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"Let the tyrant Edward exult in the possession of our country's crown and sceptre he may find we need not them to make a king; aye, and a king to snatch the regal diadem from the proud usurper's brow the Scottish sceptre from his blood-stained hands!" "Thou talkest wildly, Nigel," answered the lad, sorrowfully, his features assuming an expression of judgment and feeling beyond his years.
D'Iberville shouted orders to the gunners to fire straight into the Hampshire's hull; sharpshooters were to rake the decks of the two off-standing English ships, and the Indians were to stand ready to board. Two hours passed in sidling and shifting; then the death grapple began. Ninety dead and wounded Frenchmen rolled on the Pelican's blood-stained decks. The fallen sails were blazing.
Our defeat meant that the government must pass into the blood-stained hands of rebels, men whose designs were more than doubtful, and who could not, even if their designs had been good, restrain the violence of their followers. In consequence we strained every nerve. Money was freely spent, even to an amount much in excess of our resources. How it was employed, I will not say.
They made no noise gliding down the steep snow bank upon their long shoes, and then out upon the ice of the lake. "Fire!" exclaimed Stark at the right moment; and as one man the Rangers halted, and each picked his man. Crack-crack-crack! Literally each bullet told. Twelve dusky savages bounded into the air, and fell dead upon the blood-stained snow. Crack-crack-crack!
Pater has deliberately omitted this episode, which is indeed like a spot of blood-stained mud upon some perfect tissue of silver flowers on silver ground. It is a piece of cruellest realism, because quite quiet and unforced, in the midst of a kind of fairy-land idyl of almost childish love, the love of the beautiful son of the lord of Beaucaire for a beautiful Saracen slave girl.
In blood has it been baptised, and through blood-stained paths shall its course be taken." "Ha!" shrieked Bess, noticing for the first time the ensanguined condition of the infant's attire. "Cuthbert's blood oh!" "Listen to me, wicked woman," pursued the abbot, as if filled with a prophetic spirit.
For some days after leaving Ratinga a stiff breeze enabled the schooner which had been re-named by its crew the "Free Rover" to proceed southward rapidly. Then a profound calm succeeded, and for a couple of days the vessel lay almost motionless on the sea. During all this time the poor maniac in her hold lay upon his blood-stained couch, for no one dared at least no one cared to approach him.
Dark walls that embrace so many tear-stained, blood-stained, holy and dishonoured shrines! And you, narrow and gloomy gates, through whose portals so many myriads of mankind have passed with their swords, their staves, their burdens and their palm-branches!
Henrica recognized in the speaker the musician Wilhelm, but only by his voice, for the morion on his curls and the blood-stained coat of mail gave the unassuming artist a martial, nay heroic air. He had advanced a long way in his story, when Henrica unseen became a listener.
"England has not done her share!" How many thousands of British dead men from every county in England and Scotland, from loyal Ireland, from every British dominion and colony lie within the circuit of these blood-stained hills of Ypres?
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