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While he must stand aside, impotent, a pillar of the social order secure in its shelter, and see her hounded and driven by the forces of the Law, harried and worried like an unclean thing, forced, as it might be, to resort to stratagems and expedients unthinkable, to preserve her liberty.... It was altogether intolerable. He could not stand it.
I am no beggar's brat my grandmother begged from no one, here nor elsewhere she would have perished sooner on the bare moor. We were harried out and driven from our home a chance which has happed elsewhere, and to others. Avenel Castle, with its lake and its towers, was not at all times able to protect its inhabitants from want and desolation."
There had been a revolution which was a riot; and, plainly incited by a new outbreak of the colonies, the Goth, the Tudor, and the Tuscan had harried the upper reaches to a turmoil attaining its climax in a howl or two from the Spanish Moor.
There were eighty-one first-cabin passengers, one hundred and nineteen in the second cabin, for the two had not been consolidated on the Doraine as was the case with the harried trans-Atlantic liners, and approximately three hundred and fifty in the steerage. The first and second cabin lists represented many races, South Americans predominating.
A dozen men were working the full corps of gardeners without doubt and a single glance sufficed to show me that such of the surface as had not been upturned by their spades had been harried by their footsteps. Useless now to promulgate my carefully formed theory, with any hope of proof to substantiate it.
"She is right," averred Pundita. "A woman can do more at this moment than a hundred men. I will go, Mem-sahib; and, more, I will bring him back." "But if he should hold you as a hostage?" suggested the harried Ahmed. "What then?" "What will be will be," answered Pundita with oriental philosophy.
She turned the appeal of her face and saw a sudden pitiful consideration in Hilda's, and as if it called them forth two tears sprang to her eyes and fell, as she lowered her delicate head upon her lap. "Dear thing! I didn't indeed. If I meant anything it was that I'm overstrung. I've been horribly harried lately." She possessed herself of one of Alicia's hands and stroked it.
The Muslim, with numbers that increased very slowly, were harried afresh by the Kureisch as soon as Mahomet had withdrawn his concessions, and most of them were forced at length to return to Abyssinia.
Having never seen it harried by fierce winds, pounding the beaches with curling waves, he could not visualize it as other than it was now, glassy smooth, languid, inviting. Over the last twenty miles of the river his guides had strained a point now and then, just to see their passenger gasp.
His three days' fame in local papers cost him dear. Immediately on getting out of prison, I heard not without a savage satisfaction that Imboden's horsemen had harried his homestead thoroughly in their last raid; Dolley only saving his life by "running like a hare."
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