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Francis Vere was twice wounded, but not disabled. Sir Roger Williams urged him to retire, but he replied that he would rather be killed ten times in a breach than once in a house. Day by day the terrible struggle continued. The Spaniards were able constantly to bring up fresh troops, but the defenders had no relief.
He had three heads, one red, one green and one white and yellow; and in his three mouths he munched the three greatest traitors of all time Judas Iscariot, Brutus and Cassius. When Dante was about to swoon from the terrible sight, Vergil watched his opportunity, and as the great wings of Satan rose he sprang beneath them, with Dante following him.
The ears of the inhabitants were dulled to fear by warnings many times repeated forty-two years ago the dam broke vivid stories of witnesses of the great tragedy the owners of the lake must bear a gigantic burden of remorse sufferings of survivors! These were the terrible headings in a single issue of a newspaper.
The next instant he was on his feet and from the swollen veins that stood out like cords upon his neck and forehead, we could see the terrible effort he was making to speak. At last the words came, came as if they were torn hissing from his throat, for he took a full breath between each one of them. "Gwen I knew it! Good-bye!
He went on to assert, as a fact supported by ample evidence, that the devil at such meetings assumed a corporeal form sometimes that of a man, sometimes that of a beautiful and seductive woman, the results being frequent births, in the prosaic world around us, of terrible hybrid creatures half diabolic in nature, though wholly human in form.
It had taken up so much of their recent thought that they had forgotten everything else. Now a terrible and gnawing hunger came upon them and they knew that if they would live and travel and they must travel they would have to have food at once. Over there at the end of the lake where the cooking fires had now died out there were men lying down to sleep with full stomachs.
"None of you sitting at this board to-day can look upon the old man who now asks your attention, without realizing what he himself has already learned: namely, that his day is over. Now, life is hard to quit. When a man grows old, the terrors of the unknown land loom just as large and terrible as they did to his youthful imagination, larger perhaps.
"How convincing all that sounds!" answered the physician, "all, even the terrible, wins charm from your lips; but I could invert your proposition, and declare that it is evil that rules the world, and sometimes gives us one drop of sweet content, in order that we may more keenly feel the bitterness of life. You see harmony and goodness in everything.
But if he was masterful and high-stepping, as he knew so well how to be, I had decided to refuse him scornfully with a toss of my head and a laugh. I could break his heart with the sort of laugh I had practised before my mirror. It is a terrible thing to have a long-anticipated event finally overtake you. It is the most terrible thing of all to have to settle once and forever with man.
"No," said the cardinal, "but the clemency of his Majesty's predecessors." Louis XIII. and Cardinal Richelieu have assuredly not merited that, reproach in history. So many and such terrible examples were at last to win the all-powerful minister some years of repose. Once only, in 1636, a new plot on the part of Monsieur and the Count of Soissons threatened not only his power, but his life.
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