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And already, by signs audible through the darkness, by snortings and tramplings, our angry horses, that knew no fear or fleshly weariness, upbraided us with delay. Wherefore was it that we delayed? We waited for a secret word, that should bear witness to the hope of nations as now accomplished for ever. At midnight the secret word arrived; which word was Waterloo and Recovered Christendom!
The cook could not hear him, and continued swimming on with all the force of his faith, repeating his pious invocations between his noisy snortings. A cask climbed the crest of a wave, rolling down on the opposite side. The head of the blind swimmer came in its way.... A thudding crash. Padre San Vicente!... And Caragol disappeared with bleeding head and a mouth full of salt.
He looked out to sea, and saw the island, but nowhere could he see the water-steeds, and he began to fear he must have taken a wrong course in the night, and that the island before him was not the one he was in search of. But even while he was so thinking he heard fierce and angry snortings, and, coming swiftly from the island to the shore, he saw the swimming and prancing steeds.
At the edge of the eddy he stopped, casting an appraising eye over the collection of débris, in order to pick out a stable retreat and also the most secure path to it. In this pause the monsters swept up with a thunder of trampling hooves and windy snortings. They had their victims at last where there was no escape.
The belligerents vented their feelings of mutual contempt, for some time, in a variety of frownings and snortings, until at last the scorbutic youth felt it necessary to come to a more explicit understanding on the matter; when the following clear understanding took place. 'Sawyer, said the scorbutic youth, in a loud voice. 'Well, Noddy, replied Mr. Bob Sawyer.
Peacock, in a voice harsh with rage and grief answered: "It's the old horse and two of the cows!" "God bless me!" cried the Squire, rushing forward with his bucket. Some villagers came running up, and he shouted to these, but what he said neither he nor they could tell. The shrieks and snortings of the horse and cows, the steady whirr of the flames, drowned all lesser sounds.
Assured now of food to sustain him on the journey, assured of his own ability to master all other obstacles that might seek to withstand him, Pete Noël made up his mind to sleep, wrapping himself in his blankets under the shelter of the dead bull. Then the old hunter's instinct began to stir. All about him, in every momentary lull of the wind, were snortings and heavy breathings.
If he remained where he was he would attract attention if anyone passed by. "Fight, Childe Harold, be as vicious as you choose do not allow yourself to be dragged back." And fight he did, with an ugliness of temper he had never shown before with snortings and tossed head and lashed out heels, as if he knew he was fighting to gain time and with a purpose.
At last he reached firm land on the other side of this watery tract, and came to his house on the rise behind Elsenford an ordinary farmstead, from the back of which rose indistinct breathings, belchings, and snortings, the rattle of halters, and other familiar features of an agriculturist's home.
The surface of the barren, all along the edge of the grass land, had given way beneath the weight of the sambur herds, and the front ranks were being engulfed with frantic snortings and awful groans, in what looked like a dense, blackish, glistening ooze.
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