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Once he turned his bright face back over his shoulder to call gayly to the Jotun: "Brother, you were right in despising craft. When the battle-madness fills a man, he becomes a god!" On, till the bowmen's faces were plain before them; then suddenly it began to hail, "the hail of the string." Arrows! One hissed by the girl's ear, and one bit her cloak, to hang there quivering with impotent fury.
She buried her face in the leaves, but the visions pressed faster before her. The son of Leofwine and the drunken feast the girl outside the tent the Jotun within it her terrible young guardian the battle-madness whichever way she looked, a new spectre confronted her. Helpless in their grip, she tossed to and fro in agony to and fro.
So much we saw as we broke cover and ran in upon the despoiler. Then the battle-madness came upon us and I, for one, saw naught but the tense-drawn face of a swordsman fighting for his life a face in which the hot flush of evil passion had given place to the ashen graying of fear.
Thundering hoof-beats, crashing blows, shrieks and groans and falling bodies, a sense of being caught in a wolf pack took possession of the girl; and the feeling grew with every sidelong glance she had of the savage sweating dust-grimed faces, in their jungles of blood-clotted hair. The battle-madness was upon them, and they were no longer men, but beasts of prey.
This first flush of victory encouraged the negroes under his command so far that what had been their enthusiasm became a positive battle-madness.
Battle-madness, thirst for vengeance, ferocity, brutality, greed, and every hateful passion were satiated without scruple, in the name of their holy cause.
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