- 2023-12-05and the girl's mind was in such a turmoil that she had
- 2023-12-05De Vac clapped his hand over the child's mouth to still
- 2023-12-05upon her thin lips. She noted his expression of dismay.
- 2023-12-05recognized as that of the Earl of Leicester. “The hand
- 2023-12-05wall. He staggered down again; his remarkable physical
- 2023-12-05The little boy did not understand it all, he only knew
- 2023-12-05he dropped into a fitful sleep in the bottom of the skiff.
- 2023-12-05ruse of the old priest, and, assuming a similar attitude,
- 2023-12-05And thus matters stood when, one hot night, Meriem, unable
- 2023-12-05be dead, nor are you a king's son. Remember these two things
- 2023-12-05boat far into the dark recess of the cave-like retreat.
- 2023-12-05eyes of the Plantagenet hound, a black cap shall be placed
- 2023-12-05our tents. They were very civil, and offered us a house;
- 2023-12-05upon her thin lips. She noted his expression of dismay.
- 2023-12-05direct. The time will come and soon now, I hope, when you
- 2023-12-05recognized as that of the Earl of Leicester. “The hand
- 2023-12-05church bell by guess. The arrival of our boats was a rare
- 2023-12-05“To the death,” cried the little gray man, “a mort,
- 2023-12-05King Henry and his foreign favorites on one side, and the
- 2023-12-05“What ho, there, lad!” shouted Paul of Merely. “We
- 2023-12-05then directed the ray of the little lamp toward the further
- 2023-12-05As Beauchamp pitched forward across a bench, dead, the
- 2023-12-05an impalpable dust arose in little spurts from the long-rotted
- 2023-12-05saving he would fetch more food from the kitchen, but he
- 2023-12-05she had come to believe, since otherwise he would have
- 2023-12-05the child beneath the other articles of clothing, he pushed
- 2023-12-05many directions until he knew every bypath within a radius
- 2023-12-05There was naught for Paul of Merely to do but draw his
- 2023-12-05in which they are here mentioned, expressing their respective
- 2023-12-05the brow of Paul of Merely, for he realized that he was
- 2023-12-05“Thus only,” the old man was wont to say, “mayst
- 2023-12-05full upon the youth, but the active figure swung with him—always
- 2023-12-05away from our tents the large circle of lookers on. An
- 2023-12-05point upon the foreheads of those who fell before his own
- 2023-12-05evident that an assassin could have dispatched the little
- 2023-12-05his great host of noble knights and men-at-arms and squires
- 2023-12-05without actually submerging his head, and to regain the
- 2023-12-05his eyes with red hot tongs, we might look farther and
- 2023-12-05his motley crew, “fine pickings here indeed. A swine
- 2023-12-05Several days later, the little old woman called the child
- 2023-12-05end of the apartment. A steady stream of dirty water was
- 2023-12-05a duplicate made, waiting impatiently while the old man
- 2023-12-05cross bows and javelins might be directed against a scaling
- 2023-12-05A narrow alley ran past the building, ending abruptly at
- 2023-12-05gangway above which lowered a green and rotting wooden
- 2023-12-05wager our gracious Queen would he hard put to it to tell
- 2023-12-05I will talk to your heart's content, for be there one other
- 2023-12-05Maud and her little charge, Prince Richard; all ignorant
- 2023-12-05gruffly, explaining that he had always been fond of the
- 2023-12-05direct. The time will come and soon now, I hope, when you
- 2023-12-05“No man lives who can harm me while a blade hangs at
- 2023-12-05hand, mayst be stopped before it inflicts so much as a
- 2023-12-05up the steps, depositing her there with her back to the
- 2023-12-05When they reached the wall, De Vac and the Prince were
- 2023-12-05wish for in your manners. Sit down and eat with me, and
- 2023-12-05make good your escape.” He spoke in French, and held
- 2023-12-05the gunpowder was wanted for making a noise on their saint
- 2023-12-05“And how old might you be, my son?” he asked the boy.
- 2023-12-05the laws of chivalry, he did not lower his point until
- 2023-12-05there earlier in the evening, and underneath one of the
- 2023-12-05of three-halfpence, two fowls, one of which, the Indian
- 2023-12-05Can it be that the Queen is right and that Richard lies
- 2023-12-05the boy to read and write in French, English and Latin
- 2023-12-05smoke of torches and oil cressets that had lighted it in
- 2023-12-05barter. Money was scarcely worth anything, but their eagerness
- 2023-12-05At length, after tiresome days upon the road, they came
- 2023-12-05“That we are,” and “Long live Norman of Torn,”
- 2023-12-05the old woman. “You have seen, my son, that all Englishmen
- 2023-12-05end of the apartment. A steady stream of dirty water was
- 2023-12-05“The lad appears about fifteen,” said Paul of Merely,
- 2023-12-05with startled eyes, like two wild things, at the strange
- 2023-12-05As they entered the great courtyard, magnificent even in
- 2023-12-05gruffly, explaining that he had always been fond of the
- 2023-12-05“No!” cried he addressed. “Look! He is up again and
- 2023-12-05was wont to say, “that for your own good as well as mine,
- 2023-12-05hard watcher in the bushes. Closer and closer came the
- 2023-12-05without actually submerging his head, and to regain the
- 2023-12-05of fifty miles of Torn. Sometimes the old man accompanied
- 2023-12-05The main gateway of the castle looked toward the west and
- 2023-12-05day. Off the main road and far from any habitation, they
- 2023-12-05which marks the natural boundary of the country that the
- 2023-12-05endeavoring to lock the gate. But, handicapped by the struggling
- 2023-12-05not only the beginning of a lifelong devotion and loyalty
- 2023-12-05journey north toward the hills of Derby. For many days
- 2023-12-05Into the disc of light, leaped, fantastic, the witch figure
- 2023-12-05in his arms, stood listening, preparatory to mounting to
- 2023-12-05was commencing to assert itself. In all his life, he remembered
- 2023-12-05nicety must be thy handling of the weapon that thou mayst
- 2023-12-05designs to a successful conclusion. One party he moved
- 2023-12-05sworn 'twas a child's feeble wail had I not seen the two
- 2023-12-05may say, for Leicester had but just entered and saluted
- 2023-12-05forehead and from a blow which had evidently put out his
- 2023-12-05He divided his small following into two parties, entrusting
- 2023-12-05already met together and formed a pact for our mutual protection,
- 2023-12-05and insurgent. Personally, he had decided to join neither
- 2023-12-05through all the world for the little fellow, of whom he
- 2023-12-05which marks the natural boundary of the country that the
- 2023-12-05when after a year no child was found bearing such a mark
- 2023-12-05three feet and his neck was drawn about in an awkward and
- 2023-12-05In an instant, all was confusion and turmoil, and it was
- 2023-12-05fowls, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, and cattle; the order
- 2023-12-05De Vac was forced to grasp him roughly by the arm. There
- 2023-12-05work may be, but foul it is I know from the secrecy which
- 2023-12-05as the flickering rays of the candle she bore lighted up
- 2023-12-05than the manners of these people. They generally began
- 2023-12-05bid, I take orders from no man other than my father.”
- 2023-12-05At fifteen, he was a very strong and straight and handsome
- 2023-12-05the black carried him fifty paces beyond the fallen horseman
- 2023-12-05or hedges under water, many fish which are left on the
- 2023-12-05head, he seemed to remember a time when his life and surroundings
- 2023-12-05a great nose and a bit of wrinkled forehead. When he spoke,
- 2023-12-05as though it had but waited permission, the boy's sword
- 2023-12-05lamp was incapable of penetrating the fog. He groped with
- 2023-12-05“Not so,” cried the oldest of the knights. “Simon
- 2023-12-05His life in the Derby hills was so filled with the hard,
- 2023-12-05“I hate the King,” replied the little boy. “For this
- 2023-12-05him sped the yellow figure, and right to the end. The seemingly
- 2023-12-05little old man in the training of him. Often the two practiced
- 2023-12-05wish for in your manners. Sit down and eat with me, and
- 2023-12-05“It is enough that I tell you, my son,” the old fellow
- 2023-12-05had come across his northerly camp and he feared that they
- 2023-12-05Father Claude taught the boy to respect the rights of others,
- 2023-12-05wont to straighten up, and discard her dingy mantle for
- 2023-12-05“Aye, aye!” they cried. “We be your men, indeed.”
- 2023-12-05And thus matters stood when, one hot night, Meriem, unable
- 2023-12-05with a disloyal fellow-conspirator. True, he had not even
- 2023-12-05“Hold, old fellow!” cried the spokesman. “It be nigh
- 2023-12-05been the object of this strange attack. I think, My Lord,
- 2023-12-05moving westward. Then, one day, he announced that half
- 2023-12-05“We have lost our way in these devilish Derby hills of
- 2023-12-05Here he determined to hide until darkness had fallen, for
- 2023-12-05ever seen, of which the King was in such abject fear that
- 2023-12-05said that his boys were resting and gaining strength after
- 2023-12-05was murmuring low-toned taunts and insults as it invited
- 2023-12-05Richard, having often seen De Vac, did not fear him, and
- 2023-12-05nor by day. And upon his left breast was a strange mark
- 2023-12-05to tell him that she loved him. A dozen times she thought
- 2023-12-05there could be no doubt but that a number of men were approaching.
- 2023-12-05it, he could scarce be expected to regret or yearn for.
- 2023-12-05his cries, but it was too late. The Lady Maud and her lover
- 2023-12-05good old blooms of northern Europe which My Dear had so
- 2023-12-05was a sheet of gleaming light, and now he was driving home
- 2023-12-05the boy still clings as tightly to him as his own black
- 2023-12-05mistrusted and feared. The words of De Montfort, which
- 2023-12-05was scarcely superior to an English cottager. At night
- 2023-12-05speaks with the same sweet and commanding voice as it were
- 2023-12-05he commanded that we land at the Bishop of Durham's palace
- 2023-12-05peace because I wish to talk to another than my father.
- 2023-12-05(an odd red-breasted little bird, which inhabits the thick
- 2023-12-05lighting their advance with a flickering pine knot. The
- 2023-12-05laugh, as one caught in the perpetration of some questionable
- 2023-12-05and the child, thy sister and her son you tell me they
- 2023-12-05and ran like a hare, her yellow silk dress gleaming in
- 2023-12-05of the listeners beneath the dock and soon were lost in
- 2023-12-05surrounded by the great lords and nobles who composed his
- 2023-12-05point upon the foreheads of those who fell before his own
- 2023-12-05him sped the yellow figure, and right to the end. The seemingly
- 2023-12-05mistrusted and feared. The words of De Montfort, which
- 2023-12-05be older, thou shalt go forth and kill them all for unless
- 2023-12-05speak English, but with a studied and very marked French
- 2023-12-05a pound of sugar or an ordinary knife. No individual possessed
- 2023-12-05his own wife and if that be virtue, then if I also desire
- 2023-12-05His life in the Derby hills was so filled with the hard,
- 2023-12-05precipice, which natural protection rendered towers unnecessary
- 2023-12-05Morison had been urging his suit once more that evening,
- 2023-12-05ogre crouching upon the flank of a deserted world, for
- 2023-12-05Torn visited his friend, Father Claude. It was he who taught
- 2023-12-05the end of the rickety, dismantled dock; the one thinking
- 2023-12-05the catacombs. Max glanced at the white face of Helen Cumberly,
- 2023-12-05the child's companion always managed to hasten into cover
- 2023-12-05“I am no king's man,” replied the boy quietly, “I
- 2023-12-05back down now, and, had he left the Lady Maud alive, the
- 2023-12-05the light upon them. They led upward. He mounted cautiously,
- 2023-12-05then you shall go out and kill many Englishmen. Your name
- 2023-12-05of the building in search of Til, whom he now thoroughly
- 2023-12-05“It is naught, my son. But English curs setting upon
- 2023-12-05first time that he had been surprised there he apologized
- 2023-12-05logic; methinks it might stand me in good stead before
- 2023-12-05information she felt sure she alone could give; the other
- 2023-12-05if he thinks he runs out the back door like an old woman