Excerpt from Rupert, by the Grace of God: The Story of an Unrecorded Plot Set Forth by Will Fortescue
Hast thy christening} shouted the Major,' now down with thee, man, lest thy burial service follow. Every man for himself, and this prize is mine. But, damn me, there may be a score sweet saints in the church yet.' I could have sworn then that I heard a shuddering moan, but in looking round could see naught - no wounded man being nigh me. In truth even such as were hurt joined, up to their strength, in the mad revelry, and none kept that stillness which did befit the lace save only the dead. One of these lay not far om me - face down, with outspread arms. His blood, creeping over the slab beneath him, followed the deep-graven letters and the lines of the funeral escutcheon, marking them red on the gray stone.
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Hast thy christening} shouted the Major,' now down with thee, man, lest thy burial service follow. Every man for himself, and this prize is mine. But, damn me, there may be a score sweet saints in the church yet.' I could have sworn then that I heard a shuddering moan, but in looking round could see naught - no wounded man being nigh me. In truth even such as were hurt joined, up to their strength, in the mad revelry, and none kept that stillness which did befit the lace save only the dead. One of these lay not far om me - face down, with outspread arms. His blood, creeping over the slab beneath him, followed the deep-graven letters and the lines of the funeral escutcheon, marking them red on the gray stone.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Genre: Historical
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