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I was practically through with the horse, anyway, and it will be no trouble at all to drive by your place and get him to-morrow." "I can lead him up " Mary Hope began, but Lance had already turned the horse and started him up the Slide, so there was nothing for her to do but follow. At the top she gave him the money bag, which he took without any words whatever on the subject.
An old writer thus describes a water tournament, which seems to have been a popular pastime among the youths of London at Easter "They fight battels on the water. A boat is prepared without oars, to be carried by the violence of the water, and in the fore-part thereof standeth a young man ready to give charge upon the shield with his lance.
"Proud Briton," replied the Frank, "I have received thy present, and I am going to give thee mine." He dug both spurs into his horse's sides, and galloped down upon Morvan, who, clad though he was in a coat of mail, fell pierced by the thrust of a lance.
"I noticed you hanging round on the edge of things. You ought to have gone straight on." Roy winced. "We'd heard wild rumours. She was anxious about the D.C." Lance nodded, staring at the bowl of his pipe. "When does Mrs Elton make a move?" "The first possible instant I should say, from the look of her." "Good. She's on the right tack, for once!
"Oh, Mr Evelin, tell me: What has led you to think so?" "I will," answered Lance. "But I hope the idea is not very distressing to you. It is true that the lad's present position is well, not perhaps exactly worthy of the cousin of " "Oh no; do not say that, Mr Evelin, I beg," interrupted Blanche. "I was not thinking of that in the least.
He had scarcely disappeared in the gloom when Dale, who had volunteered to keep a look-out, gave warning of the approach of two boats the launch and the pinnace full of men. They were observed almost at the same moment by Lance, who hailed: "Schooner ahoy! Do you see the boats coming?" "Ay, ay," answered Captain Staunton. "We see them, and we'll give them a warm reception presently."
"No," said Flip, dropping her eyes. "It's to keep other people from knowing you. You're hidin' agin." "I am," returned Lance; "but," he interrupted, "it's only the same old thing." "But you wrote from Monterey that it was all over," she persisted. "So it would have been," he said gloomily, "but for some dog down here who is hunting up an old scent.
"Hear me!" he repeated, bending forward until his lips almost touched his companion's ear, and the veins swelled in his throat and temples: "I have toiled and sighed and prayed for this! Day after day, night after night, for years, this has been the aim of all my actions, ay, even the limit of my aspirations. Once to be king oh! ever since I first clutched a lance I panted for it!
His body was pierced with thirty-two lance wounds; thus he had fought gallantly to the last, and he had died like a good soldier; but he was treacherously murdered instead of dying on a fair battle-field. Poor Ferritch Baggara was lying next to him, with two lance wounds through the chest.
But if the cavalry is armed with the lance, the fast trot is the proper gait, since the advantageous use of that weapon depends upon the preservation of good order: in a mêlée the lance is almost useless. If the enemy advances at a fast trot, it does not seem prudent to gallop to meet him; for the galloping party will be much disordered, while the trotting party will not.
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