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They were all the treasures that he carried with him over and above a chess-board and a set of chessmen, which sorely tempted me to accompany him in his march. In my next chapter, which will, I trust, be very short, I purport to say a few words as to what I saw of the American army, and therefore I will not now describe the regiments which we visited.
Slowly they moved the chessmen which lay before them on the grass. Tsunu hardly dared to breathe, lest he should disturb them. The breeze caught their long hair, the sunlight played upon it.... The sun still shone.... The chessmen were still slowly moved to and fro.... The woodman gazed enraptured. "But now," thought Tsunu, "I must return, and tell those at home of the beautiful maidens."
He looked at Tom significantly, and the negro shifted his position closer to Captain Koenig. Suddenly six bells struck. As the last stroke sounded, Lord Hastings, apparently accidentally, brushed one of the chessmen from the board. "Your pardon," he said to Captain Koenig. He bent over, apparently to pick up the chessman.
He had risen so hastily that he had overturned half a set of chessmen from the board on which he had been playing, into the lap of a pretty girl, his partner in the game; but he had listened so intently, from the General's first question, that he was unconscious of that slight mishap.
The chess-board was of ivory, the chessmen were of wrought gold, and they had belonged to Concobar, for on the day before the sons of Usna fled from Alba, the King had been hunting by their castle, and there had he left the board and men. As Nathos and Deirdre played, of a sudden was a cry heard from adown the shore.
On most of the houses were charming chimney-pots of different colours, exactly like immense chessmen, set out ready for a game. All the men in these towns looked almost ill with intelligence. Most of the girls were very pretty, with little coquettish features contradicted by saintly expressions, and even the dogs appeared well educated and intellectual.
'They don't keep this room so tidy as the other, Alice thought to herself, as she noticed several of the chessmen down in the hearth among the cinders: but in another moment, with a little 'Oh! of surprise, she was down on her hands and knees watching them. The chessmen were walking about, two and two! I feel somehow as if I were invisible
"An' I've always tried to teach you that the truth wuz the right thing." Paul laughed. "Sol," he asked, "did you ever see a game of chess?" "Chess? What's that? Is it a mark you shoot at?" "No; you play it on a board with little figures made of wood, if you haven't got anything else. My father has a set of chessmen, and he plays often with Mr. Pennypacker, our school teacher.
There should be extradition treaties all over the world to bring this arch- conspirator to justice. The door of his conscience had been knocked at by a thousand bleeding ghosts, and nothing had opened to them. What was Italy in his eyes? A chess-board; and Italians were the chessmen to this cold player with live flesh.
And he went forward into the castle and into the hall, and there he saw Kynan the son of Eudav, and Adeon the son of Eudav, playing at chess. And he saw Eudav the son of Caradawc, sitting on a chair of ivory carving chessmen. And the maiden whom he had beheld in his sleep, he saw sitting on a chair of gold. "Empress of Rome," said he, "all hail!"
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