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At other times he used to say that it was a political matter. In fine, Carlos had the hospitality of the Priory, and the title of Count when he chose to use it. For myself, the first shock of his strangeness over-come, I adored Carlos, and Veronica liked him, and laughed at him, till one day he said good-by and rode off along the London road, followed by his Tomas Castro.
"Miss Marchmont marries the Duke of Hyde, in three weeks, Baxter." "Indeed, sir!" "You were, I believe, aware of the fact that Miss Marchmont and I were as good as engaged?" "I had hem! gathered as much, sir." "Then confound it all, Baxter! why aren't you surprised?" "I am quite over-come, sir!" said Baxter, stooping to recover the salt-spoon which had slipped to the floor.
But his four companions threw themselves between, and a clumsy struggle took place for possession of the tiller. In the end Yellow Handkerchief was over-come, and sullenly returned to the steering, while they soundly berated him for his rashness. Not long after, the sail was run down and the junk slowly urged forward by means of the sweeps. I felt it ground gently on the soft mud.
At the Battle of Poitiers, memorable in English history, John, King of France, became the prisoner of Edward the Black Prince. His nobles, one after another, fell by his side, but he contended valiantly to the last, until, spent with fatigue and over-come by numbers, he surrendered. His son, of the same age as the son of the French Emperor, was wounded while battling for his father.
Looking out of the window I saw a crow, which I knew to be a fish-crow, perched upon the edge of the nest, hastily bolting the eggs. The parent birds, usually so ready for the attack, seemed over-come with grief and alarm. They fluttered about in the most helpless and bewildered manner, and it was not till the robber fled on my approach that they recovered themselves and charged upon him.
It was very confusing at first, but at last they ran their quarry to earth. And this'll be her brother, Quintin Reginald Feurbras what names! Teenie, her mother was an earl's daughter!" "Oh, mercy!" wailed Miss Teenie, quite over-come. "Yes, see here. 6th Earl of Champertoun a Scotch earl too! Lady Ann was her name. Fancy that now!" "And her so pleasant!" said Miss Teenie.
The motor was speeded up until it sounded like the roar of the ocean surf in a storm. "Let her go!" cried Tom to Mr. Damon and Mr. Jackson, who were holding back the Humming-Bird. They gave her a slight shove to over-come the inertia, and the trim little craft darted across the ground at every increasing speed.
"When the lady who need not be more specifically mentioned told me you had come to Doom, it was like the over-come of a song at first that I had heard of you before. And now that I see you, I mind the story went, when I was at Dunkerque some years ago, that Count Victor Jean, if all his other natural gifts had failed him, might have made a noble fortune as a maître d'escrime.
How had he over-come the enmity with which these ladies had been ready to receive him, and made his peace with them so easily? My readers will guess from what I have written that I myself do not like Mr. Slope, but I am constrained to admit that he is a man of parts.
The magistrate perceived that it would require more than one assault to over-come such a stubborn nature. So, in a voice rendered still more harsh by disappointment, he resumed: "It is plain that you are determined to deny evidence itself." The prisoner had recovered all his self-possession. He must have bitterly regretted his weakness, for a fiendish spite glittered in his eyes.
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