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His Lordship strode forward, followed more leisurely by the smiling Count. "Prince Roland," said Cologne, "I had not expected this after our conference of last night." "I fail to understand why, my Lord, when my parting words were 'Tell your porter to let me in without parley. That surely indicated an intention on my part to visit the Palace."
The boy could only point to the window, and reply with a stifled giggle, expressive of such intense enjoyment, that Quilp clutched him by the throat and might have carried his threat into execution, or at least have made very good progress towards that end, but for the boy's nimbly extricating himself from his grasp, and fortifying himself behind the nearest post, at which, after some fruitless attempts to catch him by the hair of the head, his master was obliged to come to a parley.
They knew the white soldiers would take no advantage of foemen gathered for a conference or parley, and thus far the Sioux themselves had observed the custom which the Modocs basely violated when in cold blood they slaughtered General Canby and the peace commissioners sent to treat with them.
On the one hand, most of the New Englanders, led by Samuel Adams and John Adams, his cousin, felt that the time for parley was at an end, that nothing was to be hoped for from the North Ministry, and that the only reasonable step was to declare independence.
I shall get my hand out. For Rire-pour-tout, as the army knows, somehow or other, generally potted his man every day, and he missed it terribly. Well, what did he do? He rode off one morning and found out the Arab camp, and he waved a white flag for a parley. He didn't dismount, but he just faced the Arabs and spoke to their Sheik. 'Things are slow, he said to them.
Two men, however, in the Argive army, Thrasylus, one of the five generals, and Alciphron, the Lacedaemonian proxenus, just as the armies were upon the point of engaging, went and held a parley with Agis and urged him not to bring on a battle, as the Argives were ready to refer to fair and equal arbitration whatever complaints the Lacedaemonians might have against them, and to make a treaty and live in peace in future.
The Count understood that, but did not withdraw his proposal, for he seemed to have a special object in his visit. "Let me into your chamber, and I will tell you, in three words, a secret that concerns us both." Eleazar did not yield, but began to parley. "Say one word, a single word to convince me," he asked. "Oppas! there is one for you." Eleazar opened his eyes, but asked for yet another one.
I have no doubt that the letter communicating his death was directed to that address." The next day a messenger brought a note to Harry's hotel: "Dear Major Lindsay: "We find that your grandfather was a landowner in Norfolk. His address was Parley House, Merdford.
You see that 12-pounder yonder to the right? Very well, dismount it. Then we'll send in a flag of truce, and parley with this Mattingley, for his jests are worth attention and politeness. There's a fellow at the gun no, he has gone. Dismount the right-hand gun at one shot. Ready now. Get a good range." The whole matter went through Ranulph's mind as the captain spoke.
Whereupon I again turned my back on the heights of the Erzgebirge, and was travelling by special coach in the direction of Tharand, when I too was overcome with sleep, and was only awakened by violent shouts and the sound of some one holding a parley with the postillion.
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