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The latter, a rough-garbed, big-bearded Texan, full six feet in height, shouldering a gun whose butt, when rested on the ground, places the muzzle within an inch of his chin. No need to say who are the two he is guarding. At his feet Uraga lies, crestfallen, with a craven look upon his face, like a fox in the trap; his splendid habiliments torn, mud-bedaubed, bedraggled.
It stopped firing after a minute, and Rawbon, flattened back against a corner of the trench wall, heard an explanation given by a gasping private to Courtenay and another mud-bedaubed officer who appeared mysteriously from somewhere. "Flung a shower o' bombs an' rushed us, sir," said the private.
With their splendid uniforms torn, mud-bedaubed, and stained with spots of blood, they present a sorry spectacle. They resemble wounded wolves, taken in a trap; nevertheless, bearing their misfortune in a far different manner. Roblez looks the large, grey wolf savage, reckless, unyielding; Uraga, the coyote cowed, crestfallen, shivering; in fear of what may follow.
"Nancy! Nancy Nelson! Whatever have you been doing to yourself?" Nancy had already heard the motor get under way. She knew that the boy and his friends were now out of hearing, or reach. "Aren't these lilies pretty?" she asked, holding out the flowers as a peace-offering to Miss Trigg. "What?" screamed the teacher, getting up nimbly, and backing away from the mud-bedaubed figure of the girl.
It would be quite as well if I returned to the village after night the more prudent course, in fact as then my mud-bedaubed and blood-stained habiliments would be less likely to attract attention; and this I desired to avoid. I was contented, therefore, to follow the runaway to his "lair," and share it with him till after sunset. For some hundred yards he led on in silence.
His dress, or rather the absence of it, his greasy and mud-bedaubed skin, his long unkempt hair, and the wild animal-like expression of his features all attest his relapse into a condition of savagery, total and complete. Not a vestige of civilised man remains with him to show that he has ever been a mile from the Murray Narrow. But stay, I am wronging him twice wronging him.
As J.W. turned to the church yard lane leading up to the old horseshed, he noticed that there were only two cars there besides his own and one old-time sidebar buggy, battered and mud-bedaubed, with a decrepit and dejected-looking gray mare between the shafts. It was time for meeting, and he contrasted to-day's emptiness of the long sheds with the crowding vehicles of his childhood memories.
By the time he laid hold of it, however, the saurian was no longer on dry ground. His newly-opened eyes opened, perhaps, for the first time for months caught sight of the water close by, and crawling forward a step or two, he launched his ugly, mud-bedaubed carcass into the welcome element. The next moment he had dived, and was out of sight.
Swartboy was next hauled out, and the two mud-bedaubed individuals stood gazing at one another, each highly delighted at the rueful appearance presented by his rival. Slowly the fire of anger, that seemed to have all the while been burning in the Kaffir's eyes, became extinguished, and broad smile broke like the light of day over his stoical countenance.
By the time he laid hold of it, however, the saurian, was no longer on dry ground. His newly-opened eyes opened, perhaps, for the first time for months caught sight of the water close by, and crawling forward a step or two, he launched his ugly, mud-bedaubed carcass into the welcome element. The next moment he had dived, and was out of sight.
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