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Updated: September 21, 2025
If he had been a vainer man, he might have been aware that he, in his way, was as well worth looking at as she in hers. He was big and limber, in the full ripeness of his youth, sunburned and level-eyed. His life in ships had marked him as plainly as a branding-iron.
"Well," said Abe, raising the Rebel's hat on the point of his bayonet, and laying it across the corpse's face, "he's changed bosses much sooner than he expected. Jeff. Davis's blood-relation, who presides over the Sulphur Confederacy, will put on his shoulder-straps with a branding-iron, and serve up his rations for him red-hot. I only wish he had more going along with him to keep him company."
So I must take a little here and a little there. "Then I want another quilt for myself, and shoes for both of us. Is there anything else you can think of?" "Manifestly!" "What, in the name of Mercury," he whispered amazedly, "do you want of a branding-iron and a scourge?"
Steal a scourge and a branding-iron tonight, and let us be ready for the road as soon as may be; we cannot set out northwards till my back is healed and the brands on both of us, too." We wrangled and argued till it was past time for him to start on his expedition.
"Bring him to me here this instant," said he, "and let Marcus with his knife and branding-iron be in attendance." "If it please you, great Caesar," said Arsenius Platus, the officer of attendance, "the man cannot be found, and there are some very strange rumours flying about." "Rumours!" cried the angry Nero. "What do you mean, Arsenius?
To trade upon her magnificent generosity of affection, and seek refuge in those outstretched arms now, with the mark of the branding-iron so sensibly upon him, appeared to him of all contemptible doings the most radically contemptible. Obviously it was impossible to go back. He must go on rather out of sight, out of mind.
I didn't mean to turn and rend you like this. I know you see there is something wrong. There is. But I can't tell you or any other man. There are some things that have to be borne in silence, some marks of the branding-iron, which one dare not show to even one's dearest friend." Howard turned aside and began to put on his gloves with great care.
He spoke at length, and in his voice was something she had never heard before something from which she shrank uncontrollably, as the victim shrinks from the branding-iron. "And so you think you can leave me as lightly as Lady Joanna Farringmore left that man I went to see today?" She lifted her head with a gasp. "No!" she said. "Oh, no! Not like that!"
The meeting-place was appointed weeks beforehand, and all the ranchmen of the territory to be covered by the round-up sent their representatives. There were no fences in the West that I knew, and their place was taken by the cowboy and the branding-iron. The cattle wandered free. Each calf was branded with the brand of the cow it was following.
From the inside of this sleeping-place there came sounds of energetic house-cleaning: pieces of property came tumbling out of the door an old saddle-blanket, a yellow slicker, a pair of boots, a tin bucket. Finally a branding-iron bounded back from the heap and fell rattling on the door-sill; then there was a sound of wiping and dusting out. Janet sat silent, her hands in her lap.
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