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There would be no pity for Ursula de Vesc. "Damnation," cried La Mothe almost in a sob, and, forgetting that he, too, wore a sword, he would have sprung upon him barehanded in his despair had not Hugues forced him to keep his place. "Not yet," he whispered. "Wait; perhaps later " and the moment of possibility had passed. The troop was upon them. But their leader held them back.
"You cur!" she cried, with the fury of one beating barehanded at a barred door. "You had no right to do such a thing even if I were guilty." "Right? Aren't you my wife?" The look she gave him was heavy with loathing. "That means nothing with us. I never loved you, and you know it. You know, too, why I married you. I made no secret of it at the time.
"If you didn't have that gun, I'd " the big man began, then stopped, for, as he spoke, Patches placed the weapon carefully on a rock and went toward him barehanded. "You would do what?" At the crisp, eager question that came in such sharp contrast to Patches' former speech, Nick hesitated and drew back a step.
Not since that time in the tower, months ago, when he had repaired the big steamengine and actually made it run, had he enjoyed so real a sense of mastery over the world as now; had he sensed so definite a connection with the mechanical powers of the world that was, the world that still should be. No longer now was he fighting the forces of nature, all barehanded and alone.
As he did so, he caught a fleeting, comforting glimpse of Grim rising to his full height on the other slope, huge hands raised, and crashing down barehanded, silent, into the ranks of the enemy. A cheer went up, a faint ragged cheer, and other figures popped up out of nowhere and dropped feet first into the fray. Hilary found himself engulfed in a welter of figures that towered heads above him.
I often admired their patience when I stood watching them; I have seen them more than once working barehanded by the hour together in a temperature of about -22°F. This may pass for a short time; but through the coldest and darkest part of the winter, working day after day, as they did, it is pretty severe, and a great trial of patience.
"'Now, says he, 'you've got a gun, and I've got a gun, and I'm going to kill you if I can. "No use arguing. He goes for his gun. I didn't want to kill a man who'd saved my life. I tried to stop him with bullets. I shot him through the right arm and made him drop his gun. Then he charged me barehanded!" There was a gasp from Manners. "Barehanded," repeated Pete. "That's the stuff that's in him!
Bareheaded, but for a filmy veil, soon thoroughly drenched through; barehanded and almost barefooted, for my thin silk slippers and stockings formed not, after my first few steps, the slightest impediment to wet or cold, I felt that I must perish by the wayside. The sleety storm drove sharply in my face, rendered doubly sensitive to its rigor by long absence from outward air.
It seemed that the noise of the conflict, the snapping of dry dead wood, the swish and crash of leafy brush, must draw attention from the camp, but it was too engrossed in its own mad hilarity to heed so small a sound. Over and over strained the strangely-met foes in silence, and presently they struggled up, barehanded, face to face, for Maren had dropped her rifle when she fell.
Even as she stood there barehanded she looked about her desperately for a weapon, seeing the daylight and the promise of escape beyond and only this dumb beast between her and freedom. Once before, many a year before, she had gone like this, with empty hands, and subdued Black Bart simply through the power of quiet courage and the human eye. She determined to try again.
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