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A night-ride through the golden tropical forest, when the moon is bathing its broad and wax-like frondage when the winds are hushed and the long leaves hang drooping and silent when the paths conduct through dark aisles and arbours of green vine-leaves, and out again into bright and flowery glades is one of those luxuries that I wish we could obtain without going beyond the limits of our own land.
Many conflicting emotions took possession of her as she neared the summit. After tonight she would no longer be Tessibel Skinner, but Frederick's wife, and he, her husband, her own forever and forever. This night-ride would be her cherished secret until Frederick gave her permission to tell Daddy Skinner until the whole world should know.
I locked 'em both in, sir. Shure they couldn't take the lootenant's horse without his knowin' it, sir." Ray took the key and hobbled out to his back door, simply telling Hogan to come with him. He was thunderstruck at the idea of their taking Dandy from him. He never thought of that as a possibility Dandy, who seemed after that wild night-ride to be part of himself.
The two took their seats in silence, and silently pursued their way through the streets of the old dimly-lighted city and out of one of its principal gates to the wide Campagna beyond. The villa of the Princess was situated on an eminence at some distance from the city, and the night-ride to it was solemn and solitary.
And who were they that should undertake to bring beauty, strength, and order out of all this ruin and desolation? A small and despised remnant of a once powerful people straggling back, as it might seem, in handfuls, from their seventy years' captivity. Follow Nehemiah in his lonely night-ride as he makes his solitary circuit around the broken walls.
Terror, blood, Diodoros wounded, Andreas, the ass on which she had ridden that night, were the images which first crowded on her awakening spirit in bewildering confusion. She had heard that piercing ring of smitten brass in the Serapeum. Was she still there? Had she only dreamed of that night-ride with her wounded lover?
Burr interrupted the conversation to pay them the compliments of the morning, to inquire for their health, and hope they suffered no inconvenience from their night-ride from the party; then, seeing the Doctor still looking eager to go on, he contrived with gentle dexterity to tie again the broken thread of conversation.
On either side only a few of the buttes were still visible. They stood out in the moonlight as cleanly cut as the bows of great battleships. The trail at last was level. Mrs. Truesdall's eyes closed. Her head fell forward. But Miss Post, weary as she was in body, could not sleep. To her the night-ride was full of strange and wonderful mysteries.
Once, Dan began a series of eager questions about the house and farm, and the servants and the neighbors, but his mother's answers were hesitant and he stopped short. She, too, asked but few questions, and the three were quiet while the train rolled on with little more speed than Chad and Dixie had made on that long ago night-ride to save Dan and Rebel Jerry.
Then the hall-door was flung open, and both Ericson and Helena saw by the scared faces of the two men who stood in the hall that something had happened since the Dictator and she had gone out on their short wild night-ride. 'What has gone wrong, Frederick? Helena asked eagerly. 'Oh please, Miss, Mr. Rivers Miss 'Yes, Frederick, Mr. Rivers 'Please, Miss, poor Mr. Rivers he is killed!
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