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thou ridest on horseback, do not go lolling with thy body on the back of the saddle, nor carry thy legs stiff or sticking out from the horse's belly, nor yet sit so loosely that one would suppose thou wert on Dapple; for the seat on a horse makes gentlemen of some and grooms of others.
Hold thy peace; answer me not a word; saddle Rocinante if he be unsaddled; and let us go to put my offer into execution; for with the right that I have on my side thou mayest reckon as vanquished all who shall venture to question it;" and in a great rage, and showing his anger plainly, he rose from his seat, leaving the company lost in wonder, and making them feel doubtful whether they ought to regard him as a madman or a rational being.
They made their way at length in among some pleasant trees that stood a little distance from the road, and there vacating Rocinante's saddle and Dapple's pack-saddle, they stretched themselves on the green grass and made their supper off Sancho's stores, and he making a powerful and flexible whip out of Dapple's halter and headstall retreated about twenty paces from his master among some beech trees.
Mr. Winkle, thus instructed, climbed into his saddle, with about as much difficulty as he would have experienced in getting up the side of a first-rate man-of-war.
'What makes him go sideways?' said Mr. Snodgrass in the bin, to Mr. Winkle in the saddle.
The walls were decorated with several hunting-whips, two or three bridles, a saddle, and an old rusty blunderbuss, with an inscription below it, intimating that it was 'Loaded'--as it had been, on the same authority, for half a century at least.
But the guard has delivered at the corn-dealer's shop, the brown paper packet he took out of the little pouch which hangs over his shoulder by a leathern strap; and has seen the horses carefully put to; and has thrown on the pavement the saddle which was brought from London on the coach roof; and has assisted in the conference between the coachman and the hostler about the gray mare that hurt her off fore-leg last Tuesday; and he and Mr. Weller are all right behind, and the coachman is all right in front, and the old gentleman inside, who has kept the window down full two inches all this time, has pulled it up again, and the cloths are off, and they are all ready for starting, except the 'two stout gentlemen,' whom the coachman inquires after with some impatience.
Nick's fingers closed on the hand with which she nervously clutched the pommel of her saddle.
Mrs. Estes remained in the saddle, watching the scene.
On its back a gaunt skeleton of a man was muttering, and picking aimlessly at the nail-studded saddle.
The blast of a bugle was heard without the court-yard, and a clatter of wheels, as the grooms departed to saddle the horses.
Tarvin, who had pricked up his ears at hearing his own name, now resettled himself in the saddle, and gathered up his reins, as a hint to the King that it was time to be moving.
Tarvin put his foot into the stirrup to spring up, when the saddle turned completely round.
"Now," he said, and leaped into the saddle, as the King clattered out of the court-yard.
He refused to quit the court-yard, though Tarvin argued with him, first behind the saddle, and then between the indignant ears.
The Maharajah, known in his youth as a hard rider among a nation of perhaps the hardest riders on earth, turned in his saddle and watched the battle with interest.
Tarvin thrust out his under jaw with a motion peculiar to himself, wheeled the colt, and waited without answering, his empty hands folded on the pommel of his saddle.
The King shook in his saddle with laughter, and held up his hand.
As the sun grew fiercer he found a resting-place in the heart of a circle of thorn, tucked the saddle under his head, and lay down to sleep.
And once, when the Prince had coaxed the keeper of the horse into allowing him to bestride an unmanageable mount, Tarvin, riding up, had picked him out of the depths of the velvet saddle, set him on his own saddle-bow, and, in the same cloud of dust, shown him how, in his own country, they laid the reins on one side or the other of the neck of their cattle-ponies to guide them in pursuit of a steer broken from the herd.
The trick of being lifted from his saddle, appealing to the "circus" latent in the boy breast even of an Eastern prince, struck the Maharaj as so amusing that he insisted on exhibiting it before Kate; and as Tarvin was a necessary figure in the performance, he allured him into helping him with it one day before the house of the missionary.
Tarvin settled himself comfortably in his saddle, and drew up in the centre of the court-yard, where he was wont to confer with the Maharajah.
It came from behind the green shutters, and with its coming Tarvin mechanically straightened himself in the saddle.
Something sprang out of the darkness where the guard slept, and where the King's fighting apes were tethered; and the horse reared as a gray ape, its chain broken at the waistband, flung itself on the pommel of the saddle, chattering.
The man mounted one, and Tarvin took the other silently, satisfying himself before getting into the saddle that the girths were not loose this time.
Tarvin watched him roll in the saddle, chuckled a little, and followed.
"Of course it was when the saddle turned.
Those" she pointed scornfully toward the lights of Rhatore "have never seen the wheat wave, or heard the wind blow, or sat in a saddle, or talked face to face with men in the streets.
"Kill him, Juggut Singh I" gasped the Queen, pointing to Tarvin, as the eunuch scrambled into his saddle.
He put his arms about her and swung her into the saddle.
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