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Back and forth from the store at one end of the street to the blacksmith shop at the other they rode, yelling till their throats ached and shooting till their gun-barrels were hot; and Weary kept pace with them and out-yelled and out-shot the most energetic, and never once forgot the little ceremony of shoving in fresh shells after the third shot.
As they set forward, a company of horsemen rode out, and got upon their flanks "and fired at us all the way, though they would not come within reach of our guns; for their own reached farther than ours, and out-shot us more than one third."
The rush of the guard across the stone court, the clang of opening lattices, and the voices that called from out-shot heads, again filled her ears, but she never once peeped from her window. A moment, and the news was all over the castle that the prisoner had escaped. Lord Charles went at once to his father's room. The old man woke instantly.
At last the company targets were decided, and Tepus, as was expected, led the score, having made six exact centers in succession. Gilbert of the White Hand followed with five, and Clifton with four. Two other captains had touched their center four times, but not roundly. While in the other companies it so chanced that the captains had been out-shot by some of the men under them.
This stimulated the knight's emulation: young Gamwell supplied him with a bow and arrow, and he took his station among the foresters, but had the mortification to be out-shot by them all, and to see one of them lodge the point of his arrow in the golden ring of the centre, and receive the prize from the hand of the beautiful Matilda, who smiled on him with particular grace.
The rush of the guard across the stone court, the clang of opening lattices, and the voices that called from out-shot heads, again filled her ears, but she never once peeped from her window. A moment, and the news was all over the castle that the prisoner had escaped. Lord Charles went at once to his father's room. The old man woke instantly.
He's out-ridden me, out-shot me, out-gamed me, out-lucked me, out-guessed me and taken Sally. He's mine. He b'longs all to me. D'you see that?" "I'm only seein' one thing just now." "I know. You think I'm double-crossin' you. Maybe I am, but I'm desperate, Glendin." "After all," mused the deputy, "you'd be simply doin' work I'd have to do later. You're right about this Bard.
But at the end of the hour, the Asterisks, who had been hugely enjoying the performance, and particularly the cessation of German bombs, were horrified to hear a double report from the German trench, and to see two dark blobs fall twinkling from the sky. The following hour was a nightmare. Their trench-mortar was completely out-shot.
He then brought Hacket into a little out-shot behind the room in which the scales were, and shutting the door, thus proceeded in a sweet, confidential kind of whisper "You see, Harry, what I'm goin' to say to you is what I'd not say to e'er another in the parish, the divil a one God pardon me for swearin' amin a Chiernah!
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