United States or Iran ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Two brown blurs emerging from the farther end of the wood-vista gradually defined themselves as her step-son and an attendant game-keeper. They grew slowly upon the bluish background, with occasional delays and re-effacements, and she sat still, waiting till they should reach the gate at the end of the drive, where the keeper would turn off to his cottage and Owen continue on to the house.
The unseen laughed again, moved away from his screen, and presently showed himself on the edge of the shelf of rock. And Copplestone found himself staring at a queer figure of a man an under-sized, quaint-looking fellow, clad in dirty velveteens, a once red waistcoat, and leather breeches and gaiters, a sort of compound between a poacher, a game-keeper, and an ostler.
She thanked her cousin occasionally for the kindnesses of which his head gardener and his game-keeper knew much more than he did; and when he said impatiently "Please never thank for that sort of thing!" she dropped the subject as lightly as she had raised it. Secretly she felt that such things, and much more, were her due.
For he adds, a little farther on: "Having no rights of franchise- -no legal protection of life or property disqualified to handle a gun, even as a common soldier or a game-keeper forbidden to acquire the elements of knowledge at home or abroad forbidden even to render to God what conscience dictated as his due what could the Irish be but abject serfs?
"And she will, captain, undoubtedly." "Meanwhile it is an ugly state of affairs." "Yes, rustics everywhere. A monarchy that has Stofflet, the game-keeper of M. de Maulevrier, for a commander has no reason to envy a republic whose minister is Pache, the son of the Duke de Castries' porter.
The spear with which the game-keeper was wounded, being shown to one of the natives, he immediately named the tribe to whom it belonged; which shows that some of them arm their weapons differently from others, and that they are all marked; this, as they have no places to secure them in, effectually prevents their robbing one another.
One feels that there must always be a game-keeper or a policeman just round the corner." She waited for my answer this time, and something in the eagerness of her expression begged me to play up to her lead. "I know exactly what you mean," I said, intensely aware of Anne's proximity. "I was thinking something of the same kind, only this evening, when I went to meet Arthur in the wood.
D'Elbée is a nonentity, Lescure an invalid; Bonchamps is merciful, he is kind, and that implies folly; La Rochejaquelein is a superb sub-lieutenant; Silz is an officer good for the open field, but not suited for a war that needs a man of expedients; Cathelineau is a simple teamster; Stofflet is a crafty game-keeper; Bérard is inefficient; Boulainvillers is absurd; Charette is horrible.
To the best of his belief, the father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, the game-keeper, lost sight of them.
Bright and early he led them into the street, and, after conducting them a proper distance, wheeled them around in front of the sign. To his dismay he discovered that I had added directly under his name the words "Game-keeper to P. T. Barnum." Thereafter Mr. Johnson was known among his friends and acquaintances as "Barnum's gamekeeper." Johnson had his revenge, however.
Word Of The Day