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The King's son asked, "Who art thou?" and she answered, "I am daughter to a King among the Kings of Hind, and I was travelling with a caravan in the desert when drowsiness overcame me, and I fell from my beast unwittingly whereby I am cut off from my people and sore bewildered."
Now and again he shook his head slowly up and down, and cast appealing glances at those around him, as his trembling legs seemed about to give way under him. His hour had come the poor, old horse! and he was dying in harness like a brave beast, as he was.
I believe it was a young Irish seminarist, some student for the priesthood whom my mother met in Belgium the year before I was born. If I ever find out more I will tell you. You haven't seen 'Soapy Sam, the Vicar of Woodcote, or that beast, George Crofts; but if you had, you'd be as sure as I am that neither of them was my father thank goodness!
Since he was apparently doomed to survive, he would go home but go home very much as some trapped or wounded beast crawls back to hide in its lair. He was master in his own house, at least, and safe from intrusion there. The place offered the silent sympathy of things familiar, and therefore, in a sense, uncritical. It is restful to look on that upon which one has already looked a thousand times.
Steel emerged from his study. "Australia, my dear Miss Venables," said he, "is the one country that neither my wife nor I have ever visited in our lives, and the last one that either of us has the least curiosity to see." And he took his seat among them with a smile. It was that discomfort to man, that cruelty to beast, that outrage by unnatural Nature upon all her children a bitter summer's day.
"In half an hour," Captain Whalley's rigid silvery head repeated behind him as if out of a trance. Amidships, below, two voices, close against the engineroom, could be heard answering each other one angry and slow, the other alert. "I tell you the beast has locked himself in to get drunk." "Can't help it now, Mr. Massy. After all, a man has a right to shut himself up in his cabin in his own time."
The least ennobling remembrances; for what can be more degrading than the amusements of a degraded people, who reserved meekness for their tyrants, and lavished ferocity on their shows? From that of the wild beast to that of the Christian martyr, blood has been the only sanctification of this temple to the Arts.
'Why not? said Alan Fairford, for whom the tale began to have some interest. 'Because there was an unchancy beast of a dragoon riding close beside us on the other side; and if I had let him into my confidence as well as Harry, it would not have been long before a pistol-ball slapped through my bonnet.
The mahout let me feed him, and the big beast was quite chummy with me took me up in his trunk, and set me up astride on him." "Well, suppose he did," said Archie peevishly; "what's that got to do with our position here? Where is your chummy friend?" "That's what I want to tell you, sir.
The whole affair, however, was nothing at all to her, and she would have dismissed it from her thoughts altogether, but for what happened on the journey. From the miserable roads, eight hours a day of travelling was found quite enough for man and beast; the product of which eight hours was from ten to twelve leagues.
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