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Updated: June 28, 2025
Every morning, shortly after sunrise, men might be heard crying their wares throughout the camp such as, "Tobacco, tobacco; two packets going for either beads or simbis!" "Milk to sell for beads or salt!" "Salt to exchange for lance-heads!" "Coffee, coffee, going cheap for red beads!"
"Yes, as that of the foolhardy leader of an armed troup." "He is a hero perhaps the Redeemer." "And it was for him that you charged me to load my next corn vessel to Joppa with swords, shields and lance-heads?" "And are none but the Romans to be permitted to use iron?"
Before them spread the whole host of the Barbarian as far as the eye could reach,—a tossing sea of golden shields, scarlet surcoats, silver lance-heads,—awaiting with its human billows to engulf them. The Laconians halted just beyond bow shot. The line locked tighter. Instinctively every man pressed closer to his comrade.
"Yes, as that of the foolhardy leader of an armed troup." "He is a hero perhaps the Redeemer." "And it was for him that you charged me to load my next corn vessel to Joppa with swords, shields and lance-heads?" "And are none but the Romans to be permitted to use iron?"
It is true, I gave a little ground at first, for a motley jacket does not brook lance-heads, as a steel doublet will. But if I fought not at sword's point, you will grant me that I sounded the onset." "And to good purpose, honest Wamba," replied the King. "Thy good service shall not be forgotten." "'Confiteor!
"Yes, as that of the foolhardy leader of an armed troup." "He is a hero perhaps the Redeemer." "And it was for him that you charged me to load my next corn vessel to Joppa with swords, shields and lance-heads?" "And are none but the Romans to be permitted to use iron?"
Here Mark Antony's soldiers were stationed, and the sunbeams reflected from the helmets, coats of mail, and lance-heads of the infantry, and the armour of the horsemen quivered with dazzling brilliancy in the hot air of the first day of an Egyptian August.
Yes, I remember how five years ago I held his hand as we came together out of the cathedral of that great, far-off city, whose name I forget now; and then I remember the stamping of the horses' feet; I remember how his hand left mine at last, and then, some one looking back at me earnestly as they all rode on together looking back, with his hand on the saddle behind him, while the trumpets sang in long solemn peals as they all rode on together, with the glimmer of arms and the fluttering of banners, and the clinking of the rings of the mail, that sounded like the falling of many drops of water into the deep, still waters of some pool that the rocks nearly meet over; and the gleam and flash of the swords, and the glimmer of the lance-heads and the flutter of the rippled banners that streamed out from them, swept past me, and were gone, and they seemed like a pageant in a dream, whose meaning we know not; and those sounds too, the trumpets, and the clink of the mail, and the thunder of the horse-hoofs, they seemed dream-like too and it was all like a dream that he should leave me, for we had said that we should always be together; but he went away, and now he is come back again.
I had been so far west of Derby that I had seen the famous spires of Lichfield cutting into the sky like three lance-heads, and had learned on abundant and trustworthy evidence that the Duke's forces there were leaving for the south, under orders to march with all speed to their original camp at Merriden Heath.
The entrance to the Chalet is by a little trellised iron door, the uprights of which, ending in lance-heads, show for a few inches above the fence and its hedge. Dumay consoled himself for the toils of business in taking care of this hot-house, whose exotic treasures were one of Modeste's joys.
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