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A coiled piece of cloth, dark and menacing, ran up the mainmast of the schooner, reached the top, and then burst out, streaming at full length in the strong wind, dark as death and heavy with threat. Robert looked up and shuddered violently. Over the schooner floated the black flag, exultant and merciless. The tarpaulin was lifted and the long bronze gun in the stern was uncovered.
Da-ud Khan, eventually wearying of the unsuccessful siege, named the price that would buy him off; and the Council, fearing the wrath of the Directors at the loss of their trade, were glad to come to terms. The Company's Minute on the occasion is a brief but exultant record: 'The siege is raised! In 1746 there was a siege of a more serious sort.
But, indeed, his protest was premature. The anger of the crowd dwindled into sullen clamours. "The king laughs at us! 'Tis too much to ask." A faint, exultant smile flickered over the king's face as he asked: "Now, friends, where is your idol's supplement? Who will be his lieutenant, who will be heir to his heritage of a cross bar and a rope? You are not so brisk as you were.
The sternness fell away from him. He looked at her and sighed. Then, with bowed head, and hands clasped behind him, he moved away from me a little. "Do not let us judge rashly," he said. "Perhaps Agostino received some provocation. Let us hear..." "O, you shall hear," she promised tearfully, exultant to prove him wrong. "You shall hear a yet worse abomination that was the cause of it."
Given a modicum of leisure for painstaking search among the pages and a lessening of tensity in the state of the popular excitement, I should undoubtedly have succeeded in finding that which I sought; but such was destined not to be. Of a sudden a chorus of exultant shrieks, louder than any of the cries that until then had arisen, caused all and sundry to face a spot near the door.
It always seemed to me that here was a sudden, harsh suspension of nature's fundamental law, the human heart arrested in its functions, ceasing to throb, and yet alive. The fields beyond are fresh and green, and bright with flowers. The sun of summer, rising exultant, greets them with rejoicing; and evening shadows, falling soft among the dewy petals, linger to kiss them good-night.
And we chuckled like a victim of persecution whose persecutor had been overtaken there would be no mail carrier in the morning. No mail to be taken care of. Exultant, we tried to figure how many days Dave would be blockaded and we would be spared that morning penance of handing the mail sack out from the icy shack.
How different were Daddy's emotions! It was amusing to behold him bolstered up in bed, exultant to the highest degree. His old wrinkled face fairly shone with delight, and he frequently ejaculated as he watched the progress of the flames, "Thank the Lord God Almighty, for that dispensation!" As the light began to die away, he turned to Little Wolf and whispered confidentially.
My Gibbon, for example, my well-bound eight-volume Milman edition, which I have read and read and read again for more than thirty years never do I open it but the scent of the noble page restores to me all the exultant happiness of that moment when I received it as a prize.
He returned the following day, and crossed again within a few hours. In five days the affair was finished, except for the dénouement. Peter ascended in the lift to Mr. Heseltine-Wrigge's office the following Thursday, calm and unruffled as usual, but nevertheless a little exultant. It was barely half an hour ago since he had become finally prepared for this interview.
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