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With one supreme and final effort, the dying man lurched forward and threw himself wildly toward the sound. His hand, brandishing the dagger, was uplifted and seemed about to descend on his foe; but at that very instant, with a frightful imprecation upon his lips, the gigantic form collapsed, the knife dropped from the hand, and he plunged, a corpse, into the arms of his intended victim.
Lord Findon watched her with mingled smiles and chagrin. How charmingly she was dressed to-night his poor Eugénie! And how beautifully she moved! with what grace and sweetness! As he turned to do his duty by an elderly countess near him, he stifled a sigh that was also an imprecation. It had often been said of Eugénie de Pastourelles that she possessed a social magic.
"There's got to be a Boss City hereaway on this end of the lake," said the captain of the little boat; and though he spoke with much labour of imprecation, both needless then and now, taking what might be termed a cursory view of the situation, he summed up the prospects of Duluth conclusively and clearly enough. I cannot say I enjoyed a stay of two days in Duluth.
Some curious fortune of the battle had made this gentle little meadow the object of the red hate of the shells, and each one as it exploded seemed like an imprecation in the face of a maiden. The wounded officer who was riding across this expanse said to himself: "Why, they couldn't shoot any harder if the whole army was massed here!"
Then his imperious will asserted itself, and with an imprecation on his weakness he returned to the nearest silent form, and took from it a limp felt hat, a coat, and a pair of boots, all much the worse for wear; and having arrayed himself in these, started on the trail of the Union force.
The driver drew in the horses with an imprecation. Arch picked himself up, and stood recovering his scattered senses, leaning against a lamp-post. "Served ye right!" said the coachman roughly. "You'd no business to be running befront of folkses carriages." "Stop!" said a clear voice inside the coach. "What has occurred, Peter?" "Only a ragged boy knocked down; but he's up again all right.
Even the big, blubbering lad so lately crazed with fear unslung his weapon and fired thrice into empty space, and a shout of wrath and renewed challenge to "come back and fight it out" rang out after the Sioux, for to the amaze of the lately besieged, to the impotent fury of the Irishman, in unmistakable, yet mostly unquotable, English, the crippled warrior was yelling mingled threat and imprecation.
The very populace were captivated by it, and began to clap their hands, crying, "Noel! Noel!" It was at that moment that the recluse caught sight, from the window of her bole, of the gypsy on the pillory, and hurled at her her sinister imprecation, "Accursed be thou, daughter of Egypt! Accursed! accursed!" La Esmeralda turned pale and descended from the pillory, staggering as she went.
With a light leap the lad dropped over the railing into the hall, and, taking a step forward, lunged swiftly in the darkness from where came the sound of a muttered imprecation. There was a stifled groan, and the second soldier dropped to the floor. Hal made his way back to the parlor, where the German officer still stood, trying to bind up his injured hand with a handkerchief.
"Then wait come in here," he said, drawing her into a little anteroom. He ran back up the stairs and burst into the room he had just left, with an imprecation. "Their Majesties have flashed in the pan," he said to the gentlemen who crowded about him. "'Tis no use to wait longer. D'Angrémont is taken.
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