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The stranger had remounted; and then, looking the brothers steadily in the face, he made a low bow, and with the words, "Good-evening, gentlemen; I wish you a safe and pleasant journey home," turned round, and trotted briskly away. "Did you notice that man's face?" asked Amos of his brother in a half whisper. "Should you know it again?" "Anywhere all the world over," was the reply.
Barney and the girl remounted and the little cavalcade moved forward through the ballium and the great gate into the court beyond. "Did you notice," said Barney to the princess, "that even he believes me to be the king? I cannot fathom it." Within the castle they were met by a number of servants and soldiers.
Rab, she realized worriedly, could not slide up that narrow, rock-bottomed cleft down which he had coasted so readily. "They must be devil horses that ride this way, Rab," she sighed when she had remounted on the lower margin of the shale. "And the Lorrigans na doot have magic. But I dinna think that even they could run away down it." She struck Rab sharply with the quirt and dug in her heels.
Finn had scorned to pursue his fallen foe, but it would have been better for him if he had had less pride. The fan-shaped line of watching dingoes closed in a little as Lupus remounted the rocky ledge, with a blood-curdling snarl and an awe-inspiring exposure of his gleaming fangs.
He remounted the stairs, and she drew him into their room. Her face was radiant, her eyes blazed with light as she looked at him. "I have something to tell you, Sahib! I could not let you go without saying it. Only think! is not Allah good to me? I am to be the mother of the Sahib's child," and she fell on her knees, kissing his hands in a passion of joy. Hamilton stood for the moment silent.
The stream was just what Will predicted it would be, a foot of sand and an inch of water, but it was only slightly brackish, and both horses and horsemen drank freely from it, took a rest and then drank as freely again. Another half hour and the two remounted.
The sheriff's posse accompanied my brother to the wagon, and after refreshing themselves, remounted their horses. Bob escorted them back across the summit of the mesa, and the olive branch waved in peace on the divide. The morning was not far advanced. After a brief consultation, the two older foremen urged that we ride to the relief of Forrest.
At the head of the valley Traveller fell dead, and I feared every moment that we should lose the Colt. At one I stopped to rest the horses till dawn, and then remounted, but Morgan and Mack got slowly on, so that I thought it better to precede them, and if possible to take some water back to moisten the mouth of their horses, and I accordingly went in advance with Mr. Stuart.
The colonel, of course, in obedience to orders from the grand prevot, Monsieur de Courtornieu. He sent the order last night. We have been hidden in that grove since daybreak. But release me tonnerre! would you have my expedition fail entirely?" He hurried away, and Martial, staggering like a drunken man, descended the slope, and remounted his horse.
Then he remounted and was about to ride onward, when his eyes fell on a handsome young man, well dressed and elegantly made, with flower-white forehead and face brilliant as the moon, save that his beauty was wasted and that pallor had invaded his cheeks by reason of separation from those he loved: sighing and lamentation were grievous upon him and the tears streamed from his eyelids, as he repeated the following verses: Absence is long and care and fear are heavy on my soul, Whilst from mine eyes the tears, O friend, without cessation roll.
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