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Pye was communicative, and he soon learned all she knew that Lucy was the daughter of a soldier belonging to a company commanded by Sir Edward Houstoun during the war that this soldier had received his death-wound in defending his commander from a sword-cut, and that Sir Edward had always considered his widow and only child as his especial charge.
Many of the men were well armed, not only with first-rate weapons, but with complete suits of excellent mail of the kinds peculiar to the period such as shirts of leather, with steel rings sewed thickly over them, and others covered with steel scales while of the poorer bonders and the thralls some wore portions of defensive armour, and some trusted to the thick hides of the wolf, which were more serviceable against a sword-cut than many people might suppose.
He was an odd-looking small man, with hair cut short and standing straight up all over his head, like a Parisian waiter. He had quick, sharp eyes, very much like a ferret's; his nose was depressed, his lips thin and bloodless. A scar marked his left cheek made by a sword-cut, he said, when engaged one day in arresting a desperate French smuggler, disguised as an officer of Chasseurs d'Afrique.
As he spoke his eyes crossed quickly to the tall warrior who was entering the room. Where before had he seen that giant figure, that taciturn countenance, and the livid sword-cut from temple to mouth? "Vas Kor," repeated Carthoris mentally. "Vas Kor!" Where had he seen the man before?
At Fort Wagner, 1863, he had a sword-cut, severing the spinal muscles and overlying tissue for a distance of six inches.
"Ah!" said Brett, "Monsieur Henri Dubois has a ready wit." "What!" cried Edith, who naturally enough was following each word with the utmost interest, "do you already know his name?" "Not only his name," replied Brett, "but his identity, Miss Talbot. You shall see him in another skin and without the sword-cut.
Nor if he had wished it, and they had given him leave to go, could he have left them at that time, seeing that the slightest of his hurts proved to be the worst, since the spear or sword-cut having penetrated to the joint and let out the oil, the wound in his knee would heal only by very slow degrees, and for many weeks left him so lame that he could not walk without a crutch.
I have enough French blood in my veins to think it a very natural way of settling such a quarrel " "Was he hurt?" she asked, without waiting for him to finish. "Very slightly. A sword-cut on the shoulder. The seconds interposed, or we should have gone on " "I have no doubt you wanted to kill him! I shall denounce you to the police!"
Has a scar that was made by a sword-cut, and a white spot on the side of his neck that looks like a bullet-mark. I think he has been what folks call a 'hard customer." Dudley Venner owned that he had heard little or nothing of him of late years. He had invited himself, and of course it would not be decent not to receive him as a relative.
It was one colonel Gordon had given her father in remembrance of a little adventure they had together, in which a lash from it in the dark night was mistaken for a sword-cut, and did them no small service. By the time they reached the castle, the moon was above the horizon.
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