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But outside all these lesser boredoms and anxieties there was another bigger than all the rest and growing every day: After the money was gone, what? It was a question that, in the past, he would have sheered away from as a horse shies from an obstacle intruding on a pleasant road. The spring of his youth was gone; the renewal of the old struggle too horrible to contemplate.

"I am glad you liked my house," he said. "But I hear the aristocracy of the Row laments. It shies at the idea of being invaded by more or less frightful creatures. But I remain deaf. I really can't bother about that. It is so immeasurably more unpleasant to be frightful than to see that which is so, that I'm afraid my sympathies remain rather pig-headedly one-sided.

The groom enters to lead him away and makes some movement or other at which the horse starts, rears and shies. "That's his bad conscience," says Krall, gravely. And the expression assumes a singular meaning and importance in this hybrid atmosphere, steeped in an indefinable something from another world. But it is half-past one, the sacred German dinner-hour.

Behind the altar is a window, and as Gawain looks a Hand, black and hideous, comes through the window, and extinguishes the taper, while a voice makes lamentation loud and dire, beneath which the very building rocks. Gawain's horse shies for terror, and the knight, making the sign of the Cross, rides out of the Chapel, to find the storm abated, and the great wind fallen.

At these old fairs the showmen and gipsies take large sums in the "pleasure" departments for admission to their exhibitions swings, roundabouts, shooting-galleries, and coco-nut shies. In Evesham Post-Office a gipsy woman once asked me to write a letter; she handed me an order for £10, and instructed me to send it to a London firm for £5 worth of best coco-nuts and £5 worth of seconds.

Five or six lanterns dotted the lower slopes, where the smaller shows the Aunt Sally, the coconut shies and the swing-boats were being hastily packed. Overhead, in a clean heaven, rode the stars, and by their glimmer the children saw their new protectress draw herself up in all her Amazonian amplitude. She wore a low bodice of pink, with spangles, and a spangled skirt descended to her knees.

Thatches!" showed that they had been sighted by some small scout of the enemy. "I've got some coppers left," said Rosher; "let's have a shot at the cocoa-nuts." They stopped opposite a pitch, and began bowling at the fruit. The first two or three shies were unsuccessful; then Jack knocked down a nut. "I'm not going to let you beat me!" cried Rosher. "Here; mister, give me some more balls."

"I hardly think one should telephone a message of that sort," says Bruce. "Someone ought to see him, explain the situation, and get his reply directly." "Then you go, Bruce, dear," suggests Mrs. Mackey. No, he shies at that. "Dick would resent my coming on such an errand," says Bruce.

Everyone enjoyed the journey except Robert and the few people they passed on the way. These mostly went into what looked like some kind of standing-up fits by the roadside, as Anthea said. just outside Benenhurst, Robert hid in a barn, and the others went on to the Fair. There were some swings, and a hooting tooting blaring merry-go-round, and a shooting-gallery and coconut shies.

He shies and bucks and kicks like a regular devil. This time he shied at a steam lorry and bucked my feet out of the stirrups. Everybody in the squadron has turned him down, and I'm the junior, I've had to take him." He eyed the animal resentfully. "I'd just like to get him on some grass and knock hell out of him!" "I'm glad to see you're not hurt," said Boyce with a smile.