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But somebody is out for your blood, and here is clear warning. Gee whizz! If I remain in Steynholme a week I shall become an occultist. What is a lyme-hound?" "'Lyme, or 'leam, is the old-time word for 'leash." "Good!" said Hart. "That will appeal to Furneaux. Have him in to dinner every day, Jack. He's a tonic!"
But be not over-greedy, Anthony covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain. Look you, when the huntsman goes to kill a stag, he takes with him more dogs than one. He has the stanch lyme-hound to track the wounded buck over hill and dale, but he hath also the fleet gaze-hound to kill him at view.
Thou art the lyme-hound, I am the gaze-hound; and thy patron will need the aid of both, and can well afford to requite it. Thou hast deep sagacity an unrelenting purpose a steady, long-breathed malignity of nature, that surpasses mine. But then, I am the bolder, the quicker, the more ready, both at action and expedient.
And Hart read: One thing is certain in our Northern land; Allow that birth, or valor, wealth, or wit, Give each precedence to their possessor, Envy, that follows on such eminence, As comes the lyme-hound on the roebuck's trace, Shall pull them down each one. "Yes," said Grant. "Love isn't mentioned. The fair Doris will be true. You're in luck, my boy.
He fled, a ruined man, back to his native county and his noble old seat of Affton; but Ate is on the heels of such 'Slowly she tracks him and sure, as a lyme-hound, sudden she grips him, Crushing him, blind in his pride, for a sign and a terror to mortals. A terrible plebiscitum had been passed in the West country against the betrayer of its last Worthy.
One thing is certain in our Northern land Allow that birth or valour, wealth or wit, Give each precedence to their possessor, Envy, that follows on such eminence, As comes the lyme-hound on the roebuck's trace, Shall pull them down each one. Leopold, Grand Duke of Austria, was the first possessor of that noble country to whom the princely rank belonged.
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