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Paaker blew up the tinder, laid it in the bole under the parapet, and then, unmindful of his own danger, raised himself to listen for any further words. "I entreat thee," said the Regent, approaching Rameses, "to excuse me. I fully appreciate thy favors, but the labors of the last few days have been too much for me; I can hardly stand on my feet, and the guard of honor "
The agent turned surlily away, but the Squire looked at both with an unmistakable eagerness. "There's no doubt whatever that Oliver fell from the parapet," said Copplestone. "The marks of a fall are there quite unmistakably." Greyle nodded, but made no remark, and the two made their way through the still eager crowd and went down to the village post-office.
However, want of courage was not one of his failings. He bounded blindly forward by himself. Try as he would he could not overtake the raiding party. However, this mattered little, for suddenly a parapet loomed before him. In this same parapet, low down, Nigg beheld a black and gaping aperture plainly a loophole of some kind.
An officer stood alone on the terrace, pulling at some ropes around a pole on the parapet. "What what is that?" stammered Lorraine, as a white flag shot up along the flag-staff and fluttered drearily over the wall. "Lorraine!" cried Jack; but she sprang to the pole and tore the ropes free. The white flag fell to the ground. The officer turned to her, his face whiter than the flag.
The heart never deceives; I feel it now whispering in my ear: 'Skulking captain, white-livered soldier, that stand behind a parapet while a better man does your work! you assassinate the husband, but the rival conquers you. There, he puts his hand to his eyes. What shall I do?" "Colonel," said a low voice, and at the same time a hand was laid on his shoulder. It was General Raimbaut.
What awaited them they would know only when they climbed over the parapet and became silhouettes of vulnerable flesh in the open.
Above this is the belfry, with two pairs of two-light windows on each face: these are divided by transoms, and the arches at the tops are four centred. These windows are, of course, not glazed, but are furnished with louvre-boards. The tower is finished with a battlemented parapet.
Let us listen to the question or is it the demand? of the desert in this noontide hour, the greatest hour of all the twenty-four in such a land as this." They were silent again, watching the noon, listening to it, feeling it, as they had been silent when the Mueddin's nasal voice rose in the call to prayer. Count Anteoni stood in the sunshine by the low white parapet of the garden.
They magnify the object aimed at many diameters, and if it remains in view long enough to permit the pulling of a trigger, the chances of a hit are almost one hundred per cent. Snipers have a roving commission. They move from one part of the line to another, sometimes firing from carefully concealed loopholes in the parapet, sometimes from snipers' nests in trees or hedges.
She had gained that north rampart on which he had announced that duty took him, and yonder she saw a man -the only tenant of the wall leaning upon the embattled parapet, looking down at the lights of Gian Maria's camp. He was bareheaded, and by the gold coif that gleamed in his hair she knew him. Softly she stole up behind him.
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