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"To my mind the whole thing's as plain as a pikestaff the young fellow was hard up he confessed he hadn't a penny on him! he went in there, found the shop empty, saw those rings, grabbed a couple, was interrupted by the old man and finished him off by scragging him! That's my opinion!
So that he can get the five thousand pound reward! Plain as a pikestaff! Only, the police are such fools." "And what about Collishaw?" asked Bryce, willing to absorb all his companion's ideas. "Part of the game," declared Sackville. "Same man that got rid of Braden got rid of that chap! Probably Collishaw knew a bit and had to be silenced.
Never has the hoof of the mule left its trace in these windings; man himself can with difficulty stand upright there, even with the hempen boots which can not slip, and the hook of the pikestaff to force into the crevices of the rocks. In the fine summer months the 'pastour', in his brown cape, and his black long-bearded ram lead hither flocks, whose flowing wool sweeps the turf.
I needn't tell you I have given the bounders a wide berth since the day I raised the wind; but I went and had it out with them over this. And half the seven hundred is for default interest, I'll trouble you, from the beginning of January down to date!" "Had you agreed to that?" "Not to my recollection, but there it was as plain as a pikestaff on my promissory note.
"The whole question," he concluded, "is plain as a pikestaff. Am I becoming more of a Christian, or less?" As though to learn an answer to his riddle he gazed fro he eyrie over the wide horizon, upon leagues of sea rising upward to blend their essence, under the magic touch of evening, with the purple dome overhead. The elements, as is their wont upon such occasions, gave forth no clear reply.
They were to distribute it according to his specified instructions. It was all as plain as a pikestaff. Pratt, who was a good lawyer, knew what the Probate Court would say to that will if it were ever brought up before it, as he did, a quite satisfactory will. And it was validly executed.
He went himself, that afternoon, and returned with the news that an aunt of Scales had recently died, leaving him twelve thousand pounds, and that he had, after quarrelling with his uncle Boldero, abandoned Birkinshaws at an hour's notice and vanished with his inheritance. "It's as plain as a pikestaff," said Mr. Critchlow.
And all the time Betty why, Betty's devoted to him! and it's as plain as a pikestaff what that old cat, Miss Raeburn, is thinking of from morning till night! Well, I'm beat!" And throwing himself down on a stool by the fire, his chin between his hands, he stared dejectedly at the burning logs.
The spectators of this scene, ignorant that the pelisse of the brute-tamer covered a complete suit of armor, and attributing the cries of the panther solely to fear, were struck with astonishment and admiration at the intrepidity and almost supernatural power of this man. A few steps behind him stood Goliath, leaning upon the ashen pikestaff.
AMANDA. It's as plain as a pikestaff! MRS. PETERKIN. No; we had the horse faced in the wrong direction, toward Providence. ELIZABETH ELIZA. And mother was afraid to have me turn, and we kept on and on till we should reach a wide place. MRS. PETERKIN. I thought we should come to a road that would veer off to the right or left, and bring us back to the right direction.
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