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In fact there was the side of the tiger's head not six feet from him, and, dare he fire, it was almost impossible to miss. But the gun was loaded with small shot, and even at so close a range he might injure the unfortunate Malay, if he were not beyond the point when a fresh blow would do him harm. Doctor Bolter stood unable to move.
"I had been looking after some cattle which had strayed from one of the herdsmen, a new hand," he said, "when I suddenly found myself close to a mob of strange blacks, the very same, I suspect, Harry and I met with when hunting up Old Bolter.
The most curious thing about his appearance was his eyes: they were large, black, and had a peculiar dull dead lustre." "Did they shine in the dark? I knew a fellow at Oxford whose eyes did. Chairs ran after him." "I never noticed; I don't remember. 'Psychically, as you superstitious muffs call it, Bolter was still more queer. At that time we were all gone on spirit-rapping.
Then the skin was laid raw side upwards, and dressed over with arsenical soap, a dose of which the Malay boy nearly succeeded in swallowing, being attracted by its pleasant aromatic odour. "Laugh away," said the doctor, "but I mean to have that skin set up and sent to the British Museum, presented by Doctor Bolter," he said importantly.
The passive heroism of the armies excited to frenzy, like millions of ants absorbed in the general mass, the servility of Assemblies, despising the head of their Government, but sustaining him by their votes, even at the risk of an explosion brought about by one "bolter," the sulky but well-drilled submission of even the liberal Parties, sacrificing their very reason for existence to the absurd fetish of abstract unity.
Noah Claypole, or Morris Bolter as the reader pleases, punctually followed the directions he had received, which Master Bates being pretty well acquainted with the locality were so exact that he was enabled to gain the magisterial presence without asking any question, or meeting with any interruption by the way.
"But the man is dying fast, Bolter," said Major Sandars. "Dying, sir? why he has been dying fast all day." "Then is not this rather unseemly before ladies?" said Captain Horton. "Unseemly? Before ladies?" said the doctor in a puzzled way. "Why, can't you see for yourselves? Ha, ha, ha!" he said, laughing softly. "Don't you see the remedies have beaten the poison.
Poetically figurative as the thing sounded, it was prosaic fact. So, still hearing the distant sounds of the hoofs beating in cheerful diminuendo on the roadway, he turned about and went back to talk to Bolter. To spend one's days perforce in an enormous house alone is a thing likely to play unholy tricks with a man's mind and lead it to gloomy workings.
They were all well mounted, Paul having Old Bolter to ride. Their equipment was simple in the extreme.
He wanted him worse than ever now he had heard. He had been a bolter himself when young had run away from home. He liked bolters. But, also, he wanted to win the championship. "Let the girl run him, then," he said. "Suits me. I'll pay her, and pay her well. If the dog wins, she'll get the stake." Arnold flushed. "She'll run the dog, sir; but not for you.
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