They all looked from the coachman to the
guard, and from the
guard to the coachman, and listened.
The
guard, who is alone with him on the back of the coach, is silent, but has muffled Tom's feet up in straw, and put the end of an oat-sack over his knees.
The
guard lolled before the unbarred gate of the cage which confined me.
GUARD Babbler perchance, but innocent of the crime.
The
guard raised his hat and departed without another word.
There was only one other place in the river for a fish-trap, but, when my father and I and a dozen other men started to make a very large trap, the
guards came from the big grass-house we had built for Dog-Tooth.
'As quickly as my uncle said the words, the
guard appeared at the coach window, with the gentleman's sword in his hand.
Two turnkeys, an inspector, and three or four
guards, made their appearance all at once, and found Cornelius still using the stick, with the knife under his foot.
As assassination is the one thing to be feared, the proprietors of the hostelries furnish armed
guards, who pace back and forth through the sleeping-rooms day and night.
"I do not understand it," said Don Quixote; but one of the
guards said to him, "Sir, to sing under suffering means with the non sancta fraternity to confess under torture; they put this sinner to the torture and he confessed his crime, which was being a cuatrero, that is a cattle-stealer, and on his confession they sentenced him to six years in the galleys, besides two bundred lashes that he has already had on the back; and he is always dejected and downcast because the other thieves that were left behind and that march here ill-treat, and snub, and jeer, and despise him for confessing and not having spirit enough to say nay; for, say they, 'nay' has no more letters in it than
Deliberations were being held when a lieutenant in the
guards, named Comminges, made his appearance, with his clothes all torn, his face streaming with blood.
Guards, musketeers, officers, soldiers, murmurs, uneasiness, dispersed, vanished, died away; there was an end of menace and sedition.
