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Strange! the smile of scorn, while nerveless dropped the sword-arm from the sting, On the death that scowled at distance, on the closing murder-ring. Strange! no crimson stain on conscience from the hand in gore imbrued! But Death haunts the death-dealer; blood taints the life of blood!
But God heal the tortured spirit, God calm the maddened mood; For Death haunts the death-dealer; blood taints the life of blood!" Relaxing but not releasing her grasp of my own hand, she felt about with her left till Esmo gently placed his own therein.
Officers and men were doubled up with mirth as they watched the acrobatic antics of this mechanical marvel this Wellsian wonder. Now the metal monster was on the move again. It was advancing on the German position. The Bosche machine-guns got busy and poured a very hail of shells and bullets upon the oncoming death-dealer. It made no difference.
By now the earthborn men were springing up over all the field; and the plot of Ares, the death-dealer, bristled with sturdy shields and double-pointed spears and shining helmets; and the gleam reached Olympus from beneath, flashing through the air.
The Inca of Peru stood at the door of his tent and surveyed Black Jack, who was not more than a few feet away from him. 'Have a glass of my elixir, he said to the death-dealer; 'no one in this town needs it more than thee, by all accounts. Have a glass, and live for ever. Only sixpence. The man in the cart laughed aloud. 'I've nowt on me not a farden, he answered, in a strong grating voice.
Strength shall sustain the strengthless, nor the soft hand loose its grasp Of the hand it trusts and clings to till another meet its clasp.... Steel-hard to man's last anguish, wax-soft to woman's mood! Death quits not the death-dealer; blood haunts the life of blood!" Returning to the peristyle, I encountered Eveena, who had been seeking me anxiously.
"Strange! the arm that smote and spared not in the tempest of the strife, Quivers with pitying terror clings, for a maiden's life! Strange! the heart steel-hard to death-shrieks by girlish tears subdued; The falcon's sheathless talons among the esve's brood! But Death haunts the death-dealer; blood taints the life of blood.
Her love of Alvan now was mixed with an alluring terror of him as an immediate death-dealer who stood against red-streaked heavens, more grandly satanic in his angry mightiness than she had ever realized that figure, and she, trembled and shuddered, fearing to meet him, yearning to be taken to him, to close her eyes on his breast in blindest happiness. She gave the very sob for the occasion.
So be pleased to put that death-dealer back into its place, and to tell us before we reply to you, what you know of Set of the Egyptians." "As much or as little as you do," I replied. Both bowed as though this information were of the most satisfactory order.
"By all the saints in the calendar," swore he in a transport of passion, "you little know whom you are talking to! I have a tongue and a fist, my friend; and am not afraid of Sangrado, who with all his arrogance and affectation is but a ninny." The size of the little death-dealer made me hold his anger cheap.
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