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In our ranks, here was a man with an arm in a bloody handkerchief, there one with his head so bound, and yonder a young fellow jesting wildly while he let his garments be cut and a flesh-wound in his side be rudely stanched. Here there was laughter at one who had been saved by his belt-buckle, and here at one who had dropped like dead from his horse, but had caught another horse and charged on.
For I have this stark wound, and mine arm is thoroughly pierced with sharp pains, nor can my blood be stanched, and by the wound is my shoulder burdened, and I cannot hold my spear firm, nor go and fight against the enemy. And the best of men has perished, Sarpedon, the son of Zeus, and he succours not even his own child.
But neither might fight more: Gunthers leg, Walthars hand, and Hagens eye lay on the ground. They sat down on the heath and stanched with flowers the flowing stream of their blood. They called to them Hildegund, who bound up their wounds and brought them wine. Wounded as they were, they cracked many a joke over their cups, as heroes should.
It was a perpetual cloud, dispersed, indeed, for a time by the events of the day, but returning at night, when not only was the combat acted over again, but when she fell asleep it was only to be pursued by Peregrine through endless vaulted dens of darkness, or, what was far worse, to be trying to hide a stream of blood that could never be stanched.
"Can you do nothing for him? Oh, save him, sir! only save him! have pity upon me!" She could say no more. The surgeon bent over and examined the wound. When he had done so, he shook his head. "His wound is mortal, I am afraid," he said, "but I will do all I can for him." And with a rapid hand he stanched the blood, and bandaged the wound. The boy had not stirred.
Ernest heard the cry, "They run they run." Then he sunk, exhausted from loss of blood. At length the blood was stanched, a cordial was poured down his throat, and looking up, he saw the countenance of his old friend Edward Ellis bending anxiously over him. Ellis bore him to his tent, and nursed him with the care of a brother.
I ought not to have let her watch! But I never thought they would dare shoot!" Colina went on in a schooled voice more affecting than an outcry. "Nesis was shot through the breast. I had nothing to give her. I stanched the wound the best way I could. "I saw at once that she could not live. Indeed, I prayed that she would not linger in such pain. She lived throughout the night.
It was found, indeed, that she had escaped, almost miraculously, with a contusion of the head, a sprained ankle, and some slight bruises. After her wound was stanched, she was taken to a neighbouring cottage until a carriage could be summoned to convey her home; and when this had arrived, the cavalcade, which had issued forth so gaily on this enterprise, returned slowly and pensively to the Hall.
He ended by falling back on the "Imitation," in which Mysticism, placed within the reach of the crowd, was like a trembling and plaintive friend who stanched your wounds within the cells of its chapters, prayed and wept with you, and in any case compassionated the desolate widowhood of souls.
He saw an old man suffering and dying, and he stooped and felt of his wounds and stanched the flow of blood. "Who are you?" asked the old man in a trembling voice. "I am Tarzan Tarzan of the Apes," replied the ape-man and not without a greater touch of pride than he would have said, "I am John Clayton, Lord Greystoke." The witch-doctor shook convulsively and closed his eyes.
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