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Updated: May 6, 2025
Their real work was yet to begin, but already their casualties had been numerous. The Inniskillings alone had lost thirty-eight killed and wounded. Not a word had been spoken among the little group on the hill, for the last ten minutes; they stood with tightly-pressed lips, breath coming hard, and pale faces looking at the scene.
The man talked in a pleasant, civil way, in a tone as if he quite supposed Reginald might be pleased to hear the programme arranged on his behalf. "We'd better go," said Reginald, moving towards the door. His face was very white and determined. But there was a tell-tale quiver in his tightly-pressed lips which told that he needed all his courage to help him through the ordeal before him.
The air was still. It was late autumn, and all around her the russet leaves of beech and chestnut fell with a melancholy hush-sh-sh about her feet. She was alone, and from time to time heavy tears gathered in her eyes and rolled slowly down her cheeks. Suddenly a sigh escaped the man's tightly-pressed lips. With a strange gesture, wholly unusual to him, he passed his hand right across his eyes.
It was all chin, and thin, tightly-pressed lips, and solid, straight nose, bronze and unyielding. "And I am going to kill you!" This was surely the devil of Ignacio's imagery speaking in him a cold, passionless, gray-eyed devil. Though they had never seen him shoot, everybody felt now that he could shoot with deadly accuracy and that there was no play cowboy in his present mood.
"My children!" cried she, trembling; "no, no, only as a mother only under the protection of their innocent presence will I ever see him; only for my children will I receive his sympathy and grace." Pollnitz stamped involuntarily with his feet upon the floor, and muttered curses from between his tightly-pressed lips.
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