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 (with curling lip). So, Pan, this is all your doing!

. Ay, Jas Hook, it is all my doing.

. Proud and insolent youth, prepare to meet thy doom.

. Dark and sinister man, have at thee.

(Some say that he had to ask whether the word was sinister or canister.

or ''this time! They fall to without another word. is a rare swordsman, and parries with dazzling rapidity, sometimes before the other can make his stroke. , if not quite so nimble in wrist play, has the advantage of a yard or two in reach, but though they close he cannot give the quietus with his claw, which seems to find nothing to tear at. He does not, especially in the most heated moments, quite see , who to his eyes, now blurred or opened clearly for the first time, is less like a boy than a mote of dust dancing in the sun. By some impalpable stroke sword is whipped from his grasp, and when he stoops to raise it a little''