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Updated: May 6, 2025
Rodney rode by, then wheeled about and came back as far as the stone sidewalk before the Bank entrance. He jumped off, hitched Red Squirrel to one of the posts that sentineled the curbstone, and passed quietly round into the "shady turn." The front door was open, and boxes stood in the passage; he walked in as far as the parlor door; then he tapped with his riding-whip against the frame of it.
Apparently he had come on horseback, for he held a riding-whip in his hand, the very whip Errington had left with him the previous day. The inky, dirty, towzle-headed boy who presided in solitary grandeur over the Snake's dingy premises, stared at him inquiringly, visitors of his distinguished appearance and manner being rather uncommon.
I could see that his face was livid with rage, and that he was directing himself to attack me. I had no weapon but my riding-whip, and with this I prepared to receive his assault. He came on at a run, all the while venting the most diabolical curses. When he had got nearly up to my horse's head, he stopped a moment, and thundered out "Who the Hell are you, meddling with my affairs?
In response to which Cork smiled with a touch of superiority and gave her to understand that he was too sensible to be afraid of shadows. They were still sitting there conversing, with their faces to the sunlit garden, when there came the sound of a careless footfall and Violet Campion, her riding-whip dangling from her wrist, strolled round the corner of the house, and in at the open door.
He looked towards the trees, and then round at the closed houses. With a shrug of the shoulders, he rode towards Denise and dismounted. "Mademoiselle", he said, "they have been frightening you." "Yes", she answered. "They are not men, but brutes." The colonel, who was always gentle in manner, made a deprecatory gesture with the great riding-whip that he invariably carried.
I have see his strong hands; his bad face laugh at my words; I have see him raise his riding-whip and cut me across the head. I have see him stagger and fall from the blows I give him with the knife the knife which never was found why, I not know, for I throw it on the ground beside him!
No painter could have scanned her more closely, noted more minutely the buckle of brilliants that captured the plume in her hat, the lace about her throat, the curious work upon her leather gauntlets, the firm foot in the small, square shoe, the riding-whip with its pommel of gold which she carried so commandingly.
The emperor suddenly dropped his riding-whip; Admiral Bruix immediately withdrew his hand from his sword, and, taking off his hat, he awaited the end of the dreadful scene in profound silence.
The door was flung noisily back, and Major Coningsby strode in. "Hullo! Very good of you to look me up so soon. Sorry I wasn't in to receive you. Haven't you had a drink yet?" He tossed his riding-whip down upon the table, and busied himself with the glasses. Carey drew near; his face was stern. "I have something to say to you," he said, "before we drink, if you have no objection."
There was something admirable, if slightly discourteous, in the fearless manner in which Westerfelt leaned over the fence and, with the butt of his riding-whip, struck the animals squarely in the face, coolly laughing as he did so. "You, Tige! you, Pomp!" cried the woman, running to them and picking up sticks and stones and hurling them at the animals, "down thar, I say!"
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