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Updated: May 15, 2025
The valet met me at the ante-chamber, and stared at me with mouth and eyes wide open; but no wonder. I must have cut a handsome figure, with, that torn and perforated red képi on my head, and the dirty, blood-smeared cotton handkerchief around my forehead. My face was blackened by exposure to the sun and wind, and had a grizzly beard of three months' growth upon it.
In the dining-room at Lupton House she came upon Diana and Lady Horton at supper, and her appearance her white and distraught face and blood-smeared gown brought both women to their feet in alarmed inquiry, no less than it brought Jasper, the butler, to her side with ready solicitude.
You, who prolong this hideous hell on earth, Making a by-word of your native land, Stripped of your wealth, how paltry is your worth! See how men shrink from contact with your hand! There is pollution in your blood-smeared gold, There is corruption in your pact with Death, There is dishonor in the lie, oft-told, Of your "Humanity"! 'Tis empty breath.
They had a very successful season, but even at the first it struck me as odd to see two men, not outwardly debased, so soberly intent on their game of killing. And in the end I got sick of the big blood-rusted traps and the stretching-rings and the blood-smeared cutting-boards and the smell of pelts being cured. For every pelt, I began to see, meant pain and death.
A few pencilled words covered the smooth side of the strip, and we absorbed them in a single glance. "'We're prisoners now, muttered Holman, reading the few words in a whisper. 'The brute has declared himself. Barbara." The boy turned to me, his face all blood-smeared and haggard, and for a moment we stared at the strip of bark.
Imagine it, if you please! Imagine leaving a line of battle, where shells were shrieking overhead and musketry was crackling along the trenches, and moaning, blood-smeared figures were being placed in ambulances, and other blood-smeared figures who no longer moaned were sprawled in strange attitudes upon the ground imagine leaving such a scene, I say, and in an hour, or even less, finding oneself in a hotel where men and women in evening dress were dining by the light of pink-shaded candles, or in the marble- paved palm court were sipping coffee and liqueurs to the sound of water splashing gently in a fountain.
A sickening fear overcame her, and she shrank, shuddering, from the touch of the blood-smeared hands. A look of terror came into her face; she covered her eyes with her hands as if to shut out the horror of it all, and, turning, fled blindly she knew not where. As she ran there still sounded in her ears the words of the high, thin chant the blighting curse of Yaga Tah.
He was mounted upon the sorrel, and Pat wondered at this. But as the man drew near and Pat saw a blood-smeared, ghastly face, he wondered still more. For there was something familiar about this lone rider, and he took a step toward him. Presently he saw him gain the outer edge of the circle, and then a strange thing happened.
It seems to me you have merely to will a thing, in order to accomplish it." "If that were true, do you suppose I would allow her to remain one hour in this accursed cage of blood-smeared criminals?" Down the dim corridor he walked slowly, as if in no haste to finish his errand, stepped into the designated cell, and closed the door behind him.
The plash of oars from the Marquis's boat was waxing indistinct despite the stillness, whilst by the eye the boat itself was no longer to be distinguished. As I turned, my glance fell upon the bravo whom I had shot. He lay stiff and stark upon his back, his sightless eyes wide open and staring heavenwards, his face all blood-smeared and ghastly to behold. Mademoiselle shuddered.
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