he shouted to a young peasant, who drove by, standing in the front of an empty cart, shaking the cord reins.
the lad shouted back, pulling in the horse, and, smiling, he looked round at a bright, rosy-checked peasant girl who sat in the cart smiling too, and drove on.
Get in, I'll take you all," Mikolka shouted again, leaping first into the cart, seizing the reins and standing straight up in front.
Two young fellows in the cart were just getting whips ready to help Mikolka.
That soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a
cart.
To which the devil, stopping the
cart, answered quietly, "Senor, we are players of Angulo el Malo's company; we have been acting the play of 'The Cortes of Death' this morning, which is the octave of Corpus Christi, in a village behind that hill, and we have to act it this afternoon in that village which you can see from this; and as it is so near, and to save the trouble of undressing and dressing again, we go in the costumes in which we perform.
In a moment they had passed the slow
cart with the box, and disappeared behind the shoulder of the hill.
The horse, whose health had been drunk in his absence, was standing outside: ready harnessed to the
cart.
And in a low voice, as the
cart went slowly along through the midst of the gazing crowd, she poured forth her soul with the wrestling intensity of a last pleading, for the trembling creature that clung to her and clutched her as the only visible sign of love and pity.
cracked his whip, and drove his
cart over the poor dog, so that the wheels crushed him to death.
Could you sell me your meat, your
cart, your mare, and your good-will, without loss, for five marks?
Instantly I stepped out into the street, picked up the box, and replaced it in the
cart: in the next moment the bicycle had spun round the corner, passed the
cart without let or hindrance, and soon vanished in the distance, in a cloud of dust.
