingly upon the still night air.

"Southern gentlemen accept a challenge only from gentlemen; and as for Travilla, besides being a dead shot, he's too pious to fight a duel, even with his own class." "He'll meet me in fair fight, or I'll shoot him down, like a dog, in his tracks." The words, spoken in low tone, of concentrated fury, were accompanied with a volley of horrible oaths.
"You'd better not try it!" said Arthur; "you'd be lynched and hung on the nearest tree within an hour." "They'd have to catch me first." "And they would, they'd set their bloodhounds on your track, and there'd be no escape.

As to the lady having been your fiancee--she never was; she would not engage herself without my brother's consent, which you were not able to obtain.