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Then, strapping the other's sword and dagger around his body and carrying his own in his hand, together with the two bows of yew, he drew the cowl of horse's hide over his face, so that none could tell who he was, and set forth from the forest, turning his steps toward the eastward and Nottingham Town.
The hounds gave up after chasing the fox for three miles. The old squire thought that they stopped because the sun had destroyed the scent. With a little help from an animal I had beaten Aurelia once more. When I grew weary of sitting up in the yew tree, clambered down, intending to push on through the wood until I came to the end of it.
"Yew trees never look anything but hideous under any circumstances or at any time of year," said Mrs. Dole, with the slow, emphatic relish of one who contradicts for the pleasure of the thing. "They are only fit for graveyards and cemeteries." Mrs.
And I will speak a good word for thee to the king. Not now, indeed, for it were not seemly that I should introduce thy matters until I had brought mine own to a happy issue. But what sayest thou? To pursue a young lord for many miles and capture him, single-handed, were that not worth a dukedom? I have here this good yew bow with a silken string and a goodly store of arrows.
She betook herself to an old grass-grown walk between yew hedges at the bottom of the Dutch garden, and paced it in a tumult of revolt and pain. Not to go to Chetworth again! not to see Beryl, or any of them! How cruel! how monstrously unjust! 'I shan't obey! why should I? Beryl and I must manage to see each other of course we shall! Girls aren't the slaves they used to be.
Tom turned away and obeyed the order, passing the American skipper, who was leaning on the bulwark looking sick, and as the sailor came up he turned to him with an ugly leer. "Guess I'm going to pay yew for that, young man," he said. "I don't let a chap hit me twice for nothing." "Like to do it now?" said Tom, sharply. "No; I'm not quite ready, mister. Yew'll know when I am."
He swore a great oath, and struck his horse with his closed fist, as if that animal had been to blame; then he dismounted, opened the gate, and fumbled about for his stick. Then, still swearing, he staggered up the lane, for it was evident he was not sober enough to remount. By daylight Susan was back and at her daily labours at Yew Nook.
It was a large and beautiful room, its wide windows, in a cushioned recess, looking upon the lawn where the yew tree cast solemn shade. One wall presented an unbroken array of volumes, their livery sober but handsome; detached bookcases occupied other portions of the irregular perimeter. Cabinets, closed and open, were arranged with due regard to convenience.
Don't you think it would be a good plan to stick up a death's-head and cross-bones here and there, and to split up old coffin-lids for your setting-sticks, and get old Mowlders, the sexton, to bury your roots, and cover them in with a "dust to dust," and so forth, and plant a yew tree in the middle, and stick those bits of painted board, that look so woefully like gravestones, all round it, and then let old Tamar prowl about for a ghost?
Beneath them, garden chairs were stationed and a tea-table spread, at which four ladies sat one, the elder, dressed in crude purple, the other three, though of widely differing ages and aspect, in light coloured summer gowns. To the left of the lawn, a high plastered wall masked by hollies, bay, yew, and at the far end by masses of airy, pink-plumed tamarisk shut off the eastward view.
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