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His brief presence and sharp rebuke reanimated the falterers, and in a few minutes they gained the bridge. "Halt, sirs," cried Hastings; "I would offer capitulation to your leader! Who is he?" A knight on horseback advanced from the rest. Hastings lowered the point of his sword.
Had his parents or teachers understood him, he might have been as great a naturalist as Agassiz, and his life instead of being dwarfed and crippled, would have been a joy to himself and an incalculable benefit to the world. "No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty."
But next breath the falterers came again together they held their place, their way, four mighty masses of blood and bone, of breath and fire and stay, fighting it out every inch of the way, with a living sea roaring, shouting, cursing, crying encouragement on either hand. How they lay down to it! How they came up! Stretch and gather! Stretch and gather, the game and gallant foursome held to it.
His brief presence and sharp rebuke reanimated the falterers, and in a few minutes they gained the bridge. "Halt, sirs," cried Hastings; "I would offer capitulation to your leader! Who is he?" A knight on horseback advanced from the rest. Hastings lowered the point of his sword.
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