But I need living
companions, who will follow me because they want to follow themselves--and to the place where I will.
He rode, not a mule, like his
companion, but a strong hackney for the road, to save his gallant war-horse, which a squire led behind, fully accoutred for battle, with a chamfrom or plaited head-piece upon his bead, having a short spike projecting from the front.
"I will not only swear that I will not speak of it," said Biscarrat, "but I still further swear that I will do everything in the world to prevent my
companions from setting foot in the grotto."
These were no other than four very dismal dogs, who came pattering in one after the other, headed by an old bandy dog of particularly mournful aspect, who, stopping when the last of his followers had got as far as the door, erected himself upon his hind legs and looked round at his
companions, who immediately stood upon their hind legs, in a grave and melancholy row.
Pierre looked again at the
companion's pale, delicate face with its black eyes and peculiar mouth, and something near to him, long forgotten and more than sweet, looked at him from those attentive eyes.
He bolted out of the
companion straight into his captain who took the flare from him and held it high above his head.
"Sure, Mike," responded his
companion in tones of conviction.
"Come, Ellen," cried the youth, seizing his
companion by the hand, "let us make a trial for the encampment."
"You are very silent to-day, mesdemoiselles," she said, after advancing a little way among her
companions. "Good-morning, my little Laure," she added, in a soft, caressing voice, approaching the young girl who was painting apart from the rest.
My
companion shouts at the highest pitch of his voice.
"Doubtless," returned the gentleman, gravely, and for the first time withdrawing his gaze from the countenance of Charlotte; but the precaution was unnecessary:--the young lady had been too much engrossed with her own sensations to notice the conduct of others, and from the moment that the carriage had driven out of right, had kept her eyes on the ground, as she walked silently and unobtrusively by the side of her
companion.
It will not be doubted that the next morning we were early risers, and as soon as I could catch the faintest glimpse of anything like daylight I shook my
companion by the arm, and told him it was sunrise.
The young man, although he could not ignore his
companion's unsociable instincts, was fidgety.
Before the stranger could make any reply to this unexpected proposition, another horseman dashed the bushes aside, and leaped his charger into the pathway, in front of his
companion.
The youth glancing at his
companion could see by the shadow of a smile that he was making some kind of fun.
