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Updated: June 29, 2025
Suddenly, with a shock, she felt another hand close upon it, while the words, "my darling!" vibrated upon her ear; the voice was so close that it seemed to touch her cheek. She started as if she had been stung. "Oh, my riding-crop!" she cried, letting the handle slip from her grasp. "I beg your pardon," Stephen gasped, in a low, pained tone. "If you will wait an instant, I will get it for you!"
I gathered up my gloves and riding-crop. I believed that I had extricated myself rather well. "This is my castle," said Gretchen, gently shaking off the warning hand of her companion. "If I desire to occupy it for a night, who shall gainsay me? If I leave the latches down, that is due to the fact that I have no one to fear.
Oh, I like the breed! 'I wonder, said she, in a tone of preposterous melancholy, 'if eventually I have to marry one of them. 'Not necessarily, I said. She looked at me with interest, as if I had contributed importantly to the matter in hand, and resumed tapping her boot with her riding-crop. We talked of indifferent things and had long lapses.
He saw the lord make ready to strike him, saw his distorted face, saw the riding-crop flash through the air, and even saw it descending upon him. But he did not feel the short, hard blow on his back. With one bound he ripped the hunting-knife out of the scabbard and thrust it between the lord's ribs not with a long sweep, so that some one could have stayed his arm before he struck. Oh, no!
Miss Lou claimed Pasha for her very own at first sight. As no one at Gray Oaks denied Miss Lou anything at all, to her he belonged from that instant. Of Miss Lou, Pasha approved thoroughly. She knew that bridle-reins were for gentle guidance, not for sawing or jerking, and that a riding-crop was of no use whatever save to unlatch a gate or to cut at an unruly hound.
Fiercely he flung himself off his horse and threw the reins over the Vicarage gate-post. Then, riding-crop in hand, he approached the swaying fighting animals. It was like a ghastly wrestling-match. Both were on their feet, struggling to and fro, each with jaws hard gripped upon the other's neck, each silent save for his spasmodic efforts to breathe.
By timely flight on Thursday, he had evaded her congratulations. Intuition told him she would say things that jarred. Now he flicked Suráj with the base intent of merely greeting her as he passed. But she was a woman of experience and resource. She beckoned him airily with her riding-crop. "Mr Sinclair? What luck! I'm dying to hear how the 'March Past' went off. Did you get thunders of applause?"
We did not so much as sit down. He was not in the room two minutes." She pointed to a silver pen tray on the mahogany table, hidden behind a book rack and littered with the ashes and charred stumps of some five or six cigarettes. "Really, you manage very awkwardly, it seems to me." Laura caught her riding-crop in her right hand "Don't you don't you make me forget myself;" she cried, breathlessly.
"If I possibly can, I'll run in and make a report; if not, I'll drop a line when I get home to the lurid lights of Paris." "Shall you drive back with the Embassy insignia on your car?" inquired Win smiling. He looked much brighter and happier than before his visitor came. Max laughed. "I fancy not," he said as he gathered hat, gloves and riding-crop. "I'm rather anxious to be on my good behavior.
Armitage pointed down the road with his riding-crop. As Chauvenet walked slowly away, swinging his stick, Armitage turned toward the hotel. The shadow of night was enfolding the hills, and it was quite dark when he found Oscar and the horses. He mounted, and they rode through the deepening April dusk, up the winding trail that led out of Storm Valley.
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