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Updated: June 2, 2025
Wounded, parched, and powder-blackened, they were still filled with the mad courage of desperate men who knew that death could come in no more terrible form than through surrender. The stone staircase ran straight up from the kitchen to the main hall, and the door, which had been barricaded across the lower part by two mattresses, commanded the whole flight.
And I remember still the grim laughter that greeted us from those unshaven, powder-blackened ranks, and how they laughed, too, as they fired by platoons at the far glimmer of Simcoe's helmets through the chestnut trees.
As Bigley squeezed my hand and started off, my father exclaimed: "Now I must have a messenger to go to Ripplemouth for Doctor Chowne. What man is not wounded?" There was a murmur among the group assembled about the fire, a grim blood-smeared powder-blackened set of beings, several of whom had had their hair scorched away by the explosion.
Where the great gathering had spread from side to side of the parade, there was the long, halting line of panting and powder-blackened men, who, in spite of their breathlessness, had followed up their British cheer with a tremendous petillating roar of laughter, which ran along the line from end to end and back again a roar of laughter so loud that hardly a man knew that the band was now playing in full force "God save the Queen," with an additional obbligato from the drums that one known as the "big" threatening collapse from the vigorous action of the stick-wielder's sturdy arms.
She was thinking how tenderly he had kissed her powder-blackened hands and bruised shoulder, his heart throbbing with love and wonder and pride of her. She was very gracious to Douglass that night at dinner, leading him on with skill to talk of himself, and drawing him out to a degree that would have astonished him had he realized it.
In two or three places there are smudges where the powder-blackened finger and thumb held the sheets momentarily. I would give much to own it, but Tejada will not give it up without Bass's permission, and Bass has gone to the Klondike. As to Karslake himself.
"What! dead? killed so soon?" cried the boy, turning white, and then flushing red, and unconsciously clenching his fists as he spoke. "Yes, Mister," said a war-bronzed soldier standing by, who looked doubly grim from the blood trickling down his powder-blackened cheek from a scalp wound received during the morning skirmish.
She saw more stretcher bearers in the smoke, stooping, edging their way unarmed heroes of many a field who fell unnoted, died unrecorded on the rolls of glory. A lieutenant of artillery, powder-blackened, but jaunty, called down to her from the bank above: "Look out, little lady. We're going to try to limber up, and we don't want to drop six horses and a perfectly good gun on top of you!"
My father wandered over to the camp, and there, God alone knows why, enlisted I shall not tell you in what regiment. But it was Continental Line a gaunt, fierce, powder-blackened company, disciplined with iron. And presently a dreadful thing befell us.
"And this note explains it?" "Yes. You can read it to-morrow." And the morrow has come. Down in a deep and bluff-shadowed valley, hung all around with picturesque crags and pine-crested heights, under a cloudless September sun whose warmth is tempered by the mountain-breeze, a thousand rough-looking, bronzed and bearded and powder-blackened men are resting after battle.
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