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The drawbridge clanked down once more, Brian and Cathbarr mounted and rode out to where the thirty waited grimly, and after them came the forty men from the garrison. Cathbarr, who trusted the Dark Master little, set his ten axmen in the van, followed with Brian, and the sixty followed them into the night. "I think we came out of that well, brother," said the giant softly. "Where do we ride?"
"He is a good divine that follows his own instructions," he would say grimly, when he compelled himself to make fresh efforts. Anything was better than brooding, he thought. And in the evenings he would resist the temptation to yield to his weariness and to take possession of his easy-chair.
Well, I don't see but we must trust in the Lord, there don't seem to be much else to trust to," said the spinster, as she drew her head in grimly.
"Yes," Max acknowledged grimly. "It was a pity. But his reason for coming was urgent. And, after all, it made little difference. It has only hastened by a few weeks the end that was bound to come." "You think that he will die?" "Yes." Max spoke briefly. His tone was one of indifference. The Frenchman looked at him curiously. "And what was his reason for coming?"
When it was plain that the mule had stopped permanently, Casey slid off William's back and lay down without knowing or caring much whether he would ever get up again. He said he wasn't hungry much; but his mouth was too full of tongue, he added grimly. He lay and watched through half-closed, staring eyes the light that mocked him so.
The burglar might have escaped, but unexpectedly there was a crash and a cry. He had fallen over a chair and before he could rise Tarling was on him and had flung him back. He leapt to the door, it was open. He banged it close and turned the key. "Now, let's have a look at you," said Tarling grimly and switched on the light.
The officious friend joined the family too, and he held up his hands in horror when he heard of it. Didn't the family know? Oh, yes, Bob was himself a fine fellow; but he was Whiskey Weston! "Of course, no good woman wants to be Mrs. Whiskey Weston," said my friend grimly. "Still, I think she did care a bit for me; but it was all up.
The four flashes of the Outer Gabbard winked him good-bye away on the starboard, and at eleven o'clock the next night far out in the North Sea he saw the little city of lights swinging on the Dogger. The Willing Mind's boat came aboard the next morning and Captain Weeks with it, who smiled grimly while Duncan explained how he had learnt that the smack was shorthanded.
"People are only too willing to be encouraged in their vanities. I don't think, Miriam, that you were really very good for a person's character." "I was not very good for my own," Miriam went on, grimly. "I retrograded. I can see it now. In playing on the follies and faults of others, I grew less careful less critical myself. Then the family lost its money.
"Up, then, with the fiery signal, and let it tell, from cliff to cliff, from town to town, that Edward the Plantagenet, once returned to England, leaves it but for the grave!" The master bowed, and smiled grimly.
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