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Her slow distracted gaze traveled from Glaud Burge to Jean le Prince, from Renot Babinet to François Bastarack, from Ambroise Tibedeaux along the line of stanch faces to Edelwald. His calm uplifted countenance with the horrible platform of death growing behind it looked, as it did when he happily met the sea wind or went singing through trackless wilderness.
Glaud Burge handed them, down at the end of a ramrod. "But see yonder," he said to François Bastarack his companion, as they stood and watched the messengers tramp away. He pointed to Klussman below the fort poor Klussman whom the pearly vapors of morning could not conceal. "I could have done that myself in first heat, but I like not treating with a man who did it coolly."
Her garrison felt her degradation as she must feel their death. The grizzled lip of Glaud Burge moved first to comfort her. "My lady, though our hands be tied, we make our military salute to you," he said. "Fret not, my lady," said Renot Babinet. "Edelwald can turn all these mishaps into a song, my lady," declared Jean le Prince. Marie had that sensation of lost identity which has confused us all.
John, said I. The water kept rising and he kept stretching his neck above it, and crying and shouting, and I took his humor and cried and shouted with him, naming the glorious waves as they rode in from the sea: "'Glaud Burge! "'Jean le Prince! "'Renot Babinet! "'Ambroise Tibedeaux!
Edelwald, our only officer, is against surrender, because he, like yourselves, would give the greater for the less, which I cannot allow." "My lady," spoke Glaud Burge, a sturdy grizzled man, rising to speak for the first squad, "we have been talking of this matter together, and we think Edelwald is right.
"You men-at-arms," Glaud Burge exhorted the guards drawn up, on each side of him and his fellow-prisoners, "will you hang us up like dogs? If we must die we claim the death of soldiers. You have your pieces in your hands; shoot us. Do us such grace as we would do you in like extremity."
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