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"An' it's good for you, stranger," continued the colonel, "that you ain't been long in camp, else some of the boys 'ud put a hole through you for sayin' anything 'gainst Jim; for we all swear by him, we do. He don't carry shootin'-irons, but no feller in camp dares to tackle him; he don't cuss nobody, but ev'rybody does just as he asks 'em to.
"Alas! a pitiful few, and Black Ivo can muster bows and lances by the ten thousand " "Yet doth Sir Benedict withstand them all, my father!" "Yet must he keep ever within Bourne, Beltane. All Pentavalon, save Bourne, lieth 'neath Ivo's iron foot, ruled by his fierce nobles, and they be strong and many, 'gainst whom Sir Benedict is helpless in the field.
There were days, as the wagons dragged their slow lengths along, when the clouds obscured the sky and the wind whistled dismally; days when torrents fell and swelled the streams that must be crossed, and when the mud lay ankle-deep; days when the cattle stampeded, and the round-up meant long, extra hours of heavy work; and, hardest but most needed work of all, the eternal vigil 'gainst an Indian attack.
How well says the poet: He, whom the baggages entrap, Deliverance shall never know, Although a thousand forts he build, Plated with lead; 'gainst such a foe It shall not profit him to build Nor citadels avail, I trow. Women are traitresses to all, Both near and far and high and low.
As most excellent well saith the poet: The folk imagine of us twain an evil thing, I ween, And with their hearts and souls, indeed, they do persist therein. Come, let us justify their thought and free them thus from guilt, This once, 'gainst us; and then will we repent us of our sin.
Evelyn had compared it, for its situation, to Fontainebleau, and particularly extolled "the front of a glorious Abbey Church" and its "brave woods and streams;" and Byron himself has given an elaborate description of it under the name of "Norman Abbey," not overlooking its woods: It stood embosomed in a happy valley Crowned by high woodlands, where the Druid-oak Stood like Caractacus in act to rally His host, with broad arms, 'gainst the thunderstroke
"O foolish youth O youthful fool!" quoth he, "surely thou of all fools art greatest, a youthful, god-like fool! O mighty son of mighty father, how mighty hath thy folly been! O lovely lad that hath attempted deeds impossible, pitting thyself 'gainst Ivo and all his might! Verily, Beltane, thou'rt the loveliest fool that ever man did love "
I am as innocent And free as are the starres from plotting treason Gainst their first mover. Pedro. I was then in France When of your fathers murther the report Did fill all Paris. Man. Such a reverend habit Should not give harbour to so blacke a falshood. Hen. Tis blacke, & of my dying; for 'twas I To cheate my brother of my fathers lands, Layd this most hellish plott.
"They flew over to church there and settled in black trees." "Vicar, maybe, since they went that way." "Mebbe!" hopefully. "Well, well! Perhaps if we gave him a hint he might take some precautions." "Couldn' tek nauthen 'd be any use 'gainst crows. Go'zamin, they knows!" "You're just a confirmed old croaker, Johnnie." "A'n't!" said Johnnie. "Where's our old friend Marielihou?"
Doltaire turned on them at last, and stopped them. The Governor, whose petty vanity was roused, showed a foolish fury at seeing me, and straightway ordered me to the citadel again. "It's useless kicking 'gainst the pricks," said Doltaire to me cynically, as I passed out limping between two soldiers; but I did not reply. In another half hour of most bitter journeying I found myself in my dungeon.
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