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Updated: May 28, 2025
Boy had stripped off her long riding-coat and sat on the tall Silvertail, a slight figure in breeches and boots, her white shirt fluttering in the wind, her face calm and resolute. Mat kicked his pony forward. "Four-mile spin and let him spread himself," he grunted. "I want to see him move to-day. And you, Jerry, ride that Lollypop out. He'll save himself if you'll let him.
Jefferson, who was over six feet was enveloped in a light riding-coat with short capes over the shoulders, which, when he threw it off, disclosed to view the uniform of a major-general of continental dragoons.
As to Lousteau, the wretch had assumed his war-paint patent leather boots, trousers of English kerseymere with pleats in front, a very open waistcoat showing a particularly fine shirt and the black brocade waterfall of his handsome cravat, and a very thin, very short black riding-coat.
He was in the centre of the band, a very young man, perhaps twenty or twenty-one, of most splendid presence, sitting his horse superbly. He wore a grey riding-coat, and was a head taller than any of his companions. There was pride in the very air with which his horse bore him. I did not need to ask Pavannes who he was.
Having set down the candle, the highwayman drew a dingy blanket before the cave mouth and turned to scowl at me, eyeing my shrinking person over from dripping hat to sodden boots; and well might I shrink, for surely few waking eyes have beheld such a wild and terrifying vision as he presented, his battered face, his garments mired and torn, his hands hidden in the pockets of his riding-coat.
"Then you're the Gentleman." The young man bowed with an action that was altogether French. He stood bareheaded in the sun in long black riding-coat and muddied boots and breeches. "What's that red riband in your button-hole?" asked the boy in a kind of awe. "That! that's the Legion of Honour." He came a step forward. "Put your finger on it.
"Then they broke. They couldn't run: I could. I would have spared them, mud that they were but for her. "You see," his voice was still again, "I loved her." He dreamed, his eyes upon the hills. "Yes," he said, "I was terrible." The Gentleman led up the shoulder of the hill, the tails of his long riding-coat flapping about his legs.
Then, with sincere expressions of gratitude, he frankly accepted it. The judge rang a bell and ordered Mahomet saddled and brought around for Mr. Worth, and a groom's horse for his servant. Ishmael put on his riding-coat and took his hat and gloves. When the horses were announced, Ishmael went and shook hands with his host.
Again John waited leisurely until the observation had thoroughly penetrated to his brain, and then replying, 'No offence as YET, applied a light to his pipe and smoked in placid silence; now and then casting a sidelong look at a man wrapped in a loose riding-coat with huge cuffs ornamented with tarnished silver lace and large metal buttons, who sat apart from the regular frequenters of the house, and wearing a hat flapped over his face, which was still further shaded by the hand on which his forehead rested, looked unsociable enough.
The Bailie, to whom I suppose fear had given a temporary share of agility, had ascended about twenty feet from the path, when his foot slipping, as he straddled from one huge fragment of rock to another, he would have slumbered with his father the deacon, whose acts and words he was so fond of quoting, but for a projecting branch of a ragged thorn, which, catching hold of the skirts of his riding-coat, supported him in mid-air, where he dangled not unlike to the sign of the Golden Fleece over the door of a mercer in the Trongate of his native city.
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