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And with that the old man seemed to dry up suddenly and lose all taste for conversation. After lunch had tailed off with exquisite coffee and liqueurs, the guests were introduced to the garden, the library, and the housekeeper a dark, handsome lady, of no little majesty, and rather like a plutonic Madonna.
From Osborne, in a letter to his daughter, the Prince-Consort writes: "Alfred looks very nice and handsome in his new naval cadet's uniform the round-jacket and the long- tailed coat, with the broad knife by his side." The next month the Prince went to Spithead, to see this son off on a two-years' cruise and felt that his family had indeed begun to break up.
There was a crash as they broke through the top of a bending hedge, he heard a rail break beneath the hoofs, and they were flying across a wide pasture, the chestnut pulling hard. It needed some strength of will to hold him, but Blake did so, keeping his place behind the foremost while the rest of the hunt tailed out.
He knew that it was a brilliant ray reflected from the polished head of a lance, and he said as he pointed a finger: "The Mexicans are coming." "So they are," said the Ring Tailed Panther. "I see a horseman, an' another, an' another, an' now a lot of 'em. They must be a hundred at least. It's the troop of Castenada, an' they're after that cannon. Well, I'm glad."
"I've heard of you, Panther," said Potter, "and you and your friends are just the people I want." He spoke with great eagerness, and the soul of the Ring Tailed Panther, foreseeing an impending crisis of some kind, responded. "What is it?" he asked. "A crowd is gathering to march on Goliad," replied Potter.
"Furrst ye dig a pit," O'Flynn had said airily, stretched out before the fire after dinner. "Make it about four feet deep, and as long as ye'd like yer boards. When ye've done that I'll come and take a hand." The little job was not half finished when the light tailed. Two days more of soil-burning and shovelling saw it done. "Now ye sling a couple o' saplings acrost the durrt ye've chucked out.
"Some of our people had been gatherin' at San Felipe to stop the march of Cos if they could," he said, "but they've been drawn off now to help Gonzales. They're comin' from Bastrop, too, an' other places, an' if there ain't a fight then I'm the Ring Tailed Panther for nothing. If we keep a good pace we can join a lot of the boys by nightfall." "We'll keep it," said Ned.
Povey, a recent convert from Primitive Methodism in King Street to Wesleyan Methodism on Duck Bank, was dwelling upon window-tickets and the injustice of women, instead of upon his relations with Jehovah and the tailed one?
It was the peculiar kind of light that he had seen before, when a ray from the sun struck squarely on the steel head of a lance. "Look!" he said to Obed and Bowie. They looked, and Bowie instantly halted his men. The face of the Ring Tailed Panther suddenly lighted up. Texans don't carry lances an' I think we shall be attacked by a Mexican force within a few minutes, Colonel Bowie."
His crew sullenly tailed on to the halyards, and the strange, outlandish sail, lateen in rig and dyed a warm brown, rose in the air. We were sailing on the wind, and when Yellow Handkerchief flattened down the sheet the junk forged ahead and the tow-line went slack. Fast as the Reindeer could sail, the junk outsailed her; and to avoid running her down I hauled a little closer on the wind.
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