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"Yes, the stable-man says that they are kind and gentle and very susceptible to kind treatment." From the big stable they emerged into the big barn lot, passed through a gate in a division fence, and saw a big flock of chickens. There were about one hundred of the little things, all like little balls of down, following clucking mother hens all over the place.
"I suppose there is no place near here where I can have a new tire put on this wheel?" said I to the stable-man. "Not nearer than Waterton," he replied; "but we could take you and your machine there in a wagon." "That's so," said the boy. "I'll drive." I glared upon the two fellows as if they had been a couple of fiends who were trying to put a drop of poison into my cup of joy.
Here we were at fault: none of us had been provident of this article, and we wanted words to beg the stable-man to provide, if he could, the halters, and put them in the bill. In the midst of our perplexity a man entered, whom we hailed as a friend in need. He was a Greek, unmistakeable by physiognomy, even had he not been so by dress.
'A closed chaise and four? the man answered, looking down at the party; and then recognising Sir George, 'I beg your honour's pardon, he said. 'Here, Jeremy, to the guard while the stable-man and helpers paused to listen or stared at the heaving flanks of the riders' horses 'did we meet a closed chaise and four to-night?
The next morning after his arrest Duncan was placed on the train, and in company with John Manning started for Chicago. The detective had experienced no difficulty in disposing of the horse owned by the young prisoner, and Mr. Livermore, the stable-man, became his purchaser for a fair price.
The Sharpe's rifle put into his hands by the stable-man was accompanied by a familiar word of suggestion as to an equal, which he was ashamed to find flattered him. He was able to continue the conversation with Rawlins more coolly. "Then you suspect who is the leader?" "Only on giniral principles. There was a finer touch, so to speak, in this yer robbery that wasn't in the old-fashioned style.
"What has happened?" repeated the mother, addressing the stable-man. "I don't know, but Monsieur Moreau is no longer steward of Presles, and they say your son has caused it. His Excellency ordered that he should be sent home to you. Here's a letter from poor Monsieur Moreau, madame, which will tell you all. You never saw a man so changed in a single day."
He nodded curtly, with an upward jerk of the head, as Lory climbed into the saddle and rode away; for there is nothing so difficult to conceal as horsemanship. "A soldier," muttered the stable-man. "A gendarme, as likely as not." De Vasselot did not ask the way, but trusted to Fortune, who as usual favoured him who left her a free hand.
The dream of his life was a brilliant marriage for his daughter, and no amount of argument could alter his opinion that Colonel Bill was a rude, unlettered stable-man. "Why, sir," he would exclaim, over a mint-julep, to his friend Major Johnson, who always defended the Colonel vigorously, "the idea of such attentions to my daughter is preposterous ludicrous!
You've not learned your trade yet, Samson. Then he led me into my box, took off the saddle and bridle with his own hands, and tied me up; then he called for a pail of warm water and a sponge, took off his coat, and while the stable-man held the pail, he sponged my sides a good while, so tenderly that I was sure he knew how sore and bruised they were.
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