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The three remaining savages in bewilderment sprang to their feet. McConnel instantly seizing the two other guns, shot one through the heart, and inflicted a terrible wound upon the other. He fell to the ground bellowing loudly. Soon however he regained his feet and hobbled off into the woods as fast as possible.
'15th'. The panting is diminished, the appetite is returning, and water continues to ooze from the wound, '17th'. The wound healed on the night of the 15th, and already the fluid begins to collect. The medicine still continued. '20th'. The spirits good, and strength improving; but the belly is evidently filling, and matter is discharged from both the nose and eyes.
The wound was an ordinary gunshot wound, produced most probably by the ball of a navy revolver, fired at the distance of ten paces.
Munce about him one morning, without a word to him," was how she eased her mind and wound up her reverie. But daylight, and the most prosaic hours of the twenty-four, made the plan look absurd. Once alive though to his condition, she felt deeply sorry for him in his patent inability ever to be content. It was a thousand pities.
He had thought the matter all over, and decided, no doubt, that he was doing what was best both for himself and the girl; that his family's high ideas should not be outraged by a Mexican marriage. He had put a piece of flesh-colored court-plaster over his wound, not healed it.
Perhaps, you will not allow that special circumstances make any difference?" On the contrary, Mr. Mool made every allowance. At the same time, he waited to hear what the circumstances might be. But Mrs. Galilee had her reasons for keeping silence. It was impossible to mention Benjulia's reception of her without inflicting a wound on her self-esteem.
Ghamba said that about two hours' walk would now bring them to Umhlonhlo's cave, so they started off briskly at dusk. Their course now led for some distance along a mountain ledge covered with wild bamboo, through which the pathway wound. Then they crossed a sleep saddle between two enormous peaks, after which they plunged into another deep and winding gorge.
His companion watched his changing countenance, and sought with generous art to wile him to his own good. "Perhaps I deceive myself in regard to the time I have to live," he resumed. "It may be that, with speedy assistance, I might recover of my wound.
Auersperg would use the charge that she was a spy to hold her, and he was a powerful man. The pressure upon her would grow heavier and heavier all the time. Could she resist it? He might make her think that the fate of a spy would be hers, unless she chose to marry him. In all the world, since Philip would lie long in the hospital with a wound, there was but one man who could help her.
Once I came suddenly upon an eland while I had a Winchester rifle in my hand the eland and myself mutually astonished at not more than twenty-five yards apart. I fired at its chest, and bullet, true to its aim, sped far into the internal parts, and the blood spouted from the wound: in a few minutes he was far away, and I was too much disappointed to follow him.
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