Don't trouble us, now; and be off, as soon as you can, out of harm's way.

Your bones will be all the better for it; and I declare I don't like to hurt such a fine-looking chap if I can possibly avoid it.
Now take a friend's advice; 'twill be all the better for you, I tell you." The speaker evidently meant well, so far as it was possible for one to mean well who was commissioned to do, and was, in fact, doing ill.

The Georgian, however, only the more indignant at the impertinence of the address, took the following notice of it, uttered in the same breath with an imperative command to his own men to hasten their advance:-- "Disperse yourselves, scoundrels, and throw down your arms!--on the instant disperse! Lift a hand, or pull a trigger upon us, and every man shall dangle upon the branches of the first tree!" As he spoke, leading the way, he drove his rowels into the sides of his animal; and, followed by his troop, bounded fearlessly up the gorge..