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He seized his horse's bridle, where it was over the paling, and in a moment had him tied on the off-side of Barney, then stepping quietly into the buggy he put me away from the driver's seat as though I were a baby, quietly took the reins and whip, raised his hat to Mrs Butler, who was smiling knowingly, and drove off.
An archway across, surmounted by a stone escutcheon, bore the Clifford crest, so there was no doubt that they had reached their destination. The gates were padlocked together, and the blinds were drawn in the lodge; evidently the keeper was not an early bird. "How are we going to get in?" asked Diana. "Not here, certainly. We'll go back to that oak paling, and climb over.
"And in this statement, captain," he said, "you have sworn that der voyage was uneventful up to der moment of der wreck that is," he added, with an oily smile, as he noticed the paling of the captain's face "that nothing occurred to make der Titan less seaworthy or manageable?" "That is what I swore to," said the captain, with a little sigh. "You are part owner, are you not, Captain Bryce?"
It is not a large plot of ground, and perhaps looks unduly small by reason of being packed in by a high paling, made of the staves of wrecked barrels and designed to keep the sand and grit from blowing across it.
A hole had been bored in either end, near the upper corner, and through each of these a stout cord had been passed and tied into a loop, which, being slipped over a paling, one on each side the gate, left the board swinging before it so as effectually to bar its opening unless the board were first removed.
He saw a pale, almost unearthly, yet beautiful face, flushing and paling with a coming agony, looking up at him; and presently two trembling hands made those mystic signs which are the primal language of the soul. Hilton interpreted to him this: "I have sent for you. There is no man so big or strong as you in the north. I did not know that I should ever ask you to redeem the note.
Jack Benson turned, fixing his gaze upon Don's face Jack's look was full of contempt, though he spoke no word. "Don't try any impudent airs on me," warned Don, flushing, then paling, as his fists doubled. "Mr. Melville," broke in Jacob Farnum, returning, while David Pollard remained where he was, looking out of the window, "I think we can cut this scene very short.
For a moment, silence. Then, not so resonant but still clearly audible, for both men had voices that "carried" and were used to command: "Come in, if you will. Can't come out!" "I can't without leaving my convoy," was the return shout, but as Willett glanced down into the lovely face so near his shoulder, he found it paling just a bit, and troubled, not rejoiceful. "What is it, sweet?
He had also shut up with paling, curiously twisted with furze, certain holes in the fences adjoining, through which the gipsy boys used to scramble into the plantations to gather birds' nests, the seniors of the village to make a short cut from one point to another, and the lads and lasses for evening rendezvous all without offence taken or leave asked.
And if ever the victorious power of His Church seems to be almost paling to defeat, and His servants to be working no deliverance upon the earth, the cause is not to be found in Him who is 'without variableness, nor in His gifts, which are 'without repentance, but solely in us, who let go our hold of the Eternal Might.
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