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So saying he turned from the bloodstained village and continued his way. Malcolm had brought with him from Tilly's camp a supply of provisions sufficient for three or four days, and a flask of wine.
In another moment the terrified child sank exhausted on the snow beside the insensible form of Frank Morton. The shock which Edith received on beholding the bloodstained countenance of her companion completely paralysed her at first, but only for a few minutes.
In England the black reaction which had identified all proposals for reform with treasonable sympathy for bloodstained France was giving way, and the middle classes were about to triumph in the great franchise reform of 1832. In the United States, after a generation of conservatism, Jacksonian democracy was to sweep all before it.
He had been turned out at daybreak with the rest of the division at the first alarm, and had had no time to attend to his toilette, such as it was in these rough campaigning days. Since then he had been in his saddle for several hours and constantly in the heat and turmoil of the fight. His clothes were torn, mud-encrusted, and bloodstained; his face was black and grimy with gunpowder smoke.
If I, like Abraham, through flames must go, Or yet like John a bloodstained road must run; If, Joseph-like, Thou’d cast me in a well, Or shut me up within a prison cell— Or make me e’en as poor as Mary’s Son— I will not go from Thee, But ever stand My soul and body bowed to Thy command.
The scene of the preceding night ran in his recollection; and, remembering the bloodstained figure of Bonthron, he conceived, though indistinctly, that the ruffian's action had been connected with this uproar.
It was like ivory, new ivory; except where the right arm, with shattered, bloodstained wrist and missing hand had lain bare to exposure in the sarcophagus for so many tens of centuries. With a womanly impulse; with a mouth that drooped with pity, with eyes that flashed with anger, and cheeks that flamed, Margaret threw over the body the beautiful robe which lay across her arm.
The instant the burgher guard entered the hall, Hugh and Joe threw down their bloodstained swords, and knelt beside Rupert. "Ough!" sighed the latter, in a long breath. "Thank God! He is not dead." "Dead!" Rupert gasped, "not a bit of it; only almost trodden to death.
Tartarin did not quite know himself, "Them" was everything that attacked, that bit, that clawed. "Them" was the Indian brave dancing round the stake to which his wretched prisoner was tied. It was the grizzly bear, shuffling and swaying, licking bloodstained lips. The Toureg of the desert, the Malay pirate, the Corsican bandit. In a word it was "Them!"
The highest and humblest seemed to find themselves upon the same level within those sacred precincts, where even the bloodstained criminal was secure, and the arm of secular justice was paralyzed. But the work of degeneration had commenced. The atmosphere of the cathedral was no longer holy in the eyes of increasing multitudes.
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