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If a diary of the events of their pioneer-lives had been kept by each of these brave and faithful women, what a record of toil and warfare and suffering it would present. How many different types of female character in different spheres of action it would show the self-sacrificing mother, the tender and devoted wife, the benevolent matron, the heroine who blenched not in battle!
Then she lay very still, white to the lips, and Prosper knew that she was dead. So in his own dream he cried out and tried to come at her, but could not because of the red sword. He woke in a cold sweat and lay trembling, blenched with fear. The dream had been so vivid that involuntarily he turned in his bed to look again at what haunted him, the dying eyes, the white body, and the blood.
I blenched, I felt, at this sudden thrust. Had his familiar informed him of my interview? 'It will be a sair blow to him, I said, with apparent unconcern, 'but it cannot affect him directly. 'No affect him? returned my uncle, seemingly shocked at my indifference, 'not when he was aye hand an' glove wi' him? 'He was no his bairn, I retorted, hastily finishing off my "parritch" with a gulp.
"All knew that a strange country was to be explored, and dangers and hardships to be encountered; but no one blenched at the prospect. On the contrary, courage and confidence animated the whole party.
He snapped his fingers under the lawyer's nose and Lapham drew back, startled. "Then in that case," stated Wunpost, "I don't get anything and I'm the man that discovered it! But I'll tell you, my merry men, there's another law yet, when a man is sure he's right!" He tapped his six-shooter and even Lynch blenched, for the fighting light had come into his eyes.
Finally he quivers all over, swings very slowly back, and drives the ball for about a hundred and fifty yards in a dead straight line. It is a method of procedure which proves sometimes a little exasperating to the highly strung, and I watched Mitchell's face anxiously to see how he was taking his first introduction to it. The unhappy lad had blenched visibly.
The ranks were so near that the change from living human beings into mangled pieces of flesh and rags could clearly be seen. More than one veteran gunner felt squeamish at the sight. But the rear squadrons, though their horses' hoofs were squelching in the blood of their comrades of a moment before, never blenched or faltered but swept on at a thundering gallop. Again the guns spoke, and again.
"The concession," he remarked, "is granted to Scarlett Trent and to one Monty jointly. Who is this Monty, and what has he to say to it?" Trent set his teeth hard, and he never blenched. "He was my partner, but he died in the swamps, poor chap. We had horrible weather coming back. It pretty near finished me."
The Governor, and the gentlemen of his party, perceiving themselves brought to an unexpected stand, rode hastily forward, as if they would have pressed their snorting and affrighted horses right against the hoary apparition. He, however, blenched not a step, but glancing his severe eye round the group, which half encompassed him, at last bent it sternly on Sir Edmund Andros.
He turned to Milo, who happened to be near him. 'Where is the little lady? he asked him. Milo looked out of the window. 'My lord, he said, 'she is in the orchard at this moment; and I think the Countess is with her. Richard blenched, as if he had been struck with a whip. Collecting himself, he turned and looked down through the window to the leafy orchard below.
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