The rapidity of her glide into this position was that of a kingfisher--its noiselessness that of a hawk.

Gabriel's eyes had scarcely been able to follow her.

The tall lank pony seemed used to such doings, and ambled along unconcerned.

Thus she passed under the level boughs.
The performer seemed quite at home anywhere between a horse's head and its tail, and the necessity for this abnormal attitude having ceased with the passage of the plantation, she began to adopt another, even more obviously convenient than the first.

She had no side-saddle, and it was very apparent that a firm seat upon the smooth leather beneath her was unattainable sideways.