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Haig paused, on one foot as it were, and looked over his shoulder. "It was fortunate for you that he's been well gentled," he said. "You should look to your cinches rather often when you ride these hills." "Yes, it was careless of me," she answered, trying to say it brightly, but really wanting to shriek. "It happens to everybody once in a while," he said.
Longstreet rode him, delighting in the pony's high spirits, more delighted to see how he 'came around. Gentled sufficiently and reminded that he was no longer a free agent to fling up his heels at the wind and race recklessly where he would, but that he was man's friend and servant, Danny was presented to Helen.
I see Calliope lookin' at him an' all of a sudden it come to me that if I'd 'a' loved him as she use' to, I'd 'a' walked over there an' then, an' sort o' gentled his hair, no matter what. "But Calliope, she turned sharp away from him an' begun lookin' around the room, like she see it for the first time smoky lamp-chimney, old newspapers layin' 'round, used-up glasses, an' such like.
At any rate we'll give her the benefit of the doubt, for at that moment Apache gave testimony of the tickle in his toes by springing straight up into the air in as good an imitation of a "buck" as any "thoroughly gentled" little broncho could give in the polite society of his aristocratic Virginia cousins. Mrs.
"Well then," said Hardy, with finality, "if you'll get up early in the morning, I'll catch you a little pony that I gentled myself, and we can ride up the river together. How does that strike you?" "Fine!" exclaimed Lucy, with sudden enthusiasm. "Oh, Rufus," she cried impulsively, "if you only knew how weak and helpless a thing it is to be a woman and how glad we are to be noticed!
He was studiously courteous to the servants at the castle, who had regarded his coming with absolute terror; he calmed and gentled the timid old earl, and drew him out to tell stories of the days of the Commonwealth, when one of Cromwell's troopers pulled the minister out of the pulpit of the Abbey kirk, and held forth himself on the sins both of Prelacy and Presbytery, declaring that he was as good a priest as any man.
He can bring along Rocket, to be ready for a chase, providing we can find the brute. Queer about that hawss. Wanted to ride him this morning. Found he'd got out and gone off the way he used to before Lafe gentled him." While talking, the two men had returned to the cowman's horse and started around the hill to the camp.
Pa answered the bell in his shirt sleeves and with a claw hammer in his hand, for he had been hanging pictures. He favored his visitor with a wide smile of welcome and a hearty greeting-quite a feat, inasmuch as his mouth was full of nails then, having rid it of its contents, he explained: "We got a slave that tends the door, but I 'ain't got gentled up to bells an' things yet.
They were reluctant even to shoot any of the larger wild animals that wandered through the swamp, and they felt actual pain when they slew the wild ducks and wild geese caught in their snares. "I'm bein' gentled fast," said Shif'less Sol. "Ef this keeps on fur a month or so I won't hev the heart to shoot at any Injun who may come ag'inst me. I'll jest say: 'Here, Mr.
In the round corral at Hidden Water there was roping and riding as Creede and Hardy gentled their prizes; in the cool evenings they rode forth along the Alamo, counting the cows as they came down to water or doctoring any that were sick; and at night they lay on their cots beneath the ramada telling long stories till they fell asleep.
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