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Truly he had not the vast strength and stature of Norway's king, but Alfred's was the kingliness of wisdom and statecraft. Once I said to Odda: "Can your king fight?" "Ay, with head as well as with hand," he answered. "His skill in weapon play makes up for lack of weight and strength. He is maybe the best swordsman and spearman in England."
So inded he was; yet on his feet and in action singularly impressive, and, when he chose, altogether the statesman and orator. There united in him the spirits of the troubadour and the spearman. Ivanhoe was not more gallant nor Bois-Guilbert fiercer. But the valor and the prowess were tempered by humor.
The night had seemed long, bat the day was worse. Then the boys rubbed their eyes and lifted their heads. Where there had been a bare stretch of water white under the sun between two islands a quarter of a mile off, there appeared a long canoe, with a tall spearman standing in the bows, and a full crew behind.
As I read the name, a sudden remembrance illuminated my mind, and a sudden suspicion rose out of the new light. "Stop!" I exclaimed. "Rosanna Spearman came to my aunt out of a reformatory? Rosanna Spearman had once been a thief?" "There's no denying that, Mr. Franklin. What of it now, if you please?" "What of it now? How do we know she may not have stolen the Diamond after all?
"It's fixed them up! Come right ahead and introduce me to my future son-in-law!" As she raced to the door she added half to herself: "I don't want to boast, but, thank the Lord, I've got Jeannette off this season!" The Story of a Young Engineer By FRANK H. SPEARMAN IT WAS the second month of the strike, and not a pound of freight had been moved. Things did look smoky on the West End.
A moment more, and the king himself appeared, walking alone, in his armour and winged helmet, his left hand upon the hilt of his sword, his splendid mantle hanging to the ground behind his shoulders. As he came between the soldiers, he walked more slowly, and his dark, deep-set eyes seemed to scan the bearing and accoutrements of each separate spearman.
I told him exactly what had happened, mentioning particularly what my lady's maid and the house-maid had said about Rosanna Spearman. Mr. Franklin's clear head saw the turn the Sergeant's suspicions had taken, in the twinkling of an eye.
His last effort was made, when we had looked at our watches, and had got on our legs previous to taking leave. "I shall now wish you good-night, ma'am," says the Sergeant. "And I shall only say, at parting, that Rosanna Spearman has a sincere well-wisher in myself, your obedient servant. But, oh dear me! she will never get on in her present place; and my advice to her is leave it."
Miss Verinder has been in secret possession of the Moonstone from first to last; and she has taken Rosanna Spearman into her confidence, because she has calculated on our suspecting Rosanna Spearman of the theft. There is the whole case in a nutshell. Collar me again, Mr. Betteredge. If it's any vent to your feelings, collar me again." God help me! my feelings were not to be relieved in that way.
Ralph laughed thereat, and was merry and blithe with them; but the spearman, who was an old man, said: "For all Wat sayeth, lord, and his japes, ye must not misdeem of us that we shepherds of the Downs can do nought but run to ales and feasts, and that we are but pot-valiant: maybe thou thyself mayst live to see things go otherwise: and in that day may we have such as thee for captain.
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