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Should I have waited while they arrested me?" "Oh! You managed to evade them, did you?" "At least I am here, sahib!" The general chewed at his mustache, leaned his chair back against the wall and tapped at his boot with a riding-cane. "Tell me, Juggut Khan," he said after another minute's thought, "what is your idea? Is this sporadic? Is this a local outbreak?
Of the parades which his horse, catching the infection, made under him, as he tossed his riding-cane high in the air and caught it? Ay, what? Why, when he had suffered so great a loss, when he had been robbed of that of which he must give account why did he cast off his melancholy and ride like the youngest?
A snake wound his undulating way across the open space, passing close by me, and I was fool enough to scream. The Captain killed the creature with his riding-cane, taking a pleasure in doing it which I did not like to see. We left the clearing and tried another path, and then another. And still the horrid wood preyed on my spirits.
He turned round this time to look at the speaker, and confronted a wizen, flaxen-haired, sharp-faced man, dressed in a jaunty shooting-jacket, carrying a riding-cane in his hand, and having a thorough-bred black-and-tan terrier in attendance at his heels. "Excuse me asking the question," said the wizen man; "but I noticed how dumbfoundered you were when you saw the coffin come out.
'But who are these, M. Fresnoy? and I pointed with my riding-cane to his four companions. He tried to pass the matter off with a laugh. 'Oh! these? he said. 'That is soon explained. The Evangelists would not be divided, so I brought them all Matthew Mark, Luke, and John thinking it likely you might fail to secure your men.
This a Northern gentleman's home, with its cobwebbed ceiling, its little window-panes opaque with stain of rain and dust, its carpetless floors innocent of wax, littered with odds and ends here a battered riding-cane; there a pair of tarnished spurs; yonder a scarlet hunting-coat a-trail on the banisters, with skirts all mud from feet that mayhap had used it as a mat in rainy weather!
But a moment later they had ceased to regard him; for from the archway, with the torch-bearer beside him, advanced the tall man with the riding-cane who had been the first to enter; and as he emerged into the court Chris recognised his brother. He was in a plain rich riding-suit with great boots and plumed hat.
It was her daughter. I never saw her so close before, and the look of her almost gave me a stroke. It was what I felt when I first saw her mother with a younger man than you or I. Just like that I met them in the gloaming, with Turner very jaunty at her side, rapping his leg with his riding-cane, half a head higher than myself, a generation less in years. It was a cursed bitter pill, Dugald!
Without a moment's hesitation I stepped to the nearest fellow and, with a sturdy kick, sent his log from under him. 'Rise, you rascal, when I enter! I cried, giving vent to the anger I had long felt. 'And you, too! and with a second kick I sent his neighbour's stool flying also, and administered a couple of cuts with my riding-cane across the man's shoulders. 'Have you no manners, sirrah?
In that same moment Sergeant Moore stepped forward, with a hoarse cry: "Here, damme!" he shouted at O'Malley, "you'd better haul off your captain's dog, or or mine'll kill him!" And with a resounding thwack he brought his riding-cane down across Jan's forehead.
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