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You might as well ask me to tear away the limbs from my body, and the eyes out of my head. I could as well live without breath itself as cease loving Angelica." Agrican had hardly patience to let him finish speaking, ere he leapt furiously on horseback, though it was midnight. "Quit her," said he, "or die!"
The deck was wide enough for each to have fair play for his sword, and in vain the pirates strove to obtain a footing. At last Sir Marmaduke Lumley fell, severely wounded by an arrow from a Moslem marksman, and before the others could close the gap a score of pirates leapt on to the deck. "Fall back, comrades, fall back; but keep together!"
Cairn leapt after him; but Ferrara, suddenly beginning to run, reached the end of the Egyptian Room and darted out on to the landing, before his pursuer had time to realise what he was about. At the moment that Ferrara turned the corner ahead of him, Cairn saw something drop.
Our whole line was fighting well, and this first attack had brought no faltering on either side. Then said Eadmund to me: "Let us make a dash for my stepfather yonder," pointing to Cnut and even as he said it the brave bishop on his left threw up his arms and fell from his horse, smitten in the face with a javelin, and Eadmund leapt down to help him.
In an instant he was up and had leapt to the window, where his fingers fumbled with the safety-pin that held the curtains together. No tell-tale mark of his presence must be left. But where should he hide? The sounds were becoming more distinct every second; no escape seemed possible.
Prospective buyers had examined but not dared to purchase. But Mulcachy had been undeterred. His own fighting blood leapt hot at sight of the magnificent striped cat. It was a challenge of the brute in him to excel. And, two weeks of hell, for the great tiger and for all the other animals, were required to teach him his first lesson.
Then, while the air rang with shouts and cries and the clatter of trampling hoofs, a white figure leapt and bestrode the fallen knight, and Walkyn glared down into the pale face of Friar Martin. "Forbear, Walkyn, forbear!" he cried, and speaking, staggered for very weakness and would have fallen but Walkyn's long arm was about him.
The very palms Bowed down their heads In welcome to the coming King. The shy Jabizri brings him picture-words Of great distress. See how he tears the mountain like a yam! See how the lost ones Dance forth to greet the day! He waved his hand and lo! Lightning leapt from cloudless skies; The sun leant down; And Fire was born!
Close against it lay another dark object. "Horse down!" snapped Yorke tersely. "Hell!" he added, "looks like a man there, too! come on quick!" Responding to a shake of the lines and a fierce thrust of the spurs, their horses leapt forward and they raced towards their objective.
He followed, but Seti, crying, "Ah, I thought it," leapt between them, as he did so drawing the iron sword which he wore with his ceremonial dress. At him he sprang and the next thing I saw was the red point of the sword standing out beyond the priest's shoulders. Down he fell, babbling: "Is this how you show your love for Israel, Prince?" "It is how I show my hate of murderers," answered Seti.
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