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He leaned forward as he had always seen the Happy Family do when they started a race, and struck Silver smartly down the rump with the braided romal on his bridle-reins. H. J. Owens was taken off his guard and did nothing but stare open-mouthed until the Kid was well under way; then he shouted and galloped after him, up the little flat.
The approach was a broad graveled walk. I tied Lady Chloe to a tree, knotted the bridle-reins above her neck to prevent her from putting her restless feet into them, and proceeded toward the door. Of all the nights this was the one on which my usually lively imagination reposed. I was hungry and tired, and I dare say my little mare was.
The horse of an officer at his side was mortally wounded by a fragment, and fell beneath his rider other animals darted onward, with hanging bridle-reins, cut by the shell but I was looking at General Lee, feeling certain that he must have been wounded. He had escaped, however. Not a muscle of his calm face had moved.
She could see the ponies standing before the house, a small negro boy holding their bridle-reins. The girls were on the steps waiting for her. "I mustn't let them know that Dinkie wants to see Philip," she thought, as the girls called out that they had been looking everywhere for her. At that moment the two boys came along the piazza.
The horse, however, by this time, began to grow somewhat impatient at the unusual sensations which he experienced the weight of the rider being concentrated upon one single point, directly on his back, and resting very unsteadily and interruptedly there, and the bridle-reins passing up almost perpendicularly into the air, instead of declining backwards, as they ought to do in any proper position of the horseman.
I might shake my bridle-reins till I was tired and nothing would come of it unless Brutus was in the humour to depart; so that I was able to assure her with truth that I was not at all that kind of person. 'Then why not let your heart speak? 'There is such a thing, I said gloomily, 'as a heart that is gagged. 'Can no word, no hint of mine loosen the gag? she wished to know.
If you're hungry, Benito will show you the way to the kitchen." Then he walked away into the darkness, followed by the shocked gaze of his range boss. Benito roused himself from his amazement to say, warmly: "Si, compadre. You will enjoy a cup of hot coffee." But Law ground out fiercely: "I'm not used to kitchen hand-outs. I reckon I can chew my bridle-reins if I get too hungry."
She dropped the bridle-reins, brushed her eyes, and the sunshine of a smile broke through the troubled clouds. "Mr. Warburton," she said gently, "let us not play any more. I am too sad. Let us hang up the masks, for the comedy is done." How silent the forest was! The brook no longer murmured, the rustle of the leaves was without sound.
She dropped her bridle-reins, springing back a quick step, turning her eyes about for some weapon by which she might retaliate. Hector Hall's pistols hung on the end-gate of the sheep-wagon not more than twenty feet away. It seemed that Joan covered the distance in a bound, snatched one of the guns and fired.
Try to remember every word a valuable life may hang upon it. Keep as cool as you can and be careful, don't be alarmed, but be quick. Every word now once more." The boy repeated everything as accurately as he could. While he was speaking, the doctor, rising to his feet, gathered up the bridle-reins, and hastily bending down, was tightening the girth.
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