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Updated: June 29, 2025
It was not till he touched the window with his riding-crop that she observed him. The rain had nearly ceased, and she opened the casement in obedience to his gesture. "Didn't you see me?" asked d'Urberville. "I was not attending," she said. "I heard you, I believe, though I fancied it was a carriage and horses. I was in a sort of dream." "Ah! you heard the d'Urberville Coach, perhaps.
As for the red squirrels in the chestnut-trees, and the dappled deer in the carrefours, and the sulky boars that bristled at him from the overgrown sentiers, they accepted him on condition that he kept to the road. And he did, head bent, thoughtful eyes fixed on his saddle-bow, drumming absently with his riding-crop on his spurred boots, his bridle loose on his horse's neck.
"Suppose you were obliged to?" Geraldine's velvet eyes widened lazily: "Obliged to? Oh yes you mean if we went to smash." Then her gaze became remote as she stood slowly tapping her gloved palm with her riding-crop. "I think I'll dress," she said absently. "Good-bye, then," nodded Kathleen. "Good-bye," said the girl, turning lightly away across the hall.
"I want you to promise me if you ever need a friend if there is anything I can ever do " "Ye can," interrupted Patsy, "and ye can do it now. Take that riding-crop of yours and draw me a map in the dust there of the country hereabouts ye can make a cross for Arden.... That's grand. Now where would ye put Brambleside Inn? And is it seven miles from there to Arden?"
But, soul or phantom whatever relation to Harry this might bear it had come to me, and the great joy of that was enough for the time. There let us leave the question. I closed the window, went upstairs to my dressing-room, drew on my riding-boots and overcoat, found cap, gloves, and riding-crop, and descended to the porch.
Colina thrust her riding-crop into the hands of Nesis. "Get on that horse," she commanded, pointing to the pack-animal. "Mount!" she cried to Cora. Meanwhile, from her own saddle she was hastily unfastening her rifle. She resolutely threw the lever over and back. At the ominous sound the Indians edged behind each other or sought cover behind convenient teepees. Nesis and Cora were mounted.
Do you mean to tell me that you have not guessed the riddle?" She turned her delicate head aside and switched the grasses with her riding-crop. "Well," flinging aside his cap, which he had been holding in his hand, "I will tell you. I wanted to be near you. I wanted to be, what you made me, your servant. It is the one great happiness that I have known.
"I don't know," Taffy answered, wondering why he should be consulted. "Self-reliance is what a man wants." "Couldn't he have learnt that at school?" Sir Harry fidgeted with the riding-crop in his hands. "Well, you see, he's an only son I dare say it was selfish of me. You don't mind my talking about George?" Taffy laughed. "I like it. But " Sir Harry laughed too, in an embarrassed way.
"I inquired about my ankle," said Siward, amused, "and they tell me it is better, thank you." "Sit a horse pretty soon?" she asked, dropping one leg over the other and balancing the riding-crop across her knee. "Not for awhile. You have a fine day for a gallop, Marion," looking askance at the sunshine filtering through the first green leaves of the tree outside his window.
Having done, he rose at last from Sir Terence's desk, at which he had been sitting, and took up his riding-crop and cocked hat from the chair where he had placed them. "And now," he said, "I think I will ride into Lisbon and endeavour to come to an understanding with Count Redondo and Don Miguel Forjas." Sir Terence advanced to open the door. But Wellington checked him with a sudden sharp inquiry.
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