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Corporal Truman, take Ensign Shields' sword!" The young man was quickly disarmed, and once more the captain vociferated: "Knock down and disarm that vixen! Obey your orders, villains! Or by h l, and all its fiends, I'll have you all court-martialed, and shot before to-morrow noon!" The soldiers closed around the unprotected girl.
So they flew at the witches, and these flashed up like fire into their own dreadful forms of female fiends. Then there was a terrible tumult, for never before in the land of the Wabanaki had there been such a battle. All the earth and rocks around were torn up. All the while the Master cried to the dogs, "Stop! These are my sisters. Come off, ye evil beasts! Let them alone! Cease, oh cease!"
Well, it was my turn to watch, so I went up, an' just as I puts my fut on the first step o' the lantern-ladder there comes a sea like wot we had a minit ago; the wind at the same time roared in the wentilators like a thousand fiends, and the spray dashed agin the glass. Junk gave a yell, and dived.
But the third cause of exemption could not be outdone by the legislation of fiends. 'DYING under MODERATE correction! MODERATE correction and DEATH cause and effect!
"And any moment those fiends may come and drag him out to his death." Just then, as if in answer to his unspoken prayer, an unexpected sound arose. Poor little Dick, in sore straits, was striving to keep up his courage by whistling "Soldiers of Our Queen!" Hugh's heart leaped within him.
Methinks I see the fiends crowding round the bed for their prey. They wait but for me to go. And I go." He turned his back; but Ghysbrecht, in extremity of terror, caught him by the frock. "Oh, holy man, mercy! stay. I will confess all, all.
All this they did not for an instant note, so thorough was their confusion; but seeing it directly, they, so far from giving up, concentrated all their energy and fought like fiends.
In accordance with the customary pogrom ritual, the human fiends were left undisturbed for two days, and only on the third day were troops summoned from a near-by city to put a stop to the atrocities. On the same day the governor of Podolia arrived to make an investigation.
I refrained from speaking to any one for I feared my condition, wretched as it was, might be rendered even worse, if possible by the fiends who had entire power over me. "O my God!" said I to myself, "why was I born? O give my soul patience to suffer every pain."
With all the vividness of a thing seen, he described its flames, its fiends, the terrible stink of burning flesh and the vast chorus of agony that filled it.… And for some obscure reason or purpose he always spoke of hell as the special punishment of murderers. Again and again in his discourse he coupled murder and hell. Ramon was wearied by strong emotions and a shortness of sleep.
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