If he had made out anything, he would have shown it to-night; but, saving a little stiffness, which belongs to all these young men from Carolina, I saw nothing in his manner that looked at all out of the way." "Well, Munro, you are bent on having the thing as you please.

You will find, when too late, that your counsel will end in having us all in a hobble." "Pshaw! you are growing old and timid since this adventure.

You begin to doubt your own powers of defence.

You find your arguments failing; and you fear that, when the time comes, you will not plead with your old spirit, though for the extrication of your own instead of the neck of your neighbor." "Perhaps so--but, if there be no reason for apprehension, there is something due to me in the way of revenge.

Is the fellow to hurl me down, and trench my cheek in this manner, and escape without hurt ?" The eyes of the speaker glared with a deadly fury, as he indicated in this sentence another motive for his persevering hostility to Colleton--an hostility for which, as subsequent passages will show, he had even a better reason than the unpleasing wound in his face; which, nevertheless, was in itself, strange as it may appear, a considerable eyesore to its proprietor.