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The pale oval of Dorothy's face rose before me and the troubled depths of her blue eyes. And I heard once more the tremble in her voice as she confessed, in words of which she took no heed, that love for which I had sought in vain. The summer dusk was gathering. Outside, under the cherry trees, I saw Banks holding forth to an admiring circle of negro 'ostlers. And presently Mr.
Inside, sporting gentlemen in hunting-frocks of red and green, and velvet visored caps, were shouldering favoured 'ostlers from the different noblemen's stables; and there was a liberal sprinkling of the characters who attended the cock mains in Drury Lane and at Newmarket. At the moment of my arrival the head 'ostler was rubbing down the stallion's flank.
Indeed, as the galloping horses of the incoming vehicle pulled out of the hanging dust in the distance, the solitary driver could be seen urging on his team. In a few moments more they had halted at the lower end of the station. "Wonder what's up!" said the mail agent. "Nothin'! Only a big Injin scare at Pine Barrens," said one of the ostlers.
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Ostlers cannot endure him, for he is of the infantry, and serves best on foot. He offends not the statute against the excess of apparel, for he will go naked, and counts it a voluntary penance. Forty of them lie together in a barn, yet are never sued upon the Statute of Inmates. If he were learned no man could make a better description of England, for he hath travelled it over and over.
He ain't a kind 'oss never 'aving been understood, d' ye see; but take my word for it, 'e's a wonder, that 'oss!" "You know him, perhaps?" "Since 'e were foaled, sir. I was stud-groom; but folks think I'm too old for the job, d' ye see, sir?" "Do you think he 'd remember you?" "Ay, that 'e would!" "Do you suppose look at him! do you suppose you could hold him quieter than those ostlers?"
He did not appear on the box again for a week, and never held up his head afterwards. Reaching Horncastle at last, I managed to get quarters for myself and horse, and, by making friends with the ostlers and others, picked up more hints.
But before Barnabas could answer, the great, black horse, tired of comparative inaction, began again to snort and rear, and jerk his proud head viciously, whereupon the two ostlers fell to swearing, and the Viscount's bays at the other end of the yard to capering, and the Viscount's small groom to anathematizing, all in a moment.
Overton was waiting at the chaise-door, the boys were ready mounted, and a few ostlers and stable nondescripts were standing round to witness the departure of ‘the mad gentleman.’ Mr. ‘Who’s that?’ he inquired of Overton, in a whisper. ‘Hush, hush,’ replied the mayor: ‘the other party of course.’ ‘The other party!’ exclaimed Trott, with an effort to retreat.
From this inn, he despatched, one by one, at brief intervals, three horses, each to a different inn along the Egmont highway. He gave instructions to the ostlers who rode them to wait outside the inns named till the gentlemen called for them. He got the third horse off, in this quiet way, at the end of about an hour. I have heard that it was a book on the training of horses to do tricks.
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