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Updated: June 11, 2025
But tell me, in your own country have you no bowmen to strike terror to the hearts of the green hordesmen as they slay in company with the fierce banths of war?" "We have soldiers," replied Carthoris. "We of the red race are all soldiers, but we have no bowmen to defend us, such as yours. We defend ourselves." "You go out and get killed by your enemies!" cried Jav incredulously.
While those nearest stared at him, their hearts too full of pity to do him the last favor one can ask of another, from the midst of the hordesmen there came a man of singular unfitness for such a scene indeed a delicate woman had not been more out of place for he was small, stooped, withered, very white haired, very pale, and much bearded a black velvet cap on his head, and a gown of the like about his body, unarmed, and in every respect unmartial.
At the edge of the ditch the foremost of them made a despairing effort to resist the pressure rushing them to their fate down they went in mass, in their last service no better than the hordesmen clods they became clods in bright harness instead of bull-hide and shaggy astrakhan.
By friendly chance, also probably because the site was far down toward the sea, in a district not yet reached by the hordesmen the space in front of the vestibule was clear of all but incoming fugitives; and he had but to knock at the door, and give the name of the Princess Irene to gain admission.
With the brightening of day the mound grew in height and width, until at length the Christians sallied out upon it to meet the enemy still pouring on. An hour thus. Suddenly, seized with a comprehension of the futility of their effort, the hordesmen turned, and rushed from the hill and the causeway. The Christians suffered but few casualties; yet they would have gladly rested.
The great, gowned, cowardly monks dropped their crucifixes, and, like the commoner sons of the Church, howled: "The Turks! The Turks!" Finally the doors were battered in, and sure enough there stood the hordesmen, armed and panoplied each according to his tribe or personal preference each a most unlikely delivering angel. This completed the panic.
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