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Updated: June 3, 2025
To see the opening, to estimate it, and to take my resolve was all the work of a fraction of a second. The next instant I had straightened my elbow, my blade shot out in a lightning stroke and transfixed his sword-arm.
And I am the more moved to ask an answer for the settlement of my mind, because as I have ever understood, the Scots more than our people are accustomed to go into the reason of things, and to argue about principles. It is not always that the strong sword-arm goes with a clear head, and I am waiting to hear what two gallant Scots soldiers will say."
The next instant a tall young officer, leaning heavily on a cane and with his sword-arm in a sling, appears at the sergeant's side. "Who is the man who questions your authority?" he asks, in a voice singularly calm and deliberate. There is a moment's awkward silence. The sergeant has the reluctance of his class to getting a fellow-soldier into a scrape.
"Huguet's sword-arm was useless; he could not defend himself." "Or else he fainted from his wound, he bled so," M. Étienne answered. "And one of those who fled last came upon him helpless and did this." "Why didn't I follow him instead of sitting down, a John o'dreams?" I cried. "But I was thinking of you and Monsieur; I forgot Huguet." "I forgot him, too," Monsieur sorrowed.
Yet the brave clowns sent up cheer after cheer, and shouted words of encouragement and homely jests to each other, as though a battle were but some rough game which must as a matter of course be played out while there was a player left to join in it. 'Is Captain Clarke there? cried Decimus Saxon, riding up with his sword-arm flecked with blood.
And thus it happened that poor Dickey found himself in the midst of a blood-thirsty crowd, each one pounding him on the chest or back, while he was unable to parry the attack, save when some one incautiously moved towards his sword-arm. He cried for mercy at the full force of his lungs, while Mrs. Green shouted the same request because of her tin-ware.
You had gone out to battle." "Yes, it was a bloody day. The angel of death hovered over us, and the swords of the enemy swept heavily upon our ranks. A sabre-stroke dealt by Bashi Seref fell upon the sword-arm of my noble friend, striking him down and disabling him. The Turk was preparing to deal a second blow, when I struck him to the earth with my ataghan.
My escort having been overpowered between Vittoria and Tolosa, I declined the rescue offered me, but not before your letter to the Governor had been broken open and its contents read, in my presence. This letter also I saw restored to its bearer, who during its perusal lay unconscious, of a severe and painful wound in his sword-arm.
"It's my sword-arm too, and I'll just bet that the doctor won't let me go on another scout for a month." With Bob's aid the Indian was dragged into camp, and thrown down there as if he had been a sack of corn. George had been devoting himself to the boys, who did not seem to be at all afraid, and were by no means so excited as he was.
These questions and the apparently trustworthy replies elicited by them being duly taken down, the uninvited visitors retired, having discovered nothing to justify their visit. All might have been well had there been nothing the matter but the wound on the chevalier's sword-arm.
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