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Updated: June 13, 2025
English aristocracy ambles on in an inevitable path, high banked by centuries but the Virginian hath leaped the hurdle of the ocean and still retained its coronet; which proves that it was fashioned in eternity after the express pattern of their patrician heads.
I had got over the first hurdle. But there was no time to be lost. Stumm would meet the postman and would be tearing after me any minute. I took the first turning, and bucketed along a narrow woodland road. The hard ground would show very few tracks, I thought, and I hoped the pursuit would think I had gone on to Schwandorf.
The old fellow had squared his jaws belligerently at this statement. "You have nothing against me personally, I mean?" "Nothing." "She loves me." "She seems to. But both of you are young and may get over it before you reach the last hurdle." "Then you forbid it?" Boyd had queried, his own glance challenging that of her father. "By no means. I neither forbid nor consent.
No matter what, Charles Maxwell had neatly trapped her into staying by turning her own maternal responsibility against her. "I'll get my bags," she said. James Holden took a deep breath. He'd won this hurdle, so far so good. Now for the next! Mrs. Bagley found life rather unhurried in the days that followed. She relaxed and tried to evaluate James Holden.
Bertrand had none, however, and could denounce none. A frantic sentence was then devised as a feeble punishment for so much wickedness. He was dragged on a hurdle, with his mouth closed with an iron gag, to the market-place. Here his right hand and foot were burned and twisted off between two red-hot irons.
If the water is taken from a stream, a leaf screen must be placed at some distance in front of the inlet. This may be made of a hurdle fastened to strong stakes sunk into the bed of the stream.
From scrubbing floors and lighting fires, cooking, gardening, and harnessing the pony, I grew thinner than ever as thin as a whipping-post, a hurdle, or a haddock! I went to church in blue-and-white cotton, with my servant in silk. "I don't half like it," she said. "They'll take you for the cook, and me for the lady!"
In the present case a pyre, some twelve feet high, was built at the foot of a huge granite boulder, near the sea-coast: it was constructed of dry wood, and was drenched with combustible materials. Jean was bound firmly to a strong hurdle, made of birch stems and withies securely lashed together.
And surely it was a droll malignity of Fate to bring him here to her whom, in this moment of all moments in his life, he wished far away. Fate meant to try him to the uttermost. This hurdle of trial was high indeed. "Two thousand dollars nothing less?" she inquired gaily. "You are too specific for a real lover." "Fate fixed the amount," he added drily.
Sure enough, the sight of the dead body on the hurdle shook Miss Belcher's nerve not at all, or, at any rate, not discernibly. "Humph!" she said. "Take him to the pavilion and cover him decently. You'll find a yard or two of clean awning in the left-hand corner of the scoring-box." She eyed Mr. Goodfellow for a couple of seconds and swung round upon Mr. Rogers. "Is that the man you've arrested?"
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