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Tall cantered along the bridle-path through Sixteen Acres, Sheeplands, Middle Field, The Flats, Cappel's Piece, shrank almost to a point, crossed the bridge, and ascended from the valley through Springmead and Whitepits on the other side.
He wasn't carrying it in the usual way, but had his hand almost level with his shoulder so that the barrel pointed in my direction. I noticed, too, that he was playing with the trigger. It seemed likely that it might suit his purposes rather well if I was accidentally killed. But each time I cantered up close to him, the barrel returned to its natural position.
"In or out, Betty and I have seen 'em gush all right," cried Bob, as they cantered on together along a well-defined bridle-path. "Say! I'm telling you something," exploded Teddy Tucker, who did not purpose to have his tale lost sight of. "Something about Timothy Derby." "Oh, dear me, yes!" exclaimed Bobby. "Do tell it and get it over, Ted."
As it happened, her friend had been telling her about Hobart, and she was interested in him from the first. For she was of that minority which lives not by bread alone, and she felt a glow of pride in the man who could do what the Sun had given this man credit for editorially. They talked at haphazard for a few minutes before the young women cantered away.
Here, reckon yourself, my man, and content you with these. He threw a fistful of gold besants on the flags, turned his horse sharply and cantered out of the yard. 'Colossal man! gasped the innkeeper. 'King or devil, but no merchant under the sun. So the news spread abroad, and Gunther puffed his cheeks over it.
She really had the heroical aspect in a grandiose-grotesque, fitted to some lines of Ariosto. Her head wore a close hood, disclosing a fringe of grey locks, owlish to see about features hooked for action. 'Ah, you! there you are: good I'll join you in three minutes, she sang out to him, and cantered to the ridge.
Charming ladies on horseback cantered past. "Let them go," he thought. Yesterday, the sight of one would have set him dreaming on grand alliances. When you can afford to be a bachelor, the case is otherwise. Presently, who should ride by but Mrs. Lovell!
Ripley," he read out, "Mrs. Ripley of Burley Wood." "And where is Burley Wood?" asked Sir Charles. "It is a village, Sir, six miles from Leamington," replied the bookseller, and he gave some rough directions as to the road. Sir Charles mounted his horse and cantered down the Parade.
He and Betty seemed to form a mutual admiration society on the instant, for with a gentle whinny he cantered up to the girl and began nosing inquisitively in her pocket in search of sugar. Luckily Betty had brought some with her, and she fed a couple of lumps to the beautiful animal, thereby definitely sealing their pact of friendship.
Every man in France is envying the young dragoon officer, Lieutenant Bruyant, who has been given the first Cross of the Legion of Honor in the war. The lieutenant with six men was scouting near the frontier, when suddenly he saw a number of horsemen moving a good way off, and made them out to be a patrol of twenty-seven Uhlans. Shots were exchanged and a German fell. Then the Uhlans cantered away.
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