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Updated: June 16, 2025
The Highland Pegasus, Rory Bean, to which belonged the single entire stall, was her old acquaintance, whom she had seen grazing on the baulk, as she failed not to recognise by the well-known ancient riding furniture and demi-pique saddle, which half hung on the walls, half trailed on the litter.
"It is doing its duty," replied his wife, calmly watching his agonies. "You will soon be easier." "Perhaps I shall in death," groaned the sufferer. "I am parched with thirst. Give me a glass of water." "You shall have wine, Matthew, if you prefer it. I have a flask in my pocket," she replied. "But what of the treasure where is it?" "Peace!" he cried. "I will baulk your avaricious hopes.
Love and integrity. What next? Worldly wisdom. And was there really more than worldly wisdom in her refusal to go aboard a sinking ship? She now knew it was otherwise. 'Begad, he said, 'I'll try her again. The fact was he had so set his heart upon Sally, and Sally alone, that nothing was to be allowed to baulk him; and his reasoning was purely formal.
Louder, louder chant the lay, Waken, lords and ladies gay; Tell them youth, and mirth, and glee Run a course as well as we; Time, stern huntsman! who can baulk, Stanch as hound and fleet as hawk? Think of this and rise with day, Gentle lords and ladies gay.
He carries his own chalk in his waistcoat pocket as if our chalk wasn't good enough for him and when he has finished chalking, he smooths the tip round with his finger and thumb and taps the cue against the table. "Oh! go on with the game," I want to say to him; "don't be so full of tricks." The Captain led off with a miss in baulk. Malooney gripped his cue, drew in a deep breath, and let fly.
The Captain, making up his mind without much waste of time, sent his ball under the cushion, six inches outside baulk. "What will I do here?" asked Malooney. "I don't know what you will do," said the Captain; "I'm waiting to see." Owing to the position of the ball, Malooney was unable to employ his whole strength.
The Highland Pegasus, Rory Bean, to which belonged the single entire stall, was her old acquaintance, whom she had seen grazing on the baulk, as she failed not to recognise by the well-known ancient riding furniture and demi-pique saddle, which half hung on the walls, half trailed on the litter.
"It is true that he is the one man in the world who insults me to my face with impunity whenever he meets me, and even presumes to chalk upon the walls of my own castle denunciations against me from the book of the Prophet Nehemiah, so that I was obliged to forbid him ever to appear before me under pain of being thrown headlong out of the window; yet to show you what an obedient servant I am of yours, madame, I will not baulk you of your desire, or desire you to choose another master, but will send and invite him to come up here at once.
And he had another knack too, not unfrequently made use of in steeple-chases Bob seldom let his own horse baulk, but he very generally made those that others were riding do so. And then, at a finish, how admirable was Bob!
I made the best dispositions possible in view of my cautious instructions, and soon every man, British, Czech and Cossack, was imbued with a determination to baulk the enemy's eastward ambitions at all costs.
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