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During the remainder of that day Gadarn could do little else than chuckle or laugh. Bladud's comment was that it had been "most successful." "A bloodless victory!" remarked Beniah. "And didn't they yell?" said Arkal. "And splutter?" added Maikar.
He did let himself go once, and explained in definite terms that they were incapable of understanding a man's needs, a man's desires, a man's point of view. He called them neuters, epicenes, bloodless, sexless creatures. He said they could of course kill him as so many insects could but that he despised them nonetheless.
"My God my God!" she said with bloodless lips, her eyes fastened on his face, her every look and motion the inflection of despair. "Go on tell all," she added presently with more composure.
During the whole summer, the designs of the enemy were baffled by his skilful dispositions: he pressed their retreat, occupied each night their camp of the preceding day, and would have secured a bloodless victory, if he could have resisted the impatience of his own troops.
As soon as we arrived at the scene of action, a sickle was placed in the hands of Madame Von Egmond; and she was requested to cut and bind the first sheaf of wheat ever harvested in the Huron tract an honour of which any person might be justly proud. What were the red battle-fields of Napoleon, in comparison to this bloodless victory, won over the forests of the Huron!
Impassive faces, yet with a suspended not an abolished expression on them; faces, rather, in a fearful pause, as having yet to raise the dropped lids of the eyes, and bear witness with the bloodless lips, "THOU DIDST IT!"
Then, suddenly, the colonel stopped, and rapidly approached a man in the ranks. "'I'll teach you to hit him gently, I heard his furious voice say. 'Will you pat him like that? Will you? and I saw how his strong hand in the suede glove struck the weak, bloodless, terrified soldier for not bringing down his stick with sufficient strength on the red neck of the Tartar.
He had not thought of that Lettice for months, for three years; not since before she had died; not, he corrected himself drearily, since he had killed her. He had remembered the last phase, of the glazed and bloodless travesty of her youth. But even that lately had been lost in the fog of nothingness settling down upon him.
The bottle now went round once more. Shrieking with laughter at their sweeping, bloodless victory, the six Papists saw the procession rearrayed. Kenna had recovered and wiped his face with one coat sleeve, his Bible with the other. The six dispensers of purity could not resist it; they must charge again. Hartigan wheeled the horses to make the turn at a run.
She was rather above the middle height, slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying.
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