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None of those home-returning Gaels paid heed to his pause, for they were more Alasdair Macdonald's men than his; Mac-Donald brought them to the lair of the boar, MacDonald glutted their Highland thirst for Campbell blood, Mac-Donald had compelled this raid in spite of the protests of the nobleman who held the King's Commission and seal. For some minutes his lordship stood alone on the pathway.
The warders of the Bucoleon, or what is now Point Serail, the home-returning mariner shipping oars off Scutari, the captain of the helmeted column entering the Golden Gate down by the Seven Towers, the insolent Genoese on the wharves of Galata, had only to look up, and lo! the perch of Isaac.
Over them she placed a stone. She bowed her head. She hid her face. She saw no more the river, trees, or home-returning birds; heard not the rush of water or of wind, nor, even now, the hurry and the shout; that possibly to-morrow would follow the poor wool-comber through the streets of Meaux, and on the third day they would brand him!
At Cacouna, where the boat stopped to take on the horses and carriages of some home-returning sojourners, the pier was a labyrinth of equipages of many sorts and sizes, and a herd of bright-hooded, gayly blanketed horses gave variety to the human crowd that soaked and steamed in the fine, slowly falling rain.
There had been no such gathering at the departure. To spare the feelings of the mistresses the dominating "mammy" of the kitchen had forbidden it. But now that they were back, Glory! Hallelujah! "And had it really," the three home-returning fair ones asked, "seemed so desolate and deadly perilous just for want of them? What! had seemed so even to stalwart Tom? and Scipio? and Habakkuk?
At the same time half a dozen laborers who, home-returning from the fields, had noticed that something unusual was taking place, came hurrying to the scene of disturbance.
The tall spikes, the massive brass padlock, green with weathering, in which it was doubtful if any key would turn, the ancient "Notice to Trespassers," massacred by the stones of home-returning schoolboys these were all that any of us could see at first. The barrier of the deer-park wall was high and unclimbable. The massy iron of the gates looked as if it had not been stirred for centuries.
Ole Bull and the rest are the scouts we have sent on before us, and they return to tell us of the Wonderful Land, and bring mementos and captives from the rich Eldorado of our hopes. That country to which nature points, of which all art is the flaming beacon, and which the weary voyager home-returning from fruitless search tells us is in ourselves not the less far away for that.
All that night David paced the hillside in anxiety and agitation, and saw the sun rise upon a new world a world of freedom, of home-returning, yet a world which, during the past four months, had changed so greatly that it would never seem the same again. The sun was scarce two hours high when Faith and her father mounted the hill to bring him home again.
All that night David paced the hillside in anxiety and agitation, and saw the sun rise upon a new world a world of freedom, of home-returning, yet a world which, during the past four months, had changed so greatly that it would never seem the same again. The sun was scarce two hours high when Faith and her father mounted the hill to bring him home again.
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