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He has been in Spain, and has seen how invariably the mule attacks the horse; now why does the mule attack the horse? Why, because the latter carries about with him that which the envious hermaphrodite does not possess.
"I took him up in my arms, general, as I had taken the woman, carried him to my cart, when I bound up his breast in the best way I could, and laid him by the side of the half-drowned lady." "To get a reward from his friends, too, no doubt?" "Well, general, we must live, you know. And did I not deserve something for being so scared and for the use of my mule?" "Certainly you did.
I took the mule and the horse for what he owed us; he assured me that they were two noble steeds." "Well, madame," said Porthos, "if he owed you more than five crowns, your horsedealer is a thief." "There is no harm in trying to buy things cheap, Monsieur Porthos," said the procurator's wife, seeking to excuse herself.
On this point, Lisbeth was as obstinate as a mule; she would please no one but herself and believed herself charming; whereas this assimilative process harmonious, no doubt, in so far as that it stamped her for an old maid from head to foot made her so ridiculous, that, with the best will in the world, no one could admit her on any smart occasion.
But we shall be riding all day, he said to himself, Arimathea must be a long long way from here, and he fled downstairs to ask his father if Azariah would call for him at the head of a caravan, whether he would ride on a camel or a mule or a horse: he thought he would like to ride a camel, and awoke many times in the night, once rolling out of his bed, for in a dream the ungainly animal had jolted him from off his hump.
Enquiries among the inhabitants of the mountain villages resulted in several of them coming forward with the information that they had seen a small body of armed Chinese escorting a cloaked and shrouded figure on a mule and climbing up towards Bhutan.
From the khan the ascent is more gradual, though in places muddy and disagreeable from the drizzling rain which still falls, and about 4 P.M. I arrive at the summit. The descent is smoother, and shorter than the western slope, but is even more abrupt; the composition is a slaty, blue clay, in which the caravans have worn trails so deep in places that a mule is hidden completely from view.
"He is as proud as a marble lion, and as obstinate as a Lombardy mule," explained Nella, with fine imagery. "If that is not enough to make one dislike a young man, you shall tell me so! But one of those days he will fall. There is trouble for the proud." "How does his great pride show itself?" asked Marietta. "I have not noticed it."
My shoulder will be stiff and my arm in a sling for a week, but muleteers think nothing of such trifles, a kick from a mule would be a much more serious affair." "You don't think those rascals are likely to waylay us on the road, and take their revenge?" "Not they, senor. If you could do such things unarmed, what could you not do when you had rifles and pistols? The matter is settled.
When the dust cloud cleared, one mule which had broken loose was galloping madly across country, the rest were down and dead. The gun, dismounted, was half buried in a pile of shale which lay feet deep across the road. Of the men, not one remained. Most were not only dead, but buried. Two only lay clear, and to all appearance they were as dead as their companions. Roy looked at Ken.
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