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He could see Blackbeard charge aft to rally his men and then whirl back to lunge into the mêlée where towered Colonel Stuart's tall figure. The powder smoke from pistols and muskets drifted in a thin blue haze. Joe Hawkridge was fairly shaking with nervousness as he said to the skipper: "There'll be no clearing the decks 'less they down that monster of a Cap'n Teach.
Richard showed himself wherever the Christians had need of his succour; his presence was always followed by the flight of the Turks. So confused was the mêlée, so thick the dust, so vehement the fight, that many of the Crusaders fell by the blows of their comrades, who mistook them for enemies. Torn standards, shivered lances, broken swords, strewed the plain.
How astonishing was that last European field of Solferino, ten miles in sweep, with the balloon floating above it for its spy and scout, with the thread-like wire trailing in the grass, and the lightning coursing back and forth, Napoleon's ubiquitous aide-de-camp, with railway-trains, bringing reinforcements into the midst of the melée, and their steam-whistle shrieking amid the thunders of battle!
"I thought you would come to me, Doctor Blecker." "Call me Paul," roughly. "I was coarser born and bred than you. I want to think that matters nothing to you." She looked up proudly. "You know it matters nothing. I am not vulgar." "No, Grey. But it is curious, but no one ever called me Paul, as boy or man. It is a sign of equality; and I've always had, in the mélée, the underneath taint about me.
The words were hardly out of his mouth when, with a terrific shout, a volley was poured into the unprepared Arabs, and a frightful mêlée ensued as the rest of the patrol, headed by the sergeant, charged to the rescue. In the confusion Forsyth and Helmar sprang on to their horses Brian was beyond their help and galloped towards their friends.
The five sailors aloft had been terrified and helpless witnesses to the massacre beneath them. That they must do something for their own lives they now realized. Making their way aft by means of the rigging, they swung themselves to the deck and dashed for the steerage hatch. The attention of the savages had been diverted from them by the mêlée on deck.
"Rebecca," he replied, "thou knowest not how impossible it is for one trained to actions of chivalry to remain passive as a priest, or a woman, when they are acting deeds of honour around him. The love of battle is the food upon which we live the dust of the 'melee' is the breath of our nostrils!
Two of the young esquires, Richard Coningsby and Edward Clifford, had fought in the melee, having been among the ten leaders under Clarence Aylmer. They bore no malice for the defeat, but received Walter with cordiality and kindness, as did the other young men. Walter on his arrival acquainted the knight with Ralph's wish to follow him, and requested permission for him to do so.
The latter let out a vicious drive with his left that caught Mick under the ear and sent him down like a bullock. In a second the whole crowd surged together in one confused melee, everybody hitting at everybody amid a Babel of shouts and curses.
Bearing down on the crippled vessel at full speed, in spite of the bellowing discharge from the great gun, and a well-delivered volley of small shot, which stretched many of them on the deck, they ran straight against her, threw grappling-irons into the rigging, and sprang on board with a fierce yell. The melee that followed was sharp, but very short and decisive.
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