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Then she opened his mouth with the butt end of her willow riding-switch, to find out what he had in his cheek-pouches. An onion and a few marrowfat peas rolled out, and the little girl, kneeling beside him, eyed him sternly. "And so," she said, waving her hand toward the barren strip, "after pickin' up all that corn, you gophers have to go a-snoopin' round the veg'table patch!"
Possibly she was not even heard, for the dreadful crying continued and, mingled with it, the swish of the slender little riding-switch which in the earlier, less harassed days of his married life the Reverend Stephen had kept for the horse he rode, and which now he kept for his children.
His green eyes were watching Nick's lithe movements with thoughtful intentness. "How long is this job going to last?" he asked abruptly. "Heaven knows," was Nick's airy response. Max was silent a moment; then: "You will send her away if it gets too hot?" he said. Nick took up his riding-switch. "It's a tricky climate," he observed, "but I am keeping an eye on the weather.
To add to his alarm, Payton, whose mind was secretly occupied with the Colonel, sought to evince his indifference by changing the subject, and in doing so, hit on one singularly unfortunate. "A pretty fair piece of water," he said, rising with an affected yawn, and pointing over the lake with his riding-switch. "The tower at the head of it it's grown too dark to see it is it inhabited?"
But she did not flinch before him, and very slowly the tension passed. Yet his eyes shone terribly upon her as a sword-blade that is flashed in the sunlight. "A strange preference, mademoiselle," he remarked at length, turning to pick up his riding-switch. "Possibly you may change your mind before it is too late." "Never!" she answered proudly.
The tumult died down, and Dorothea with her riding-switch was guarding the half-cut steak from a predatory dog when the Vicomte and the butcher returned together. "Reassure yourself, Miss Westcote," said M. de Tocqueville. "There has been no bloodshed, though bloodshed was challenged.
'Then M. de Rosny was wrong, was he? I said, giving way to my anger. 'If it please you, he answered pertly. This was too much for me. My riding-switch lay handy, and I snatched it up. Before he knew what I would be at, I fell upon him, and gave him such a sound wholesome drubbing as speedily brought him to his senses.
And the little fellow quailed before her, his contrition beaten down under the storm of words that whistled about his ears without meaning, his small faculties disabled before this spectacle of wrath. Her fingers were closing and unclosing. They wanted a riding-switch; they wanted to grip this small body they had served and fondled, and to cut out what? The lie? Honoria hated a lie.
The tops of the surges, as they rose, were taken by the wind and swept off as neatly as you would cut a flower from its stalk with a riding-switch and the air was filled completely with this scud- water, rendering it so thick that it was impossible to see a cable's length ahead.
As he himself whimsically expressed it, he had received ample correction during his own chequered career; but he had never been in a position to correct anyone else. He found Toby waiting for him in his shirt-sleeves, rather white but quite composed, his riding-switch all ready to his hand. "Ever been flogged before?" he asked him curtly as he picked it up.
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