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So they laid Hubert of Erdington very reverently upon that trampled field he had maintained so well. "A right noble knight, my lord," quoth Prat, shaking gloomy head, "but for him, methinks our pikemen would have broke to their third onset!" "There is no man of you hath not fought like ten men this day!" said Beltane, leaning on his sword and with head a-droop. "Have we lost many, know ye?"
Beltane's dagger was out and he rose up from the fern, crouched and strung for action but from the gloom near by rose a sudden, strange flurry amid the leaves, a whimpering sound evil to hear and swiftly ended, a groan, a cry choked to strangling gasp and thereafter silence, save for the fitful wailing of the wind a long, breathless pause; then, high and clear rose the cry of an owl thrice repeated, and presently small Prat was beside him in the fern again.
But now Ulf uttered a joyful cry and pointed with his axe-shaft. "Yonder cometh Roger, lord, and with him the little archer, but whom bring they?" Very slowly they came, Roger and Prat the archer, up-bearing betwixt them good Sir Hubert of Erdington, his harness hacked and broken, his battered helm a-swing upon its thongs, his eyes a-swoon in the pallor of his face.
His reign was to be a reaction from that of Louis XII. From the beginning, Francois chose his chief officers unwisely. In Antoine du Prat, his new chancellor, he had a violent and lawless adviser; in Charles de Bourbon, his new constable, an untrustworthy commander.
His reign was to be a reaction from that of Louis XII. From the beginning, Francois chose his chief officers unwisely. In Antoine du Prat, his new chancellor, he had a violent and lawless adviser; in Charles de Bourbon, his new constable, an untrustworthy commander.
"Uncle, uncle!" said the young earls, "send Winter, Geri, Leofwin Prat, any of your fellows: but not yourself. If we lose you, we lose our head and our king." And all prayed Hereward to let any man go, rather than himself. "I am going, lords and knights; and what Hereward says he does. It is one day to Brandon.
Robert Ellis. Ambrose Viccars. Thomas Archard. Thomas Humfrey. Thomas Smart. George How. Iohn Prat. William Wythers. Children borne in Virginia. Virginia Dare. Haruie. Sauages that were in England and returned home into Virginia with them. Manteo. Towaye. XXXII. A letter from John White to M. Richard Hakluyt.
Commander Arturo Prat, the captain of the Esmeralda, was at this time only thirty-one years of age, but was the senior officer of the two ships; the Covadonga was commanded by Carlos Condell, whose name has also passed into history. As has been said, Admiral Williams, having kept too close in under the land, altogether missed the Peruvian fleet, which escorted President Prado safely into Arica.
"But," said Leofwin Prat, "if we have no artillery, we can make some." "Spoken like yourself, good comrade. If we only knew how." "I know," said Torfrida. "I have read of such things in books of the ancients, and I have watched them making continually, I little knew why, or that I should ever turn engineer." "What is there that you do not know?" cried they all at once.
"I carried letters from the Chevalier du Prat of Cape Town, but I am inclined to believe that my friend Cypriano was influenced by feelings of genuine kindness excited by my wretched appearance."
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