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His prayer is heard. From the heaven of heavens an angelic envoy is despatched to the Assyrian encampment, and with the flaming sword of almighty indignation, smites a hundred and eighty-five thousand of the boasting foe; "and when they arose early in the morning, behold they were all dead corpses."
A stubborn fight ensued within the ravelin, where the duke's men were held in check by the defenders, and not until some four hundred corpses choked that narrow space did the besieged give ground before them. Like most of the Italian fortresses of the period, the castle of Forli consisted of a citadel within a citadel.
When night came, he would return and fetch An-Tak this far at least; but in the meantime it was his intention to reconnoiter in the hope that he might discover some easier way out of the city than that offered by the chill, black channel of the ghastly river of corpses.
All that he had felt till then, all his love and pain, changed in him to one desire for death. Just then near his side was heard the overseer of the "Putrid Pits", "How many corpses have ye to-day?" "About a dozen," answered the guardian of the prison, "but there will be more before morning; some are in agony at the walls."
"Those fires, which seem to you to announce a hospitable shelter, appear to me to be full of danger." "And why so?" "Remy," said Henri, lowering his voice, "look at these corpses; they are all French there is not one Fleming; they announce to us a great disaster.
The loss of the division of Jabaster was also severe, but the rest of the army suffered little. Alroy himself was slightly wounded. The battle lasted barely three hours. Its results were immense. David Alroy was now master of the East. The plain was covered with the corpses of men and horses, arms and standards, and prostrate tents.
You got a gang of mossbacks sitting on your head who don't get a live idea among 'em wunst a year. Why, the archangel Gabriel wouldn't have a show with a lot of corpses like them! Of course it ain't my business to give advice to a man like you, and I'm probably offendin' you sayin' this, but someway you don't seem to see what's so plain to everybody else.
He had passed into the town unchallenged. The fatigue parties, hunting by twos and threes among the ruins of the river-front for corpses to burn or bury, doubtless supposed him to be about the same business. At any rate, they paid him no attention. Just within the walls, where the conflagration had burnt itself out, there were patches of black shadow to be crossed carefully.
Then the three princes said they would all go home. The Amadan told them to go, but warned them not to light up the castle this night, and said he would sit by the giants' corpses and watch if they came to life again. The three princes begged of him not to do this, for the three giants would come to life, and then he, having no help, would be killed.
And men, as soon as their thought commenced to issue from the primeval night, were haunted by the idea that there were localities helpful, as if were, to the poor corpses that lay beneath the earth, that there were certain holy places where it behoved them to be buried if they wished to be ready when the signal of awakening was given.
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