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Thus they stood a moment; and when he saw their number, back to Gold- mane's heart came the thought of those folk on the Mountain: for indeed he was somewhat out of himself for doubt and longing, else would he have deemed that all this was but a Yule-tide play.
And with this Mane's head dropped forward, and she was asleep. It seemed a pity to wake her when supper was ready, but Abby knew just how good her rolls were, and knew that the child must be famished; and sure enough, after a little nap, Marie was ready to wake and sit up at the little round table, and be fed like a baby with everything good that Abby could think of.
"Why, why," he shouted, "he's getting shinier every minute and his mane's growing longer and longer." From that moment he regarded Hugh as a man and a brother. But Lynn had got to business. "No," she said when offered a chair "oh, no, thank you, we can't stay Miss Bibby doesn't know we've come. But will you please deal with Larkin?" "Deal with Larkin?" Hugh repeated.
And did you say anything about an old priest? I saw him leaning over the side of the boat and slipping something into Mane's sack." "No," said Jessie, "I didn't tell you any of that, though it all happened as you say. Let us go home, Jack, it frightens me terribly. Oh, I wish you hadn't bought that Marsh!" and she clung trembling to the young man's arm.
After the unfortunate man had been led away, one of his comrades chanted an impromptu couplet lamenting his fate, whereat the Emperor, relenting, bade a messenger gallop off on "a black horse of Kai" to stay the execution. The mandate of mercy arrived just in time, and when Mane's bonds were loosed, he, too, improvised a verse: "Black as the night "Was the horse of Kai.
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