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Allen's ruin, or saving him from it, he believed that Edith would be his as truly as the bonds and certificates of stock that he often counted and gloated over. Even before Mr. Allen entered on what he called his great and final operation for the present, Mr.
This particular morning, however, Pierre's distemper had crystallized into a great contempt for his companion. Of all trials, the most detestable is to hit the trail with half a man, a pale, anemic weakling like this stranger. Though modest in the extent of his learning, Pierre gloated in a freedom of speech, the which no man dared deny him.
He was the finest buck I had ever seen and I gloated over his body as a miser handles his gold. And gold, shining in the sunlight, was never more beautiful than his spotless summer coat. Right where he lay upon the hillside, amid a veritable garden of bluebells, daisies, and yellow roses, was the setting for the group we wished to prepare in the American Museum of Natural History.
Was this indeed the night over which his imagination had gloated for months? Was it indeed possible that this was the very night following the day Thursday for which he had engaged himself in accordance with the letter that he still carried in his pocket? How on earth did it come that he was sitting with his arm over the bulwarks of a yacht instead of Oh, the thing was a miracle a miracle!
The two men rode down the hoof-scored sand to the quarter post, Skeeter dancing sidewise at the prospect of a race, Smoky now and then tentatively against Bud's steady pressure of the bit. "He's not limping now," Bud gloated as they rode. But Jeff only laughed tolerantly and made no reply. Dave Truman started them with a pistol shot, and the two horses darted away, Smoky half a jump in the lead.
At six o'clock the family party went in to dinner. A place was laid for Hector. "Leave it so," said the Baroness to Mariette, "monsieur sometimes comes in late." "Oh, my father will certainly come," said Victorin to his mother. "He promised me he would when we parted at the Chamber." Lisbeth, like a spider in the middle of its net, gloated over all these countenances.
To be sure, the proof would be in the pan that night, browned in savory cornmeal after the fashion of the New Brunswick backwoods. But the Babe had in him the makings of a true sportsman, and for him a trout had just one brief moment of unmatchable perfection the moment when it was taken off the hook and held up to be gloated over or coveted.
He gloated over the helpless people who, looking to him for justice, were merely the victims of his abhorrent cruelty. He loved the look of sick surprise in their starting eyes. He got a filthy joy out of seeing a man turn pale. He rubbed his hands in glee when a woman swooned. He " "I can't stand that can't stand it!" Sloane protested, hands over his eyes.
One after another the victims were thrown across the bowl and their life-blood gushed into it as the cruel swords descended, while the King gloated over the sight with an expression of pleasure upon his oily sinister face, until the heap of headless trunks grew large, and the number sacrificed must have been over a hundred.
We spoke of all sorts of things, and in our silence I gloated on the autumn holiday promised me by Judge Henry. His last letter had said that an outfit would be starting for his ranch from Billings on the seventh, and he would have a horse for me. This was the fifth.
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