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'Hark ye, said Burbo, drawing forth his purse, and chinking its contents: 'you hear this music, wife; by Pollux! if you do not break in yon colt with a tight rein, you will hear it no more. 'The girl is tired, said Stratonice, nodding to Calenus; 'she will be more docile when you next want her.
But hark, I have something to ask of you. You must be prudent, say but little, and be extremely polite." Backbarah agreed to all this. The old woman went on, and he followed her. They came to the gate of a great palace, where there was a number of officers and domestics. Some of them would have stopped my brother, but no sooner did the old woman speak to them than they let him pass.
The dog strained and whined against the detaining clasp upon his neck, but the boy held him fast. "Nay, Gelert, we are not going a-hunting," he said. "Hark! is not that the sound of a horn? Are they not even now returning? Over yon fell they come. Let me but hear their hail, and thou and I will be off to meet them. I would they heard the news first from my lips. My mother bid me warn them.
Well, for runners or scouts they may answer, but for hand-to-hand action, they are naught. But where is Sir Christopher?" "He started on a hunt this morning, our larder having run low. Hark!" he added, as suddenly the blast of a bugle was heard echoing through the forest, "that is the sound wherewith he is accustomed to announce his approach, and you will presently see him coming out of the wood."
Off go a thousand masses of burning material, whirling along. Off go the; glowing timbers and rafters, on the wind, by which they are borne in thousands of red meteors across the sky. But hark, again! Room for the whirlwind!
There was silence. "I have sounded that side," said the first voice sharply. "Well, but " "I tell you I have sounded it. There is no time to be lost. My lord " "Hark!" said the second voice. "There is my lord's man " There followed a movement of feet towards the door, as it seemed to the priest. He could hear the first man grumbling to himself, and beating listlessly on the walls somewhere.
Powers, and the rest of you, hark ye: Let no one call Mr. Worth. Let him sleep until the last trump sounds, or until he wakes up of his own accord!" Powers bowed, and said he would see the order observed. Soon after tea was over, the family, fatigued with the day's excitement, retired to bed.
"Time is a rapid ripener," answered Isabel; "but hark! they are lowering the drawbridge for our guests."
She had just encircled her dark auburn locks with a garland of purple heather, studded here and there with white or gold, when, starting upon her little bare but delicately clean pink feet, she laid her hand on her father's lap, and said, "Father, hark! I see two of the good red monks coming!" "Well, child; and wherefore waken me? They are after their own affairs, I trow.
Now all is midnight and silence; then the red, crawling serpent comes out. Lo! his breath; hark! his hiss. Now, spire after spire he winds and he coils; now he soars up erect, crest superb, and forked tongue, the beautiful horror!
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