 | Frederick Drimmer - 1985 - 388 էջ
...and he might as well strike where I was. He replied with coolness that my suspicions were just and he meant to pay me in this manner for my goods. At...produced a knife and held me in a position to receive the blow. Both this and what followed were the affair of a moment. By some effort too sudden to be remembered... | |
 | R.G. Moyles - 1994 - 346 էջ
...distance of fifty yards above the fort. Here, finding that I was approaching the bushes and sand-hills, I determined to proceed no further but told the Indian that I believed he meant to murder me and that, if so, he might as well strike where I was as at any greater distance. He replied, with coolness,... | |
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I believed he meant to murder me, and that if so he might as well strike where I was as at any greater distance. He replied, with coolness, that my suspicions were just, and that he meant to pay me in this manner for my goods. At the same time he produced... 
