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Where Frobisher had made his final stand the dead lay thickest, and he noticed with grim satisfaction that there were very few wounded men to be seen. His men and he had fought well, and he had nothing with which to reproach himself.
"But what'll he do if you pull a gun yourself?" asked Joe Pollard, showing a sudden concern. "He'll stand for it long enough," said Terry. "Try him!" There was a devil in Slim that morning. He snatched up a shining bit of quartz and hurled it straight at El Sangre! There was no warning just a jerk of the arm and the stone came flashing. "Try your gun on that!" The words were torn off short.
After the long interval of years, was he to feel again the powerful fever, and for a woman how different from the woman he had loved? She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow did she really stand at the other? He seemed to see these two looking at each other across the space that was set by Time, and for a moment his face contracted.
There were about 5,000 stand of arms on board, and three pieces of artillery, which would fire three-pound shot or shell. With these pieces the salute was fired on the occasion of hoisting the sunburst on Easter Sunday. As regards ammunition, there were about a million-and-a-half rounds on board."
There was the gentle murmur that always prevails where many people stand at attention. The weeping of the woman was scarcely audible but it persisted like the sound of little waves on a beach at the end of the day.
It was this yearning that attracted Hodder, who found in it a deep pathos. After one of these intervals of silence, Eldon Parr looked up from his claret. "I congratulate you, Hodder, on the stand you took in regard to Constable's daughter," he said. "I didn't suppose it was known," answered the rector, in surprise. "Constable told me.
Evermore we stand in danger from Kriemhild. I smote her husband dead with my hand. How dare we ride into Etzel's land?" But the king answered, "My sister forgot her anger. With a loving kiss she forgave us for all we had done to her or she rode away. Hath she aught against any, it is against thee alone, Hagen." "Be not deceived," said Hagen, "by the words of the Hunnish envoys.
"I saw him!" she repeated, "I saw Henry Morton stand at that window, and look into the apartment at the moment I was on the point of abjuring him for ever.
I asked who wanted to get this religion, who wanted me to pray for them, and about seventy-five hands went up. A number of men came forward and took a stand for Jesus. It was early in the morning when the meeting closed. It was cold and snowing outside.
"John," and Saunderson looked up, "I would give ten thousand worlds to stand in the shoes of that good man who conveyed me from Kilbogie yesterday, and with whom I had very pleasant fellowship concerning the patience of the saints.
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