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Now the princess went to sleep again, and woke refreshed; but all day long the memory of the dream and of him whom she saw in it bided with her, until it was time for her to go to the great hall for the feast of the Witan. Now it happened that on this night I must be one of the two housecarls who should stand, torch in hand, behind the king.
That death seemed to take the last doubt of our peace from us; but now Sighard would no more go back to his lands. "I was Ethelbert's thane and his father's; I will not hold from Offa. Let me come back with you now until I know what I can do." So when our wedding was over he crossed with us to Wessex, and there for a time he bided.
"Therefore," said he, "I am in good company, and will surely go." Whereupon Tatwine rose up and went out, saying that he should go to the abbey and seek protection for the bishop, and men say he bided there almost night and day, praying until all was past. Certainly I saw him no more in his accustomed places, save at mass.
His ship and his fellow-voyagers waited at Pylos but for a while longer Telemachus bided in Sparta, for he would fain hear from Menelaus and from Helen the tale of Troy.
But he bided his time; and he would not have been human if he had not now taken secret satisfaction, seeing his father's anxiety daily increase as the August sun grew hotter and hotter, and the grain rattled in the husks waiting to be reaped, while they two, straining their arms to the utmost, and in long days' work, seemed to produce small impression on the great fields.
So Carey rode often to town and Tannis bided her time, and plotted futile schemes of revenge, and Lazarre Merimee scowled and got drunk and life went on at the Flats as usual, until the last week in October, when a big wind and rainstorm swept over the northland. It was a bad night. The wires were down between the Flats and Prince Albert and all communication with the outside world was cut off.
But I have watched and waited, and bided my time as long as I intend to, and I am too old to work as I have done." "It seems to me a queer thing you have hid it so long, so many years, when you might have turned it into gold. The old General ought to pay well for the paper. Let's see it."
Some, indeed, refused to concede to him the benefit of worthy motives. He had, as they believed and declared, been incurably wounded in his pride, and disappointed in his ambition, when Mr. Lincoln, then a comparatively unknown man, was preferred to him by the Republican party as a candidate for the Presidency in 1860. He had, as they believed, bided his time for revenge.
And as he went down backward, clutching at nothing, God looked again out of the skylights of heaven, and showed me the face of the devil, even as Michael saw it when he hurled him shrieking into the nether pit. "Then I went back and took in my arms my one ewe lamb. But by that very circumstance I knew Otho had not revealed how his accident had befallen. Yet he but bided his time.
Kaba Rega carried off the stool to the south, or rather the west, of Victoria Nyanza, and bided his time, while Mtesa wrote a half-defiant and half-entreating letter to Gordon, asking him to spare Unyoro.
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