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Ridings, kneeling by the bed and taking the ghostly hands of the sufferer in her own warm and soft palms. She shuddered as she kissed the thin lips. "I think you'll soon be around agin," she added, in the customary mockery of an attempt at cheer. The other woman started slightly, turned her head, and gazed on her old friend long and intently. The hollowness of her neighbor's words stung her.
"Yes, but it's the last time," said Jennings, who refused to smile. "We can't give this the go-by." "Oh, well, now, neighbor Jennings, you mustn't take it too hard; you know these men are good capable men." "They are capable enough," put in Deering, "but we want a change." "Then make it," laughed Russell, good-naturedly defiant. "We will make it, bet y'r boots," said Amos Ridings.
Had he ever written anything remotely partaking of the nature of a dramatic piece, it could at the most have been the words of the songs in some congratulatory royal pageant such as Lydgate probably wrote on the return of Henry V after Agincourt; though there is not the least reason for supposing Chaucer to have taken so much interest in the "ridings" through the City which occupied many a morning of the idle apprentice of the "Cook's Tale," Perkyn Revellour.
Colonel Peavy and Judge Brown came down together, and Ridings and Deering were there also, seated comfortably under the awning, in mild discussion with Robie, who had taken the side of free trade, to be contrary, as Deering said. "No, sir; I take that side for it's right." There was something sincere in his reply, and Ridings stared. "How long since?" "About a week."
There was not an invalid in the three Ridings, Saxon or Norman, but the palfrey of the Lady Rowena might be seen journeying to his door, in company with Father Glauber, her almoner, and Brother Thomas of Epsom, her leech. She lighted up all the churches in Yorkshire with wax-candles, the offerings of her piety.
Chairman, I move that Colonel Peavy and Amos Ridings escort the nominee to the platform." The motion was put and carried amid laughter. As they dragged Bradley out of his chair and pushed him up the aisle, everybody laughed and cheered. William Councill kicked the Colonel as he went past and Robie hit him a sounding slap between the shoulders. The Colonel bore it all with astonishing good nature.
There are times when I feel as if I could bite some men, that Tomfool Maurice de Courcy, for instance, when I hear him rattling on, and think 'I know I have often talked thoughtlessly, I have feared afterwards I might have given you pain. 'No, no, you never have; you have carried me along with you. I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings.
The talk now drifted off to Indians, politics and religion, edged round to the war, when the grave Judge began telling Ridings and Robie just how "Kilpatrick charged along the Granny White Turnpike," and, on a sheet of wrapping-paper, was showing where Major John Dilrigg fell. "I was on his left, about thirty yards, when I saw him throw up his hand"
He shook his head, and seemed to deny something. Then he poured forth a flood of talk, and when he had finished Ringan spoke to me. "He says that the Tuscaroras are stirring. Word has come down from the hills to be ready for a great ride between the Moon of Stags and the Corngathering." Lawrence nodded. "That's an old Tuscarora habit; but somehow these ridings never happen."
If we don't, we can't. I believe we will stand together. The grange has learned us something. It's made us better acquainted with each other. An' the time has come f'r a fight. The first thing is a permanent chairman. Who'll y' have for chairman?" "I nominate Amos Ridings." "Second the motion," cried two voices in quick succession. The chairman's grim visage did not relax.
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