" This placard was adorned
with a rude wood-cut, representing the unhappy malefactor at the place of
execution. Not for
me. I have it about me. The lines about his mouth gradually
softened. "
"Zounds!" exclaimed Wood; "it's my old master-key. “There’s endless reasons, no doubt, why we shouldn’t,” he said. Also from the capital came news of
grave fears for the safety of the royal family, who had moved there from
Versailles. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been
said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the
faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility,
conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every
blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked
by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made;
—how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him
suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making
it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only
delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe.
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