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"I am going to write to my step-mother by to-night's post," said Alicia. "She asked me particularly in her letter how long you were going to stop, and whether there was any chance of her being back in time to receive you." Miss Audley took a letter from the pocket of her riding-jacket as she spoke a pretty, fairy-like note, written on shining paper of a peculiar creamy hue.
Now behave well, little brownie!" he added, giving the animal a hearty slap on her round, glossy haunches. In the meantime the horse-dealer had mounted. With his gaunt figure, his short riding-jacket under the broad-brimmed, varnished hat, his yellow breeches over his lean thighs, his high leather boots, his large, heavy spurs, and his whip, he looked like a highwayman.
It was so now, and, revolver in hand but hidden beneath my holster flap, I leaned over and touched Craig's arm. "Keep quiet," I whispered sternly. "Let them challenge first, and no firing except on my order." Almost with the words there came the sharp hail: "Halt! Who comes there?" I drew the cape of my riding-jacket closer, so as better to muffle the sound of my voice.
Harry, I hear, is with him so I thought you ought to know." Rutter had given a slight start at the mention of Temple's name among the crippled, and a strange glitter still lingered in his eyes. "Then I presume my son is dependent on a beggar," he exclaimed, rising from his seat, stripping off his brown velveteen riding-jacket and hanging it in a closet behind his chair. "Yes, it looks that way."
He took them from the pocket of his riding-jacket. As Collinson received them, his face took upon itself an even graver expression.
About the same time that Miss Norris appeared wearing a trooper's hat her friend Miss Cuthbert decorated the front of her riding-jacket with brass buttons.
He would either fight or make peace, but he must first learn the conditions. In the meantime he would hold his peace. Rutter strode past him to the fireplace, opened his riding-jacket, laid his whip on the mantel, and with his hands deep in his breeches pockets faced the room and his host, who had again taken his place by the table. "The fact is, St.
He wore a dark purple roquelaure riding-jacket, faced and lapelled with gold lace, through the open front of which shone a silver breastplate. A velvet suit of a lighter shade than the jacket, a pair of high yellow Cordovan boots, with a gold-hilted rapier on one side, and a poniard of Parma on the other, each hung from the morocco-leather sword-belt, completed his attire.
"Where did you put up?" echoed Harry, loosening his riding-jacket to give his knife and fork freer play. "I spent a week at Tom Coston's and a week at Craddock. Another lump of sugar, Todd." The boy laughed gently: "Lazy Tom's?" "Lazy Tom's and the best-hearted fellow in the world. They're going to make him a judge, they say and " " What of peach brandy? No cream in mine, Todd."
The great lapels of her riding-jacket, reversed, were buttoned tight across her shoulders, and the double fold of fur lay warm and dry against her heart and lungs; but her hands were cold, and her skirt dragged leaden and cold from her waist, and water soaked in upon her chilled feet. She knew she ought to have thought of these things.
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