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The trooper was leading the horses up and down, and Sergeant McGillicuddy, as escort, put both ladies into their saddles and then himself mounted. Just as Mrs. Fortescue settled herself in saddle and gave her horse a light touch with her riding-crop, a strange sound was borne upon the sharp wind, the unmistakable sound of a runaway horse.
He lay in spread-eagle, small-child fashion, arms and legs thrown wide, the black, curly head disdaining the pillow, one fist clutching a man's riding-crop. In sleep the little face was an exquisite one; the onlookers might guess what it would be awake. Burns pointed at the crop, smiling. "That was the nearest approach to a plaything I could muster to-night. To-morrow the shops will help me out."
He stepped into the long corridor of the inn, where many people lounged about, and heard with keen satisfaction and relief the click of a telegraph instrument that seemed at once to bring him into contact with the remote world. He filed his telegrams and walked the length of the broad hall, his riding-crop under his arm.
The French lost six officers and eighty men killed; wounded list not completed. "The Emperor was present with the Prince Imperial." Leaving his pad on the table and his riding-crop and gloves over it, he gathered up the loose leaves of his telegram and hastened across the street to the telegraph office.
"The duke?" "Yes. I am the Princess Hildegarde." The Princess Hildegarde of Barscheit! My gloves and riding-crop slipped from my nerveless fingers to the floor. A numbing, wilting sensation wrinkled my spine. The Princess Hildegarde of Barscheit! She stood opposite me, the woman ought I not to say girl? for whom I had been seeking, after a fashion, all these months!
Weston, as I remember it, compared him to a gipsy fortune-teller, and went on through the gamut of impostor, mountebank and charlatan, before he commanded him to desist on the moment. I don't quite know what came next, though something was said about a lifted riding-crop, but within the week Clarence started for Canada." "He abandoned the attempt to find water?" Ainslie smiled.
He grasped his riding-crop a little more firmly in his hand and strode through the doorway. In a dark corner something moved. "Ah! would you!" cried Captain Phillips, turning sharply on the instant. He raised his crop above his head and then a crouching figure fell at his feet and embraced his knees; and a trembling voice of fear cried: "Save me! Your Excellency will not give me up!
"Poor Cigarette," she added, descending to prose again, and tapping Cigarette's nose with the butt of her riding-crop. "How he did heave and pant when he caught up with us! And Sunbeam never turned a hair!" "What made you call him Sunbeam?" Stephen asked, with an effort to appear undisturbed, as he watched her stroking the glossy black neck.
"But I but you don't love can't be in love with me!" he stammered. "I am." Gloved hands tightening on either end of her riding-crop, she bent her knee against it, balancing there, looking straight at him. "I meant to tell you so," she said, "if you didn't tell me first. So I was rather tired waiting. So I've told you." "It is only a fancy," he said, scarcely knowing what he was saying.
What puzzles me is, he's so quiet. You mark my words " Sir Harry rose, buttoned his coat and shook his riding-crop prophetically "he's brewing up for something. There'll be the devil of a flare-up before he has done." It came with the Midsummer bonfires. At nine o'clock on St. John's Eve, Mr. Raymond read prayers in the church.
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