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Deadly courtesies were constantly exchanged sorties by the English in the night; rushes by the enemy in the night rushes whose purpose was to breach the walls or scale them; rushes which cost heavily, and always failed. The ladies got used to all the horrors of war the shrieks of mutilated men, the sight of blood and death. Lady Inglis makes this mention in her diary: "Mrs.
Aubrey's mind became almost broken under so many repeated horrors; he was afraid that this lady had fallen a victim to the destroyer of Ianthe. He became morose and silent; and his only occupation consisted in urging the speed of the postilions, as if he were going to save the life of some one he held dear.
Subsequently, after the mischief had been done, it was proved that the boy was murdered by his uncle and the care-taker of the orchard in which the body was found both of them Russians and Gentiles. The murderers confessed their guilt, the motive for the crime being gain. The horrors of 1891 were repeated and even excelled at Kishinev in 1903 as a result of this propaganda.
We must stoop to be told that it is all, in all its terrors and in all its horrors, literally true of ourselves.
So the poor girl, betrayed and deserted, the door of home closed against her, the faces of friends averted, no hand that will help, no eye that will soften with pity, the future an abyss filled with monstrous shapes of dread and fear, her mind racked by fragments of thoughts like clouds broken by storm, pursued, surrounded by the serpents of remorse, flying from horrors too great to bear, rushes with joy through the welcome door of death.
He would sooner have looked for mercy in a hyena. For Ignacio was of the race of the Inquisition; and of the horrors of the Inquisition this was a fair sample. The wretched American knew that he was alone and that he could look for no rescue. He was buried in the very centre of the earth or the centre of hades. And his cries would be heard only by Ignacio.
But I was glad when Mornas, vivid with such bitter memories, dropped out of sight astern. Sleeping dogs of so evil a sort very well may lie; though it is difficult not to waken a few of them when they lie so thickly as here in the Rhône Valley, where almost every town and castle has a chapter of nightmare horrors all its own.
That it is contagious there is no question; but by the blessed discovery of vaccination, this disease, once so dreadful, is robbed of its horrors, and rendered as harmless as the measles or the whooping cough, insomuch that laws, formerly enacted in different states to protect the people from the dangers of the small pox have generally been repealed.
"Of these, the 'suasoriæ, as being the lighter and requiring less of experience, are given to the little boys, the 'controversiæ' to the bigger lads. But oh heavens, what they are what miserable compositions!" Then he tells us the subjects selected. Rape, incest, and other horrors are subjected to the lads for their declamation, in order that they may learn to be orators.
On the 19th of July, Oudewater, entirely unprepared for such an event, was besieged by Hierges, but the garrison and the population, although weak, were brave. The town resisted eighteen days, and on the 7th of August was carried by assault, after which the usual horrors were fully practised, after which the garrison was put to the sword, and the townspeople fared little better.
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