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Morsfield was left to the shaking of a dusty coat, while the chariot rolled its gentle course down the leafy lane into the high-road. His friend had seized the horse's bridle-reins; and he remarked: 'I say, Dolf, we don't prosper to-day. 'He pays for it! said Morsfield, foot in stirrup. 'You'll take him and trounce him at the inn. I don't fight with servants. Better game.
'And you have not been merely amusing yourself all this time? 'Before Heaven, I cried with fervour, 'I have not! 'You are not one of those false men who give their bridle-reins a shake, and ride off with "Adieu for evermore!" tell me you are not?
A thunder of hoofs and they were in touch; Constans felt himself hurled into space; the bridle-reins of tough plaited leather were torn from his hands; Night and he were down. The dust cloud cleared and the boy struggled up, although his head was still spinning from the shock of the encounter. Ten yards away lay the black mare with a broken foreleg.
He saw the man, in an effort to recover his balance, put his own weight on the bridle-reins. And he saw the horse, half-rearing, half-tottering and stumbling, overthrow the last shred of the man's balance so that he followed the dog to the ground. "And then they are like two dogs, like two beasts," Piccolomini was wont to tell in after-years over a glass of wine in his little hotel in Glen Ellen.
At first glance he thought, as Billy Jordan had thought, that the animal was tied there. And then he saw that the bridle-reins were upon the ground, that they had been trampled upon and broken, that the two stirrups were hanging upside down in the stirrup leathers as stirrups are likely to do when a saddled horse has been running riderless. She had been to investigate the Secret!
Richie an affectionate farewell, should stagger out into the street and ride away on the horse of someone else. The ensuing hours of the evening and the night were a merciful blank to Mr. Dawson. His first conscious thought was when he awoke at dawn on a side-hill, a sharp rock prodding him in the small of the back and the bridle-reins of his dozing horse wound round one arm.
And I want to lay it off to you right now that all the influence you can command in this state isn't going to save you when I go after you!" Boyle picked up his bridle-reins and threaded his arm through them, standing so, legs wide apart, while he rolled a cigarette. As it dangled between his lips and the smoke of it rose up, veiling his eyes, he peered narrowly through it at the doctor.
Captain Means, Ellison, and myself were a little distance behind the wagons, on horseback; observing that the balance of our men were evading them, the blood-thirsty savages at once threw off their masks of dissimulation and in an instant we knew the time for a struggle had arrived. The Indians, as we rode on, seized our bridle-reins and began to fire upon us.
And when the other horses saw him looking at Dad with his tail cocked, and his head up, and the bridle-reins hanging, they went for their lives through the trees, and Blossom's foal got staked. Another day Dad was out on Ned, looking for the red heifer, and came across two men fencing a tall, powerful-looking man with a beard, and a slim young fellow with a smooth face. Also a kangaroo-pup.
Some remained mounted, lounging carelessly in their saddles, but far the larger number were on foot, their bridle-reins wound about their wrists. All alike appeared alert and ready for any emergency. How many composed the party I was unable to judge with accuracy, as they constantly came and went from out the shadows beyond the circumference of the fire.
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