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On the contrary, when the first symptom appeared of a desire to reduce speed Jake drove his cruel spurs into the charger's glossy side. With a wild snort and bound the horse stretched out again and spurned the ground as if in indignant surprise. Then the breath began to labour slightly; the sweat to darken his rich brown coat, and the white foam to fleck his broad chest.
Ride down yonder and fa' here, you, Legs, there! follow me, and shoot down every man that stops to plunder!" Now I saw the new firing-line, out on our left, and as the rattle of it quickened, the Colonel galloped, still roaring out his rallying-cries and wiping his reeking blade across his charger's mane.
Let me hear again the ringing spears, and the battle-trumpet's breath; Let me see the fiery charger's foam, and the royal banner wave But where art thou, my brother? where? in thy low and early grave!"
There was a gleam of steel, the rush of a charger's feet, and as man and horse swept by the fainting girl the swing of a saber, and the heavy trampling of iron-clad hoofs! Only Justine Delande saw the flashing saber cleaving the air again and again, as Hardwicke gracefully leaned to his saddle bow, in the right and left cut on the ground.
He had already gone forty long miles since morning. Yet, undaunted, he took up the return with good zest, holding a smart pace unwearily. He breathed deep, and his long Roman nose thrust out on a line with his rocking back smoked like an eager charger's.
"Shure, I niver knew him, sorr," was the quick reply, as Blake's long, lean leg swung over the big charger's back and the rider settled in saddle. "But he knew you perfectly well. He dared you by name, when we closed on them you and Mr. Field."
There was a rush to man the wheels and sweat the gate up, and Cunningham started to run down the zigzag pathway. He thought better of it, though, and waited where the path gave out onto the courtyard, giving the signal with the cords for the gate to lower away again. "Evening, Mahommed Gunga!" he said, almost casually, as the weary charger's nose appeared above the rise. "Salaam, bahadur!"
Truly he would be a rare sacrifice to offer to Odin; but the god has himself welcomed him here." "It may be that he welcomed him as a sacrifice, father," Sweyn suggested. "Ah! that may be so," the jarl replied. "We must consult the omens to find out the true meaning of my charger's neighing.
Now stops the drum close, close they come thrice meet, and thrice give back; The white foam of Harpado lies on the charger's breast of black The white foam of the charger on Harpado's front of dun Once more advance upon his lance once more, thou fearless one!
The bridle drooped on the bay charger's neck. The captain's figure seemed limp. With an expression of profound dejection and gloom he stared off at where the leaden sky met the dark green line of the woods. The long-impending rain began to fall with a mournful patter, drop and drop. There was a silence.
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