easant woman who fell into their
hands. Fortunately, under cover of the previous night every soul had
escaped from the village, some to sea, and the rest to take shelter among
the sand-dunes; and as the troopers rode up the path from the beach, and
through the green valley, where their horses shied from the bodies of the
men they had slain, there was not an eye to see them go.

Or to mark the man who rode last, the man of the white face--scarred on
the temple--and the burning eyes, who paused on the brow of the hill,
and, before he passed beyond, cursed with quivering lips the foe who had
escaped him. The words were lost, as soon as spoken, in the murmur of
the sea on the causeway; the sea, fit emblem of the Eternal, which rolled
its tide regardless of blessing or cursing, good or ill will, nor spared
one jot of ebb or flow because a puny creature had spoken to the night.

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