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Twenty-three guns followed in regular succession, with an interval of fifteen seconds between each when the cloud cleared away, and the ship lay dressed in her colors, all day. At sun-down, another salute of the same number of guns was fired, and all the flags run down. This we thought was pretty well a gun every fifteen seconds for a merchantman with only four guns and a dozen or twenty men.
Now here beside me sitteth Sir Fidelis, who though methinks the most youthful of us all, hath a head in council wiser than us all. For he hath spoke me that whereby though few in number and lacking engines for battery, Giles we yet may win through the walls of Belsaye ere sun-down. Know you this country, Walkyn?" WALKYN. "As my hand, lord." BELTANE. "Is there a village hereabouts?"
She would have found that her capacity for hatred had increased and also her dangerous qualities, and she would have found all this because God had so ordered life that it is adaptable, making the defensive and offensive qualities of the being capable of increase or decrease in answer to environment or need. She came back to the beach. It wanted, still, a couple of hours of sun-down.
But Will Locke placidly stood the storm they had brewed, only remembering in years to come some words which Dulcie did not retain for a sun-down. Dulcie was now affronted and hurt, now steady as a stepping-stone and erect as a sweet-pea, when either of the two assailants dared to blame Will, or to imply that he should have refrained from this mischief. Why, what could Will have done?
The man who stood by his side, and held the reins, could have informed him, for Ani had recognized Pentaur, and in his horror had given the reins a perilous jerk. The king did not return to the great pavilion till after sun-down; the banqueting hall, illuminated with a thousand lamps, was now filled with the gay crowd of guests who awaited the arrival of the king.
Leach, let the people push matters, and we shall have every, thing up forward, and that mainmast stepped yet by 'sunset; or it would be more literal to say 'sun-down;" Captain Truck, like a true New-England-man, invariably using a provincialism that has got to be so general in America.
I tuk dat inter de town one Saturday in de ebenin', an' went roun' h'yer an' dar, a-tryin' ter git de biggest price 'mong de buyers dat I could. "It happened dat I done forgot al 'bout it's comin' on late, an' jest a little atter sun-down, I struck on a man dat offered me 'bout a cent a poun' more'n ennybody else hed done, an' I traded wid him.
The breathing of that beast of prey was in my ear always; his fierce heart panted close against mine; he never stirred in his lair but I felt him: I knew he waited only for sun-down to bound ravenous from his ambush.
A pair of horses were hired the best that money could procure and before sun-down we had cleared the suburbs of the city, and were riding along the road that conducts to the village of Bringiers. We travelled rapidly. There were no hills to impede our progress.
I do not know the reason of this precaution, but no enemy was found. We camped that night along the road. April 4th we resumed the march, soon after sunrise. We were short of provisions, and foragers were sent out to secure what could be gathered from the country. I was out in the afternoon. While returning in the evening, after sun-down, I was shot at by some one, when quite near the column.
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