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Dimly, as one in a dream, she could hear the fury of the Cavaliers find words. "You black Jack, I will clip your ears," Rufus promised. "Blood him. Blood him," bawled Fawley. "Slit his nose," Radlett suggested. "Duck him in the horse-pond," suggested Bardon. "Set him in the stocks," Ingrow advised.
The speech of this fantastic figure was received with an explosion of jeers and laughter. Some cried, "'Tis another prince in disguise!" "'Ware thy tongue, friend: belike he is dangerous!" "Marry, he looketh it mark his eye!" "Pluck the lad from him to the horse-pond wi' the cub!"
The pleasure grounds attached to the chateau, very exactly correspond with its style: the chateau is usually built in the worst possible site of the whole estate. It generally stands in some meadow or lawn, and precisely in that part of it which is the natural drain of the whole, and where, if there were no house, there would necessarily be an horse-pond.
Could he send a page or a serving-maid to her? though indeed there were none now he could trust, for Ulrich had dismissed all her good friends. And if he came himself to her room, evil might be spoken of it." "He had arranged all that already. There was the bear, as she remembered, chained upon the little island in the horse-pond, just under her window.
The delicate chiselling of the features was worn somewhat by handling and rough usage, but even so the evil beauty of the face was plain and manifest, the wanton languor of the long eyes, the mocking cruelty of the smiling mouth. The longer I viewed it, the more manifest became the nameless evil of the thing, so that I was greatly minded to whirl it into the horse-pond and be done with it.
They would have placed him at once as a person impossible and altogether out of their class. They would have told a lackey to kick this preposterous creation into the horse-pond. But since Paddy was a foreigner he was possessed of some curious license, and his grotesque ways could be explained fully in the simple phrase, "'Tis a foreigner."
When I was a boy, I used to sit every day on the shoulders of Hercules: what became of him I have never been able to ascertain. Neptune has been lying these seven years in the dust-hole; Atlas had his head knocked off to fit him for propping a shed; and only the day before yesterday we fished Bacchus out of the horse-pond."
The gossips of the place congregated round the inn door, and commented on the conduct of the pretended seaman in no measured terms at the same time expressing a wish that they only had him there, and they would let him smell the peculiar odour of their horse-pond.
To the horse-pond, to the horse-pond! Where be the dogs? Ho, there, Lion! ho, Fangs!" Then followed such a thing as England had never seen before the sacred person of the heir to the throne rudely buffeted by plebeian hands, and set upon and torn by dogs. As night drew to a close that day, the prince found himself far down in the close-built portion of the city.
"Yes, but, my dear child, what place are they to haunt? The ruin is sacred to your uncle's spirit. Your aunt monopolizes the park, and, I must be allowed to state, not unfrequently trespasses upon the grounds of others. The horse-pond is frequented by the spirit of your maid, and your murdered sister walks these corridors. To be plain, there is no room at Sloperton Grange for another ghost.
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