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Updated: July 17, 2025
We were in the rags of beggary, prideless in the dust, and yet I was laughing heartily at some mumbled merry quip of the Lady Om when a shadow fell upon us. It was the great litter of Chong Mong-ju, borne by eight coolies, with outriders before and behind and fluttering attendants on either side.
"Ah!" said Madame Dépine, impressed beyond masking-point, "I suppose when one has had the habit of Courts " Madame Valière shuddered unexpectedly. "Let us not speak of it. Take a fig." But Madame Dépine persisted though she took the fig. "Ah! those were brave days when we had still an Emperor and an Empress to drive to the Bois with their equipages and outriders. Ah, how pretty it was!"
Besides, I'm sending Theodore and Glenn on horseback as a bodyguard. Las Palomas is putting her best foot forward this morning in giving you a stylish turnout, with outriders in their Sunday livery. And those two boys are the best ropers on the ranch, so if the mules run off just give one of your long, keen screams, and the boys will rope and hog-tie every mule in the team.
"What has happened?" cried she of the equerry, who at that moment sprang to the side of the caleche. "Your majesty, a child has just run across the road, and has been snatched from under the horses' feet." "A child!" exclaimed the queen, starting from her seat. "Is it killed?" "No, your majesty. It is luckily unhurt. The coachman reined up his horses in time for one of the outriders to save it.
Now it was a mere blotch moving in the sun and dust; then clearer; and then out of the cloud of light, flying sand came the clatter of hoofs on the pavement, the whir of wheels, and ahead of the rest of the party two dark Numidian outriders in bright red mantles appeared, pricking along their white African steeds.
The robbers had at last quite overmatched the four outriders, and having bound the only one of them that had sufficient life left to make him dangerous to them, they turned their steps once more towards the volante.
After giving the Queen's sanction to what was called by a certain party "The Rebel Indemnity Bill," he rushed into one door and out of another, when this Peer of the Realm, in all the dignity of coach and four, postillions and outriders, was pelted with rotten eggs and other unpleasant missiles.
Undoubtedly he might have some dazzling explanation ready, but that explanation they two must first get of him before she should know that her dead was risen. Our travellers were minus their outriders now.
In a couple of days the wagon train would head on north to Tucson, but now the activity in the plaza was a mixture of market day and fiesta. Small traders from Sonora took advantage of the protection afforded by Don Cazar’s outriders and had trailed along with their own products, now being spread out and hawked.
He drove his ikkipage hisself; and it was always hauled by four beautiful white horses, and two outriders rode in harness bridles. There was a groom behind him, and another at the rubbing-post, all in livery as glorious as New Jerusalem. What a 'stablishment he kept up at that time!
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