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Updated: May 4, 2025
So, while bayonet-points and swords were pushed into crevices, while smoke was sent down passages and tunnels and great, loose-limbed, slobbering hounds were led on the leash and cast to find a trail, the three women and the child lay still beneath the piled-up powder, and doled out water, and biscuit in siege-time measures.
As yet no gate was in the possession of the people. The walls showed bayonet-points: a thin edge of steel encircled a pit of fire. Angelo resolved to break through at once. The peasants hesitated, but his own men were of one mind to follow, and, planting his ladder in the ditch, he rushed up foremost.
The room is locked; we have only to exterminate the reptiles inside it. Romara, D'Arci, Carnischi march to hold the doors. Corte will push lower; and if I can get him to enter the plains and join the main army I shall rejoice." The letter concluded with a postscript that half an Italian regiment, with white coats swinging on their bayonet-points, had just come in.
They danced around the square, within a few feet of the glistening row of bayonet-points, which were lowered so as to form an impenetrable fence. The officers were of course inside the square.
It gleamed down the length of the Corso in a blinding sunlight; brass helmets and hussar feathers, white and violet surcoats, green plumes, maroon capes, bright steel scabbards, bayonet-points, as gallant a show as some portentously-magnified summer field, flowing with the wind, might be; and over all the banner of Austria the black double-headed eagle ramping on a yellow ground.
War tramples gallantry in the dust, leaves women at the mercy of a brutal soldiery, slaughters old men, and tosses babes on bayonet-points. All this it does, and a great deal more, in the way of mischief; what does it accomplish in the way of good?
As yet no gate was in the possession of the people. The walls showed bayonet-points: a thin edge of steel encircled a pit of fire. Angelo resolved to break through at once. The peasants hesitated, but his own men were of one mind to follow, and, planting his ladder in the ditch, he rushed up foremost.
Just then the covering of their hiding-place was thrown off, and several bayonet-points appeared. "Come out, one at a time, quietly, else we will shoot you where you stand!" exclaimed a stern voice. The Secretary translated this. At the same time Ravonino clambered out of the rice-hole, and was instantly seized and bound.
It gleamed down the length of the Corso in a blinding sunlight; brass helmets and hussar feathers, white and violet surcoats, green plumes, maroon capes, bright steel scabbards, bayonet-points, as gallant a show as some portentously-magnified summer field, flowing with the wind, might be; and over all the banner of Austria the black double-headed eagle ramping on a yellow ground.
The room is locked; we have only to exterminate the reptiles inside it. Romara, D'Arci, Carnischi march to hold the doors. Corte will push lower; and if I can get him to enter the plains and join the main army I shall rejoice." The letter concluded with a postscript that half an Italian regiment, with white coats swinging on their bayonet-points, had just come in.
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