concealed in the long grass. Down it came, plunging heavily forward on its nose, and shooting its ri...
wanted to think, to clear his terribly aching and beclouded brain. And while thus lying, seemingly u...
seizing his bridle, or at any rate in retaining hold of it, or his doom would have been sealed.“The ...
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And now the flaming rays of the sinking sun have given place to a softer, mellower light, and the re...
“He won’t meet any. There isn’t a chance of it. Look here, Eanswyth; Tom must take care of himself f...
attempts to draw him out during their journey had failed. As they drew near the dreaded spot this re...
“Eustace—dearest—must we really part now?” she murmured in a broken sob, clinging to him more closel...
down from the dark vault above, and the sullen redness of the war-fires flashing from the distant he...
wise in time.”“The words of Ixeshane are always the words of wisdom,” said the Kafir, rising in obed...
“Tsh—tsh—tsh! Shut up, man alive, shut up!”This was said in a low, warning whisper, and the speaker’...
cannot be talking seriously. He is joking.”“Hau!” burst forth the amapakati in mingled surprise and ...
A grim, massive face, a pair of fierce, rolling eyes, which seemed to sparkle with a cruel and blood...
consequences entailed by the blundering ferocity of him who should have been her first protector—to ...
him his letters. His coat was off, and he was doing one or two odd carpentering jobs. The time was a...
mass was advancing. It was like a disturbed ants’ nest—on they came, those dark forms, swarming over...
“You were not always a ‘loyal,’ Xalasa?”“Whau!” cried the man, bringing his hand to his mouth, in ex...
very heart’s blood of the lookers on with that dreadful shadow of a smile. Then, without a word, she...
door trilling the cheerful fragments of the airiest of songs—but a few minutes since she picked up t...
intervals, several circular clumps of bush. One of these conceals a spectator. The latter is seated ...
gleamed two nights before. Even so, in like fashion, the brooding cloud of war swept down upon the l...
sound of that slow, crawling glide—to discern an indistinct and sinuous shadow moving in the subdued...
too quick for him. Jerking back his horse’s head and driving in both spurs, he causes the animal to ...
was enough to provoke half a dozen fights, especially in that room, frequented as it often was by Po...
no mean antagonist, even had he been similarly armed, and he was unarmed.“No, I do not fear you,” he...
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