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Updated: September 26, 2024
So swift had been the movements that the remaining two men were paralysed, by the sudden fall of their companions; but before they could turn to fly, the weapons descended again, with as fatal result as before. "To the right!" Oswald exclaimed, and he dashed off into the forest again, at a right angle to the line that they had before taken.
The lieutenant returned with his glasses. "At least ten thousand of them," he announced at last, after gazing down at them for fully a minute. "And nobody knows how many more behind. We must notify the camp at once." He ran back to the tractor, followed by all but Jerry, who remained to observe the enemy's further movements.
Lieutenant D'Hubert found the surgeon occupied in unscrewing his flute and packing the pieces methodically in a velvet-lined case. He turned his head. "Water there in the corner. Your hands do want washing." "I've stopped the bleeding," said Lieutenant D'Hubert. "But you had better make haste. It's rather more than ten minutes ago, you know." The surgeon did not hurry his movements.
Neb, in particular, had all the absence of responsibility that distinguishes the existence of a slave, feeling very much the same unconcern as to the movements of the vessel, as any other human being feels in connection with those of the earth in which he is a passenger. It was ten o'clock when I awoke, refreshed, but disappointed.
And the event justified his judgment. The insurrectionary movements which called him back clearly appear to have been, not so much efforts of the nation to throw off a foreign yoke, as revolts excited by the oppression and bad government of those whom he had left in charge of the kingdom.
They were both tall, and a kind of radiance seemed to envelope them a glory imparted by the sheer force of perfect symmetry and health and, in the case of the former of the two, there was an added charm in a certain little air of stateliness and distinction which characterized her movements.
Siegfried starts from her, not guiltily or to move from his place, only to stand erect and, absorbed, watch her movements. Slowly she rises to a sitting posture and with beatific looks takes account of the glorious world to which she has reawakened. Solemnly she stretches her arms toward the sky: "Hail to thee, sun!"
While he had pictured her as shrinking away from him in a tremor of self-effacement she had watched his movements, made sure of her opportunity, and come straight down to "have it out" with him. He was so struck by the frankness and energy of the proceeding that for a moment he lost sight of the view of his own character implied in it.
Not a person, however, who, passed him, escaped his scrutiny; and even when he appeared to stop carelessly, or for the sake of considering the way he was to take, he cast a hurried glance behind him to satisfy himself that no one was acting the spy on his movements.
It was a difficult operation in the face of an aggressive enemy, but the movements were well timed and admirably carried out. There is always the possibility of a retreat degenerating into a panic, and a panic at that moment would have been a most serious matter.
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