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Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword and kill me with it, so that these heathen Philistines may not come and make sport of me." But his armor-bearer would not, for he was very much afraid. Saul, therefore, took his own sword and fell upon it. When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him.
Zbyszko gave orders to the people he led, who easily understood him because there were a few Poles among them. Then he turned to his armor-bearer and said: "You have seen enough, now it is time to return to the tent." "I have seen," replied Hlawa, "but I am not satisfied with what I have observed, for it is obvious that they are a defeated people."
Accordingly he removed him from the station he was in before, for he was his armor-bearer, which, out of fear, seemed to him much too near a station for him; and so he made him captain over a thousand, and bestowed on him a post better indeed in itself, but, as he thought, more for his own security; for he had a mind to send him against the enemy, and into battles, as hoping he would be slain in such dangerous conflicts.
Zbyszko looked at him with satisfaction. "Well, he will not fare well who happens to feel your steel. God has given you great strength, but you would act badly if you were to push it to excess, because humility is becoming in the worthy armor-bearer." The Bohemian shook his head as a sign that he would not waste his strength, but would not spare it against the Germans.
Think of having Deacon Miller try to sing, 'Only an armor-bearer! I don't mind telling you that I felt very much as if I were being lifted right off my feet and carried up somewhere, I hardly know where, when I heard him sing that. I was coming down the hill, away off, you know, by the post-office no, away above the post-office, and he suddenly burst forth.
And when the armor-bearer had readily promised to follow him whithersoever he should lead him, though he should be obliged to die in the attempt, Jonathan made use of the young man's assistance, and descended from the hill, and went to their enemies.
He was that already in the fight with the Fryzjans ... when he was a mere stripling...." Here he glanced sharply once and again at the Bohemian, then he continued: "And so you tried to imitate him, and it seems you tell the truth. I doubted your words, but, as you yourself say, you had little work with the armor-bearer.
Macko exclaimed, his eyes sparkling with intense curiosity. "What followed?" "He cut the German in two, and God also made me happy by delivering the armor-bearer into my hands." Macko again began to puff, but this time with an air of satisfaction. "Well!" he said. "He is a fellow not to be trifled with. He is the last of the Gradys, but so help me God, not the least.
And with Pyrrhus were tall Periphas, and Automedon, who had been armor-bearer to his father Achilles, and following them the youth of Scyros, which was the kingdom of his grandfather Lycomedes.
"Not dead poor Firm, your only one not dead?" as soon as words would come, I asked, and trembled for the opening of his lips. "Not dead not quite; but ten times worse. He hath flown into the face of the Lord, like Saul and his armor-bearer; he hath fallen on his own sword; and the worst of it is that the darned thing won't come out again." "Firm the last person in the world to do it!
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