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"Please come a-ridin'," he urged. "It's the prettiest kind of a day." She looked at him frankly, and there was a pause. "I will take back two things that I said to you," she then answered him. "I believe that I do like you. And I know that if I went riding with you, I should not have an immature protector." And then, with a final gesture of acknowledgment, she held out her hand to him.
"An' I seen him a-ridin' off from town in the rain arterward, his head hangin' plumb down ter the saddle-bow." Her amazed eyes were still fastened upon his face, but her hand no longer trembled on the back of the chair. He suddenly held out his own hand to her, his sympathy and regret returning as he recalled the picture of the lonely wayfarer in the rain that had touched him so.
That was the scene on which Dave Carson gazed, as he rose in his saddle, his breath coming in quicker measures, while a fierce light shone in his eyes, for he was having a part in it all. It was one of the many round-ups on the Bar U range, and there was work for all, more than enough. "Hi there, Gimp! Watch where yo-all are a-ridin'!" "Swing him over there! I'll handle that critter!"
However, for all its ugliness, it possessed a seeming of vast power, a suggestion of great strength. The stranger looked the group over with his keen, hard eyes, and spoke in a slow drawl. "I reckon," he said, "I'm a-ridin' th' wrong trail. I hain't expected hyar."
But I couldn't help thinkin' that is the way that it has always been, men a-ridin' the chariots of Power, drawed by satisfied ambition, and enterprise, and social and legal powers, and the wimmen a-walkin' along afoot by the side of the chariot, and a-leadin' the horses. Bringin' men into the world, nurturin' 'em, comfortin' 'em through life, and weepin' over their tomb.
Banks of vapor, rose and gold, began to pile up in the southwest, their glow tinting the earth with the same colors. But beauty did not appeal just then to the Ring Tailed Panther, who began to roar. "A-ridin', an' a-ridin'," he said, "an' nothin' done. Up to San Antonio an' back to camp, an' things are just as they were before."
"Aye, to be sure, sir!" nodded Mr. Shrig. "Wiciousness has been a-ridin' in that theer chaise an' Windictiveness a-gallopin' arter on your 'oss. P'raps you can likewise tell me who't was as rode your 'oss?" "No," I answered, "unless good heaven, can it be Anthony my friend Mr. Vere-Manville?" "Name sounds familiar!" said Mr.
"That's all square enough. You're goin' to love me before we get through. I wish yu'd come a-ridin, ma'am." "Dear, dear, dear! So I'm going to love you? How will you do it? I know men think that they only need to sit and look strong and make chests at a girl " "Goodness gracious! I ain't makin' any chests at yu'!" Laughter overcame him for a moment, and Miss Wood liked his laugh very much.
As I stood and looked at them books I got carried a good ways off a-ridin' on Wonder a-wonderin' whether them books had done any good in the world. I'd wanted 'em to, I'd wanted 'em to like a dog. Sometimes I'd felt real riz up a-thinkin' they had, and then agin I've felt dubersome. But I knew they had gin great enjoyment, I'd hearn on't.
Such gwines-on as nevah was dem dar Yankees a-ridin' aroun' an' eatin' up de face o' de yearth, like de plagues o' Pha'aoah, Marse Daniel, and rippin' and rarin' an' racin' an' stealin' evehything dey could lay dey han's on, Marse Daniel. An' ouah folks a-ridin' and a racin' and projickin' aroun' in de same onsettled way.
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