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And as she spoke she emerged from a recess in the room, a kind of dark alcove, where she had been amusing herself with what I took to be some sort of puzzle, but which I found afterwards to be the bit and curb-chain of her pony's bridle which she was polishing up to her own bright mind, because the stable-boy had not pleased her in the matter, and she wanted both to get them brilliant and to shame the lad for the future.
Sam, the tall ostler, was polishing a curb-chain wit sand; the lantern at his feet letting up spouts of candle-light through the holes with which its conical roof was peppered. 'Hey, miss, said he jocularly, 'you won't look at me any more, now you have gentry at the castle. Her cheeks burned with anger. 'That's my lord's chay, the man continued, nodding at the chaise, 'Lord Windermoor's.
She wished her skirts were long enough to be held up languidly like the lady walking in front: the hand holding up the skirt had a golden curb-chain on the wrist which drooped down to the neatly gloved hand, and between each link of the chain was set a blue turquoise, and upon this jewel the sun danced splendidly.
Forms and methods might take care of themselves, so the thing itself was begotten. Yet that could only be, if the ties sought to be woven were elastic, free and freedom-giving. He wanted a golden chain, binding men to men the Anglo-Saxon world over, but a curb-chain nowhere.
At the meet I examined my mount closely while the man was lengthening my stirrup. Havoc, as he was called, was a dark chestnut, 16.1, with a coat like the back of a violin and a spiteful little head. He had an enormous bit on; and I was glad to see a leather strap under the curb-chain. When I was mounted, Peter kept close to my side and said: "You're on a topper!
This the bullock-drivers told me when they came there," said Adam. "She rolled. The saddle was cut, and the curb-chain was lost." "See!" said Adam, tugging a curb-chain from his pocket. "That woman in the shop gave it to me for a love-gift. Beshakl said it was not his when I showed it. But I knew."
'Your curb-chain is loose, godmother, said the girl, who now, pale as death and trembling all over, advanced to fasten the link. 'I declare to the Lord, he's asleep! said Miss Betty, as the wearied head of her page dropped heavily on her shoulder. 'Take the curb off, dear, or I may lose it. Put it in your pocket for me, Kate; that is, if you wear a pocket. 'Of course I do, godmother.
What is in the Brahmin's books that is in the Brahmin's heart. Neither you nor I knew there was so much evil in the world. Hindu Proverb. This began in a practical joke; but it has gone far enough now, and is getting serious. Platte, the Subaltern, being poor, had a Waterbury watch and a plain leather guard. The Colonel had a Waterbury watch also, and for guard, the lip-strap of a curb-chain.
"Then they in the grog-shop, knowing that I was the servant of the Presence, said that unless I drank and spent money they would tell." "A lie. A lie," said Strickland. "Son of an owl, speak truth now at least." "Then I was afraid because I had lost the curb-chain, so I cut the saddle across and about." "She did not roll, then?" said Strickland, bewildered and very angry.
It consisted of thin, hard, hollow bones, linked together, somewhat resembling the curb-chain of a bridle, and rattling at the slightest motion. Uncle John showed him how to ascertain the age of the reptile. The extreme end, called the button, is all it has until three years old; after that age a link is added every year.
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