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She had let it go what could be more natural in a slight agitation? and but this seemed less natural in a gold-handled whip which had been left altogether to itself it had gone with some force over the immediate shrubs, and had lodged itself in the branches of an azalea half-way down the knoll.
They were not ten feet from him, and swords flashed before his eyes, but still he did not stir a hair's breadth. In response to a cry the horses stopped in full career, not more than three feet from him. Reaching out he could have stroked the flaming nostril of the stallion nearest him. Pango Dooni took from his side a short gold-handled sword and handed it to him.
Also he left behind him his gold-handled umbrella, taking away with him instead an old alpaca thing Clodd kept in reserve for exceptionally dirty weather. Peter pronounced the essay usable. "He has a style," said Peter; "he writes with distinction. Make an appointment for me with him." Clodd, on missing his umbrella, was indignant. "What's the good of this thing to me?" commented Clodd.
He was so unconscious of this that, on the twelfth anniversary of her incarceration beneath the stock-balcony, he commissioned his mother to shop her a crown of thorns in the form of a gold-handled umbrella with a bachelor-girl flash-light attachment. There are men like that, to whom life is not only a theosophy of one God, but of one women who is sufficient thereof.
On his writing-table was his bag, grown so long that the Prince could not help remarking it. He went to it, opened it, and what do you think he found in it? A splendid long, gold-handled, red-velvet-scabbarded, cut-and-thrust sword, and on the sheath was embroidered 'ROSALBA FOR EVER!
Only a little gold-handled poignard with a lady's finger ring set upon the point of the hilt was at his side, and he stood resting easily his hand upon it as he talked, drawing it an inch from its sheath and snicking it back again nonchalantly, with a sound like the clicking of a well-oiled lock.
Gold and silver pipes, and canes, dazzled the eye in every direction. Wolves' and rams' heads, as large as life, cast in gold, were suspended from their gold-handled swords, which were held around them in great numbers; the blades were shaped like round bills, and rusted in blood; the sheaths were of leopard skin, or the shell of a fish like shagreen.
The girl laughed again, loudly and with evident bravado, before she threw the cloak back and showed what she had evidently been holding in her hand from the first, a sharp-pointed, gold-handled paper-cutter. "It was lying there and I picked it up. I don't see any harm in that." "You probably meant none.
"He waves to us; there is something behind this," said Estein. "Drunk," muttered Helgi. "I wager my gold-handled sword he is drunk. They have ale enough on board to float the ship." "A sail!" Estein exclaimed, pointing to a promontory to seaward round which the low black hull and coloured sail of a warship were just appearing. "Ay, and another!" said Ulf. "Three-four-seven-eight!" Helgi cried.
They inspected the martial furnishing of the room: the drum, the pair of rifles, the pistols, in the corner, the sabres crossed on the wall, the gold-handled sword that lay upon the table, and the picture of Napoleon on a white horse against the wall.
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