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"I feel like it to-day, Kathleen; let me turn back in my own footsteps if I can. I've been trying so very hard to to get back to where there was no no terror in the world." "I know. But, darling, you won't run into any danger, will you?" "Do you call a hard-hit beast a danger? I've wounded a more terrible one than any boar that ever bristled. I'm trying to kill something more terrifying.
No collisions of any kind took place; no ill humour was visible. The Republicans seemed to enjoy the jokes and squibs and flaunting mottoes of the Democrats; and when a Republican banner appeared with the legend, "No frigid North, no torrid South, no temperate East, no Sackville West," nobody appeared to relish it more than the hard-hit Democrat.
Already it was slanting lower toward the forest like a hard-hit duck, wing-crippled, fighting desperately for flight-power to the very end. Then the inland mist engulfed it.
The old man was leaning against the wheel. His brow was puckered; and there was a tense, breathless air about his face. It came to the boy with a shock of surprise that a man hard-hit makes just the same sort of face as a man who has got one on the funny bone at cricket. "Are you hurt?" he asked anxiously. "Nay, I'm none hurt, but I am hit.
Bat meets ball with a smack which echoes from the Tennis-Court to the stands across the ground. Now watch Scaife! He dashes at top speed for the only point where his hands may intercept that hard-hit ball. And, by Heaven! he stops it, and flicks it up to the wicket-keeper, who chips off the bails. "How's that?" "Not out!" "Well fielded; well fielded, sir!"
It was clear that he was hard-hit, and just as clear that he meant going through to the finish. Behind him three Grenadiers, one behind the other, strung out across the green. The Parson coursed the last of them; the Gentleman coursed the Parson. They were all running swiftly, but the last two were the swiftest. The Parson was gaining on the Grenadier, and the Gentleman on the Parson.
"It's expensive and cumbersome also to carry such a hospital system afield," Peter observed. Dabnitz did not catch the irony. "Yes, it would be cheaper and simpler to put a hard-hit soldier out of his misery "
Such of the residents as were not home-bound by the authorities, growled in saloon back rooms and muttered in the streets. Hatred of the "Clarion" was the burden of their bitterness. Two of its reporters were mobbed in the hard-hit ward, the day after the publication of the first article. Nor was the paper much better liked elsewhere. It was held responsible for all the troubles.
I was thinking I'd gang all the way to London without coming across a man worth fighting, much less friending, but I was in the wrang of it. Here's to ye!" "My lord," said I, "you match your sweet lady. Both of you have been wondrous kind to a hard-hit man." We gripped hands, saluted, and parted.
"Ah, poor young gentleman, he's one of the hard-hit ones." "How is the old man?" asked Amyas, after a pause. "Bears it well enough, sir; but a changed man. Never speaks to a soul, if he can help it. Some folk say he's not right in his head; or turned miser, or somewhat, and takes naught but bread and water, and sits up all night in the room as was hers, turning over her garments.
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