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Updated: May 9, 2025
Not a living thing was in sight. The only movement was the flying shadows of the white clouds over the prairie, and the waving of the deep, rich grass when a vagrant breeze swept by. But suddenly Ted pulled in his pony, and shaded his eyes with his hand, staring into the west. "What is it?" asked Stella, reining in.
Once or twice as he rode on in the declining afternoon he muttered to himself. Now it was: "My Lord Rippingdale, indeed!" or "Not even for a King!" or "Sir John Enderby, forsooth! Sir John Enderby, forsooth!" Once again he spoke, reining in his horse beside a tall cross at four corners, near Stickford by the East Fen.
It was Colonel Harding. "These fellows, gentlemen," cried he, reining up his horse, "just came in time to relieve me from a disagreeable duty. I have orders from the commander-in-chief to arrest Captains Haller and Ransom.
The designs purport to represent the Duke's battles and sieges; and everywhere we see the hero himself, as large as life, and as gorgeous in scarlet and gold as the holy sisters could make him, with a three-cornered hat and flowing wig, reining in his horse, and extending his leading-staff in the attitude of command. Next to Marlborough, Prince Eugene is the most prominent figure.
Sherbrooke said nothing, but rode on quietly, while the stranger, still reining in his horse, pursued the high road by the traveller's side. "It is a very dark night," said the stranger, after a minute or two's silence. "A very dark night, indeed!" replied Sherbrooke, and the conversation again ended there.
"Damn you, sir, I'll show you what I mean! Come out from behind those trees and fight like men!" "Ay, and be killed for our pains!" cried Waggoner. "What, sir!" and the general's face turned purple. "You dare dispute my order?" and he raised his sword to strike, but his arm was caught before it had descended. "These men know best, sir," cried Washington, reining in his horse beside him.
I thought he drew a quick breath as from surprise, and there was a moment's hesitancy. "Let out the ropes a trifle, Peter," came the final order. The little bald-headed man went at it without a word, the lieutenant reining back his horse slightly, and drawing his hat lower over his eyes.
As he saw the group of people moving towards him, looking shadowy and dim in the darkness, his heart stood still. Were they bearing home Hetty's body? Would he see it presently, lying lifeless and cold in their arms? He dashed among them, reining his horse back on his haunches, and looking with a silent anguish into face after face. Nobody spoke. That first instant seemed a century long.
The horses were saddled without loss of time, and in two or three minutes Jack was trotting down the village in the midst of the French cavalry amid a scathing fire from behind the houses and walls. The French officer rode at the head of his troop till well beyond the village, then reining in his horse, joined his prisoner. "And now," he asked, "whom have I the honor of capturing?"
Even when she was going to get the boudoir done with apple-green picked out with mauve, enough to set one's teeth on edge, and Marilda would do nothing but laugh, she let me persuade her into a lovely pale sea-green. 'Is not sea-green too delicate for her? asked Cherry. 'Why, it was very wicked of Edgar, to be sure, but he said that it was to suit the nymph reining in the porpoises.
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