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A cloud came to Mahon's face. "Not exactly the contractors who got them, but there was no doubt where they went." "I always regretted we had to hand over the search just there to a Division that knows little about ranch horses," murmured the Inspector. "Still perhaps " He stopped and shifted the letter he held from one hand to the other, as if weighing it. "We'd have made short work of it, sir."
In the dim fringe he made out the figure of a tall man leaning toward him, a pair of Indian braids falling over his shoulders. Mahon's eyes moved on to the horse. He started, and his teeth clicked. Surely there was something familiar. . . . But his brain was tumbling madly he would not trust it.
And the pinto tore to shreds the rule of a lifetime: she clambered to her feet without orders and reached up to nibble at the edge of Mahon's Stetson. The Sergeant threw an arm about her neck and pressed his face to the yellow blotch below the left eye. . . . As the evening shadows from the Hills lay long across the prairie, and the birds chirped sleepily, Mahon stood up with a sigh.
Now Nancy Gallaher saw this, and having drawn the established conclusion that there must in some way be a lover in the case, she sat down in form before the fortress of Alley Mahon's secret, with a firm determination to make herself mistress of it, if the feat were at all practicable.
The cord by which it was suspended snapped; the dainty bit of bric-a-brac sped across the room, and, striking with full force against a mirror in a quaint old secretary that had belonged to Mr. Mahon's uncle, shivered the glass to pieces. Instantly every trace of color fled from her face, and she stood appalled, gazing at the mischief she had done.
"I cannot but pause for a moment," says he, "to observe how much the course of a century has inverted the meaning of our party nicknames, how much a modern Tory resembles a Whig of Queen Anne's reign, and a Tory of Queen Anne's reign a modern Whig." We grant one half of Lord Mahon's proposition: from the other half we altogether dissent.
Bringing back his squadron almost within view of Toulon, he thought he saw Mahon's English fleet making straight for him, and as the struggle threatened to be unequal he returned into the harbor of Toulon.
He was smiling at him a twisted, awkward smile of embarrassed affection. Mahon's lips parted, but he could not speak. With unsteady hand he quieted the impatient horse blinking incredulously.
Boswell has not let us see this caution. The next day we read that 'he fluently harangued to Dr. See ante, iii. 366. He was Ambassador at Paris in the beginning of the reign of George I., and Commander-in-Chief in 1744. Lord Mahon's England, ed. 1836, i. 201 and iii. 275. The unwilling gratitude of base mankind. Dr.
His eye was clear, his tongue was no longer thick, and he had strength enough to smile at me and to stammer, "Vic-to-ry!" "Yes, Colonel, a great victory!" And the more details I gave him of Mac Mahon's brilliant success, the more his face relaxed and brightened. As I left, I found the little girl waiting for me outside the door. She was pale and was crying.
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