Master of
The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady
作者:Lynde, Francis, 1856-1930; Thulstrup, Thure de, 1848-1930 [Illustrator]
体例:段 章数:30
字数:611,915 来源:Project Gutenberg
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共 30 段- What that opposition came to in '71 is now a tale twice told
- She knew not that I was awake and slaking the thirst of my e
- She heard the clink of horseshoes on the gravel and turned,
- Now this was but a mess-room gibe, as he had said, cut out o
- I made so sure that I should hang in any case that it seemed
- She gave me but a glance, and though I tried as I had never
- "You are bitter hard, John Ireton--bitter and savage and unf
- In some such dismal grindings of the mill of thought the hou
- "Right as a trivet--scalps and all," laughed Jennifer. "He'l
- God knows what would have come of all this had my dear lad b
- "'Tis to be hoped you and the chief don't mean to be nidderi
- This was the loom on which we wove the backward-reaching web
- So Ephraim Yeates stretched himself face downward in the dam
- So we addressed ourselves to the ascent of the northern moun
- We found the highest part of the arch after some blind gropi
- The subaltern went to carry out the order, and Falconnet fel
- If I did aught to help it was all mechanical. I do remember
- We nursed the lad as best we could for a fortnight, dosing h
- "One more word before you go, Mistress Margery. Will you tel
- "Curse you!" he yelled. "I'll be quits with you for this, Ma
- He bowed as grandly as any courtier. "I hope her trust is no
- From the camp talk we, Tybee and I, gleaned some better info
- 'Twas a silly thing to do, you will say, and much beneath th
- He took the hint at once; and he it was who procured me inst
- I did penance for my disloyalty as a despairing lover might,
- She paused, and in the pause it flashed upon me how she had
- 'Twas the little bugler boy who saved his colonel's life, an
- It was in the very midst of his gust of ill-timed merriment,
- After he was gone I made shift to lead the horses through th
- "Oh, aye; I'm no saying there mightn't be a bit siller comin