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A better inn! and the "Coursing Hound" had been his home as long as he could remember. A better inn! Here Barnabas sighed for the fourth time, and his step was heavier than ever as he went on down the hill. "Heads up, young master, never say die! and wi' the larks and the throstles a-singing away so inspiring too Lord love me!"
"So you sold me out!" he said for a third time. He did not move, but under that lava-like shell of diffidence were volcanic and coursing fires which even he himself could not understand. "Jim, I would have done anything for you, once," went on the unhappy woman facing him. "You could have saved me from him, from myself. But you let the chance slip away. I couldn't go on. I saw where it would end.
A stifling fear came over him as he marked the similarity. "What do you mean are you trying to drive me mad?" he cried in a choking voice. And tearing his hair, he rushed violently towards the door. Kyllikki felt the blood coursing warmly through her veins once more. Olof strode furiously up and down, then came to a standstill before her.
At the sound of his voice the officer quickly started, but spoke in low, measured tone: "Straight ahead, Sam." And the Chinaman led him on. Rayner stood a moment watching them, bitter thoughts coursing through his mind. Mr. Hayne was evidently sufficiently recovered to be up and out for air, and now he was being invited again. This time it was his old comrade Waldron who honored him.
And there they may go on, with their gaugers, and their surveyors, and their supervisors, and their watching officers, and their coursing officers, setting 'em one after another, or one over the head of another, or what way they will we can baffle and laugh at 'em.
It was easy to laud the Decii who calmly sacrificed their lives for the Republic, and many another martyr to patriotism; it was quite another thing to feel the mortal fear of death coursing in one's veins, to reflect that soon perhaps the dogs might be tearing this body which guarded that strange thing one calls self; to reflect that all which soon will be left of one is a bleaching skull, fixed high in some public place, at which the heartless mob would point and gibber, saying, "That is the head of Quintus Livius Drusus, the rebel!"
In our blended admiration and contempt, our minds are diverted from the lasting literary legacy he has left, which, after all, is the chief thing that concerns us. The mortal man is dead, but his works live. The biography of a great man is interesting, but his thoughts go coursing round the world, penetrating even the distant ages, modifying systems and institutions. What a mighty power is law!
The hunt was very successful, and no more voles were seen in that field during the winter. Zoologist, October 1892. Coursing.
"I just can't stand it for another minute, Bunny," she faltered, real tears coursing down her cheeks. "I haven't slept a wink of natural sleep for five days, and yet when night comes it is all I can do to keep my eyes open.
The bear passed, and was coursing along the sand, but as he passed by where John lay, bang went the gun. The bear was struck. "We saw him leap through the smoke to the very spot where we had last seen John. We held our breath; but instead of the cry of agony we expected to hear from John, bang went the gun again John is not yet caught. Our canoe rushed through the water.
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