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I called him to me, and we listened to his report with growing perturbation. "Thirty warriors!" I said, when he had finished. "And they are painted yellow as well as black, and have dashed their cheeks with puccoon: it's l'outrance, then! And the war dance is toward! If we are to pacify this hornets' nest, it's high time we set about it.
Dost thou not know the motto of the Staffords: À l'outrance? Therefore will I dare to the utmost." "Well said, mistress. If my courage fail me thou wilt inspire it anew. So fare you well until night." They parted, and Francis returned to her chamber to await the coming of the darkness with what patience she could. The hours went by on leaden wings.
"Yes, you could, perhaps, if any of you had ever read it," replied Miss Ossulton, carelessly. "Upon my word, Cissy, you are throwing the gauntlet down to the gentlemen," observed Lord B ; "but I shall throw my warder down, and not permit this combat a l'outrance. I perceive you drink no more wine, gentlemen, we will take our coffee on deck."
I should have made him my pupil, had it not been for his obstinate character. But he has here charged me 'a l'outrance, and must take the consequences. I am sorry for him. I have left them to float about in open water for the last two years. I shall now draw the net." "It is time, Monseigneur," said Joseph, who often trembled involuntarily as he spoke.
Two courses were run with mere splintering of lance; at the third, while Rene held his staff ready to throw if signs of fighting a l'outrance appeared, Ferry lifted his lance a little, and when both steeds recoiled from the clash, the azure eagle of the Tyrol was impaled on the point of his lance, and Sigismund, though not losing his saddle, was bending low on it, half stunned by the force of the blow.
It was altogether a friendly and chivalrous contest, you understand, nothing bitter or malicious about it, but none the less it was a duel a l'outrance, a struggle for the mastery between two men whom nature had made rivals, and for whom circumstances had prepared the arena in the double sphere of love and angling.
As he pushed on through the wood, the Abbot began to see signs of a fight; riderless horses crashing through the copse, wounded men straggling back, to be cut down without mercy by the English. The war had been "a l'outrance" for a long while. None gave or asked quarter. The knights might be kept for ransom: they had money.
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