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Updated: May 12, 2025
In all my wanderings, and the many wars in which I afterwards fought wars compared to which this affair of Monmouth's was but the merest skirmish I have never seen a stranger or more impressive scene. In the dim, solemn light the pile of bodies in front of the rails, with their twisted limbs and white-set faces, had a most sad and ghost-like aspect.
Then came the captives, some riding horses bare-backed, or held in place before black-bearded riders women mostly these last, with faces white-set and strange of eye, or all beblubbered with weeping. Then came a man or two also on horseback, old and reverend.
She had caught him in the dangerous moment of convalescence in that rebound from inertia which carries men to an excess incredible to their normal conscience. And she was infamous. She had broken one man after another. She could not have overlooked Stonehouse. Apart from his conspicuous clothes, his immobility and white-set face must have inevitably drawn her attention to him.
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