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And just beside him was the ladder going straight down into the stable, up which his father always came to fetch the hay for Diamond's dinner. Through the opening in the floor the faint gleam of the-stable lantern was enticing, and Diamond thought he would run down that way. The stair went close past the loose-box in which Diamond the horse lived.
Excitement and the fire of very strong wines, of whose vintage brandy formed a large part, had made him voluble in exultation; the monosyllabic sententiousness that had characterized him in the loose-box at Royallieu had been dissipated under the ardor of success; and Ben Davis, with his legs on the table, a pipe between his teeth, and his bloated face purple with a brutal contentment, might have furnished to a Teniers the personification of culminated cunning and of delighted tyranny.
It suddenly occurs to me that I have forgotten to say how Edward met his death. You remember that peace had descended upon the house; that Leonora was quietly triumphant and that Edward said his love for the girl had been merely a passing phase. Well, one afternoon we were in the stables together, looking at a new kind of flooring that Edward was trying in a loose-box.
Then he saw a light shine beneath the crack of the second door, beside the loose-box, that led into the farm-yard proper; and the next instant the door opened, a man came in with a lantern obviously just lighted, as the flame was not yet burned up, and stopped with a half-frightened look on seeing Frank. But he said nothing.
Monkey Brand was nodding on an upturned bucket. As the fat man entered the loose-box, the great horse turned a shining eye on him and whinnied. Monkey blinked, stirred, and grunted: "'Ello!" He smelt strongly of whiskey. The tout, unheeding him, produced a twitch. But Monkey rose with heavy eyes and jerked it irritably out of the other's hand. "None o' that," he said.
Then he limped away down the gangway, behind sleeping horses, into the loose-box at the end where stood Four-Pound-the-Second. Carefully he closed the door behind the young man and put his lantern down. "See, you thought I was on the crook, didn't you, sir?" he said ironically, pursing his eye-lids. "So you are," replied the young man. Monkey wagged his head sententiously.
And so it is not by your virtuous inclinations that you have hitherto been excluded from this festive scene?" "No, sir," said Crayshaw with farcical meekness of voice and air, "quite the contrary. It was that I've met with a serious accident. I've been run over." John looked aghast. "You surely have not been into the loose-box," he said anxiously.
"I reck'n they've took a couple o' million off of him since Christmas," he said, returning to the subject which he could not leave. "And I got to get it back for him." "Indeed?" said Cherry ironically. "'Ow? Tellin' lies and gettin' paid for 'em?" Albert opened the door of a loose-box and pointed dramatically. Cherry stared at the brown horse within.
The light that he carried threw heavy wavering shadows about the stable, and Frank noticed the great head of a cart-horse in the loose-box peering through the bars, as if to inquire what the company wanted. Then, still without speaking, Frank let his eyes rove round, and they stopped suddenly at the sight of yet one more living being in the stable.
As for the rest, I'm an old man older nor I can recollect. All I asks is to lay down and die quiet and peaceable with nothin' on me conscience only last night's cheese." The Loose-box Next night Boy Woodburn was unusually late to bed. Sunday nights she always devoted to preparing the Bible-lesson for next week.
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