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Off he flew, more than anxious to get out of; range from the vengeful fire that pursued him. Another groan from Stanley. Blaine, looking back, saw the lad crumpling up with a new red stain trickling down his scalp. "How I would like to help him!" thought the pilot. "But the only chance for either of us is to keep on and get out of this hell."
The farmer's face was still terrible to look upon, but the purple stain of passion was now turned to red. There was a mocking insolence in his tone as he addressed us, that matched with the woman's unconcealed glee. "Will you not come in, mesdames? Will you not rest a while after your long walk?"
An altar of holiness, free from all stain, The Muses in silence upreared; And all that was noble and worthy, again In woman's chaste bosom appeared; The bright flame of song was soon kindled anew By the minstrel's soft lays, and his love pure and true.
What was this cold fire that burned him when he thought of her pulling those sinister blue guns on Courtrey? Did he fear to see her kill Courtrey to see that shadowy stain on her hands or did he fear something worse, infinitely worse to see Courtrey, famous gun man, beat her to it! He shuddered and sweat in the clear cold of the starlit night and searched his bewildered heart.
Let no man mock me, for I will kiss her. 'Good my lord, forbear! said Paulina. 'The ruddiness upon her lip is wet; you will stain your own with oily painting. Shall I draw the curtain? 'No, not these twenty years, said Leontes.
One of the pieces of woodwork is yet in my possession, with the stain still on it. Experts have pronounced upon it too, with the result that opinions are divided. Some maintain that the stain was produced by human blood, which had been subjected to a great heat, and, so to speak, parboiled. Others declare that it is the blood of some wild animal, possibly of some creature of the cat species.
Where one great rock has splintered from the main wall is a curious phenomenon noted by all travelers a cow, head and horns, etched in perfect outline against the face of the rock. The driver tells you it is a trick of rain and stain, but a knowledge of the tricks of lightning stamping pictures on objects struck in an atmosphere heavily charged with electricity suggests another explanation.
Toward midday a sea-plane which had been releasing depth-bombs and hovering eagerly above the wide iridescent and spreading stain, sheered shoreward and shot along the coast. There was a dead man afloat in a cave, rocking there rather peacefully in his life-suit or at least they supposed him to be dead.
In that case he must be prepared for her pursuit, her letters, her chicanery, which he could not bear. Her safety and his own, if the stain of blood was to be kept off the name of Endicott, demanded the absolute cessation of all relationship between them. Yet that did not contain the whole reason.
They take for their victim a heretic and a stranger, deeming that that will diminish the abomination in the eyes of the Lord; but it moves Him to loathing all the same, for no human blood may stain the pure and sacred altars of our mild faith, which gives life and not death.
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