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A half-score of adventuresome gulls were still following in the foam-churned wake. In the face of all the pitching about, Mrs. Richards had quite a battle to direct her shuttle to any efficient purpose, and Claire was almost amused at the grim determination she brought to the performance. Presently a warning whistle from the ferryboat betrayed the fact that they were nearing Sausalito. Mrs.
But the one face she hoped to find was missing, even among the stragglers at the back; and it took all her self-control to keep disappointment and an odd, hurt feeling out of her voice as she gave the epilogue. On the way to her tent a half-score of them were used as dressing-rooms behind the stage George Travis overtook her. "It's all right, girl. You've made a bigger hit than even I expected.
"Old Hapsburg Castle is a mere hawks' crag, as its name implies, and the half-score of mountain peaks my father lost with it are not worth the life of his humblest subject. He loves his people, and would not shed their blood to soothe his wounded pride. The man who makes war should fight in the front rank." "There is where I fight, young sir," returned Charles.
The English, joined to the Dutch, the original settlers, were the dominant population; but a half-score of other languages were spoken in the province, the chief among them being that of the Huguenot French in the southern parts, and that of the Germans on the Mohawk.
To all appearance, in ten minutes more both will be dangling at the end of a rope suspended from a limb of a tree. They are saved by a circumstance for them at least lucky, if unfortunate for some others. Just as a half-score of the Rangers have clumped together under a spreading pecan-tree, intending to hang them upon one of its branches, a horse is heard to neigh.
When Miss Rebecca Sharp wrote to her beloved friend the account of the little ball at Queen's Crawley, and the manner in which, for the first time, Captain Crawley had distinguished her, she did not, strange to relate, give an altogether accurate account of the transaction. The Captain had distinguished her a great number of times before. The Captain had met her in a half-score of walks.
Up the Valley and down it, from Tuxedo to Ridgewood, there had been a half-score robberies of a very different order depredations wrought, manifestly, by professionals; thieves whose motor cars served the twentieth century purpose of such historic steeds as Dick Turpin's Black Bess and Jack Shepard's Ranter.
'But hit him you certainly did, Redmond, and with a fine thick plugget of tow; and the fellow was so frightened, that he was an hour in coming to. We told your mother the story afterwards, and a pretty scene she made; she despatched a half-score of letters to Dublin after you, but I suppose addressed them to you in your real name, by which you never thought to ask for them.
No; it is a bundle of envelopes, bearing the head of Minerva, some sealing-wax, and a half-score of pens. Let us imagine how in the hall of one or other of these Clubs this strange anecdote will be discussed. "Notorious screw," says Sneer. "The poor old fellow's avarice has long been known." "Suppose he wishes to imitate the Duke of Marlborough," says Simper.
Just below them, and scarcely fifty feet away, a half-score of roughly clad, heavily bearded men were clustered in the centre of the trail, two of their number lifting the unconscious form of a fainting woman upon a horse. "Cervera's gang, by gosh!" panted the leading savage. "How did they git yere?" "You bet! She's up agin the real thing," ejaculated a voice beside him.
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