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Section nineteen of Deirdre by James Stevens. This LibriVox recording
is in the public domain. Read by Michel Frye Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
Book two, chapters seventeen and eighteen. Chapter seventeen. We are
(00:23):
yet three, said Nisha. Draw the bold san Lah for
one sortie of friendship. We have no doorman, for Deirdre
could not close or open the door by herself. You
and I a la be quiet Ardan, Come my brother,
and put all your arm into the blade. We will
come in by the door. We go out of this door,
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be ready for our show. Tarden. They went out and
returned with red weapons, and for a long time they
sat in the dim flare of a torch, watching by
their dead comrade. He was a brave boy, said Deirdre.
He did not obey my order. Her husband's sighed, I
do not know what he did. I smell smoke, said Anna. Suddenly.
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I have smelt something for a long time, said Deirdre,
but I could not think what it was. I am
weary because of the death of this good friend. But
little by little the vast building became full of smoke,
and in a while a fierce roar and crackling was heard. Also,
Nisha was again the hearty leader. They have fired the fortress.
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We do not know what happened while Ireland was away,
but Coanahor has reached the end of the world. Who
could have foretold that he would fire the red branch.
We must prepare for all that can happen. We are
not dead yet, said Ardan. What do you counsel, brother,
said anloud Sit down. There is less smoke on the floor.
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A ruddy glare could be seen by each window. Fire
is laid all round the building. We must make our
plans quickly. Amla turned gleefully to his younger brother. You
shall run, after all, my poor friend. In good truth,
Ardan grinned. I thought in Scotland that I should never
want to run again, But I feel now that we
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have been staying too long in the one place. After all,
he said complacently, I am a man of action, and
of course, aunt La jab. No one can run as
quickly as you can. No one, said Ardan, except Deirdre Listen,
said Nisha. We have still more than a chance we
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can run. Scotland trained us in that certainly, and if
we can surprise but forty yards on the men without
we will outrun their best. In twenty minutes. Where shall
we run too, We shall take the road to our
own lordship. If Lavisham's message has been sent, our kinsman
should be marching at this moment on Emain. But he said,
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and pointed, we cannot wait for them. They looked in silence.
A huge golden flame licked screaming through the window, wavered
hither and thither like some blindly savage tongue, and roar
it out again. It was ten feet long and three
feet thick, said Ardan in a whisper. In ten minutes
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we will go, said Nietsche. What arms, shield and spear, brother,
strip off all armor. We must run lightly. I shall
be the first out, he continued. Give me twenty seconds
before you follow, Anla, I can make room. In twenty
seconds you will run ten paces to the left of
the door. Deirdre and Ardan will run immediately into our interval.
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Turn all to the right, and at my shout run
single file an La. At the end. If I shout halt,
you two turn about and protect the rear. When I
shout run, drop every combat and fly you. Deirdre take
Ireland's shield and his spear, said Deirdre, keep Ashley at
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my back, beloved, And each time we halt dropped flat
to the ground. He was shouting his instructions. Now, for
the voice of the fire was like the steady rage
and roar of the sea. And through every window monstrous
sheets of flame were leaping and crashing. This door, said Misha,
a kiss for every one, he called. We shall win.
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Yet pull an la. The door is red hot, said Almah.
Back for a mantle, two now, grip pull, give me
twenty seconds an la. He leaped across fire and disappeared.
The others leaped after him. With a wild yell from Ardan.
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Kanahur sent a flying messenger to the palace. Bring Kafa
back with you, he ordered, Tell him I want him.
Say that the king beseeches him to come. The captain
of his troops stood by Alas for the red branch,
he said, mournfully. All that can be destroyed can be rebuilt,
said Kanehor, I shall rebuild the red branch. He was
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in a terrible distress and agitation. The morn is nigh,
he said, and he strode unhappily to and fro with
his eyes on the ground and his mind warring. Far
to the east, a livid gleam appeared. The darkness of
a summer night, which is yet a twilight, was shorn
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of its soft beauty, And in the air there moved
imperceptibly and voluminously a spectral apparition of dawn. A harsh, gray,
iron bound upper world brooded on a chill and wrinkled earth.
The king's eyes and the eyes of his captain scanned
each other from colorless, bleak faces. There was no hue
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in their garments. Their shields were dull as death, and
their hands, each clutching a weapon, seemed like the knotted
claws of goblins. A slow, sad exultation came from the
King's gray lips, like the plaint of some grim merman
of the sea, rising away and alone amid the chop
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and shudder of his dismal water. The fire is catching,
the captain murmured, hark to that crackly, we shall have light.
The king murmured. The red branch will flame within, said
the captain moodily, and he looked with stern mournfulness on
the vast pile. They must soon come out. He muttered,
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your men are posted, every door is held. When they
pop out this time, they will have no place to
pop into, said kanhor I have them, he growled, and
he threw his hand in the air and gripped it
as though in that blanched fist he held all that
could never escape from him. They will fight, said the captain,
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And they are woeful fighters. You're a nervous man, said Kanahor.
At this hour and after this night, said the captain.
Our men could fly from those three like scared rabbits.
I fear that, said Kanahor. They may get away, said
the captain. Kanahor advanced on him so savagely and with
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such a writhe of feature that the man fell back.
Dog said Conahor. If they escape, I shall take your head.
They are surrounded, the captain, stamping. They cannot escape. They
can escape, kana you know they can escape. Your men
are cowards and idiots. And what are you? Oh? Am
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I not a thwarted man? Am I not a forsaken king?
Where is Kafa? Where is the druid? He cried? Majesty.
The captain implored, do not curse us. The great magician
is coming. The magician indeed had come, what has set
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you raging? Kanahur? Father said Kanahur. If you do not
assist me, I am lost. The old old man looked
at him. Tell me your tales, son, whom have you
locked up in fire? The sons of Eshnak are there,
said Kanihur. They will escape me, he said. They are
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my grandchildren, said Kaufa. And the woman is with them.
It is dear Dore I want. She was mine. She
was stolen from me. I am not myself without her.
I am a dead man. While she is with Nishe
What do you fear from boy? He roared round by flame.
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They may escape with her when they come out. My
men may run from them if they escape this time, Father,
I am dead. If I help you, Conahor, I shall
do anything you ask. Nothing you can demand will be
too much for Conahor. It is the woman you want,
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the woman only. It is not the blood of these boys.
You lust for the woman. Father, only the woman. I
shall help you, Kanahor, do not lay one finger on
my daughter's sons, the sons of your young sister. They're out,
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the captain said. As the great roar came from the soldiers.
Conahora moved in that direction, quick quick, he said, twitching
his father's mantle in his impatience. They will escape me.
They shall not escape me. Kafa answered, there is no
need for haste. They were out, indeed, and like two
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grim lions or woeful griffins of the air. Nishe and
Anlah were raging in that press. Into their interval leaped Ardan,
with but one eye peeping from the shield and a
deadly hand thrusting from the rim. Back and forth they
leaped with resistless savagery. Men flew at them and from them.
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Everywhere was a wild yelling of orders and the wilder
screaming of stricken men. But over all, Niece's voice came
pealing up. Deirdre run. She was at his back in
an instant, the shield covering her side, her spear darting
viciously by his right elbow, and a venturesome man dropped
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squealing five feet behind. Ardan was leaping like a cat,
all eyes and points, and ten paces behind him On
was bounding halt roared Nishe. Deirdre was again on the ground.
Ardan ranged tigressly to right and left, while an La
whirled on the pursuers in ten foot Boundskanahor had arrived
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with Kafa. Men were falling before them at a rate
of three a second. So dreadful was Niche's onslaught in
the front that none would face him. Men tumbled over
each other when he charged. The men will run away
in a second, said the captain. Get in the me lead, coward,
roared Kanahor. Kafa, he implored. The officer whizzed out his
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blade and leaped forward. In three seconds, he was dead,
and five who followed him were rolling in their agony
along the ground. Nisha's voice came in a wild shout. Up, Deirdre, Run.
The four were again in line. The men in front
melted to either side of that dreadful pile. Run, said Nishe,
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we are out in front of him. There was but
Conahor and Kafakanahor drew his great sword and stood crouching
and at him with a dreadful smile. Nisha came on.
Kafa moved two paces in the front and stared fixedly
at Nishe. He extended his two arms wildly. Nisha dropped
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on one knee, rose again, leaped high in the air,
and dropped again on his knee. Deirdre fell to the
ground and rose up gasping. Ardan rolled over on his back,
tossed his shield away, and came slowly up again, beating
the air with his hands. Anolad went half way down,
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rose again, and continued his advance on tiptoe. A look
of dismay and rage came on Nisha's face. He moved
with extraordinary slowness to Deirdre and lifted her to his should.
We are lost, he said, that magician, keep on swimming.
Art On giggled. There was never water here before, but
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the whole sea has risen around our legs, and we
may paddle to Ishnak. The arms dropped from their hands,
and in fact they swam. Not for a minute or
two did the soldiers dare advance, and they did so cautiously.
They picked up the fallen weapons, and then only did
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they lay hands on the raging champions. Kafa dropped his
arms to his sides. We are taken, said Nisha. Our
run is ended Chapter eighteen. Kafa had gone away, and
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Kanahorse strode to his prisoners. So Nisha, he said, So Uncle,
said Nisha. I. When in the end, always, when at
last he looked at each with a stern smile, And
when he spoke again, it was to Deirdre, little fawn,
you have run wild for a long time. You shall
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rest at last. But she made only the reply that
a fawn makes, the reply of parted lips and terror
stricken eyes. You shall come to me, he said. Then
she moistened her trembling lips and looked at Nishe. Do
not look at him, said Coanihor. He is already a
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dead man. Let him be forgotten. All tricks and troubles
are ended for you, sweet bird. You shall have peace.
Will you have peace tomorrow? Connahor said Nishe. Fergus is
marching on you. Be at ease, nephew, and the king
smiled grimly. I shall take care of Fergus when he comes.
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For long I have wanted to take care of Fergus.
But first I shall take care of you, Nishe, and
of your traitor brothers. Your hour is on you, he said,
And you die now. Charl and rogue, said anlou, But
the gesture from his brother stopped him. Let this king
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do his business, he said. That must be done, said Connahor.
He turned briskly and moved away. Now the day was
at hand, and these four looked on a world that
was spectral and misshapen, but which was yet the world.
On high the clouds could be seen, a gray immensity,
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stony as the face of Cnihor, and a chill wind
moaned thinly about them. But far away, the gray misery
of morn had lightened, and a silver gleam, slender as
a rod, crept up the east to that gleam. Their
eyes turned and from it to each other's faces, and
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the guards who wringed them. They did not look, or
they looked unseeingly. But those gaunt apparitions stared like statues
on the floor, and did not move a lip. The
sun will rise in a little said Ardan. That magician
has gone. He whispered. If we leaped at the guards,
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No good, brother, they are too many and we have
no arms. We should have one merry minute, said Ardan.
We have had a merry knight, said an. Lah. Nisha
looked lovingly on his brothers. We were always together, he said,
We shall always be together. And I said deirdre am
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I to be left out at last, sweet girl, said Nisha.
He will kill us, but you will be spared. You
shall see the sun come up you shall look at
it for us. Dear husband, do you still love me?
Do you truly love me? His eyes gave her answer.
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Here comes Connaheur, said Anlah, and a large person with him,
said Ardan. It was Maine rough hand, son of the
King of the Fair Norwegians, they say, but others think
it was Owen, son of d'er tact, the Prince of
FERNI you shall die at the hand of a gentleman,
as befits your rank, said Ganaheur. I shall be the first,
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said Ardan, briskly. I am first in every great deed,
he exclaimed to Gannahur. Hark to him on the left,
respect your elder's young person and the heads of your family.
But Ardon appealed to Maine. Let me be first, sweet sir,
he pleaded. He turned confidently to Connahur. I cannot bear
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to see my brothers killed, he said. The Odren knelt
by the bodies, and she sang there keen, beginning, I
send a blessing eastward to Scotland. When she had finished
the poem, she bowed over her husband's body. She sipped
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of his blood, and she died there upon. His body
so far the fate of the sons of Ishnach and
the opening of the Great Thine. This ends Deirdre by
James Stephens, first published in nineteen twenty three. Thank you
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for listening, and I hope you've enjoyed it.
Section nineteen of Deirdre by James Stevens. This LibriVox recording
is in the public domain. Read by Michel Frye Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
Book two, chapters seventeen and eighteen. Chapter seventeen. We are
(00:23):
yet three, said Nisha. Draw the bold san Lah for
one sortie of friendship. We have no doorman, for Deirdre
could not close or open the door by herself. You
and I a la be quiet Ardan, Come my brother,
and put all your arm into the blade. We will
come in by the door. We go out of this door,
(00:46):
be ready for our show. Tarden. They went out and
returned with red weapons, and for a long time they
sat in the dim flare of a torch, watching by
their dead comrade. He was a brave boy, said Deirdre.
He did not obey my order. Her husband's sighed, I
do not know what he did. I smell smoke, said Anna. Suddenly.
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I have smelt something for a long time, said Deirdre,
but I could not think what it was. I am
weary because of the death of this good friend. But
little by little the vast building became full of smoke,
and in a while a fierce roar and crackling was heard. Also,
Nisha was again the hearty leader. They have fired the fortress.
(01:37):
We do not know what happened while Ireland was away,
but Coanahor has reached the end of the world. Who
could have foretold that he would fire the red branch.
We must prepare for all that can happen. We are
not dead yet, said Ardan. What do you counsel, brother,
said anloud Sit down. There is less smoke on the floor.
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A ruddy glare could be seen by each window. Fire
is laid all round the building. We must make our
plans quickly. Amla turned gleefully to his younger brother. You
shall run, after all, my poor friend. In good truth,
Ardan grinned. I thought in Scotland that I should never
want to run again, But I feel now that we
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have been staying too long in the one place. After all,
he said complacently, I am a man of action, and
of course, aunt La jab. No one can run as
quickly as you can. No one, said Ardan, except Deirdre Listen,
said Nisha. We have still more than a chance we
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can run. Scotland trained us in that certainly, and if
we can surprise but forty yards on the men without
we will outrun their best. In twenty minutes. Where shall
we run too, We shall take the road to our
own lordship. If Lavisham's message has been sent, our kinsman
should be marching at this moment on Emain. But he said,
(03:05):
and pointed, we cannot wait for them. They looked in silence.
A huge golden flame licked screaming through the window, wavered
hither and thither like some blindly savage tongue, and roar
it out again. It was ten feet long and three
feet thick, said Ardan in a whisper. In ten minutes
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we will go, said Nietsche. What arms, shield and spear, brother,
strip off all armor. We must run lightly. I shall
be the first out, he continued. Give me twenty seconds
before you follow, Anla, I can make room. In twenty
seconds you will run ten paces to the left of
the door. Deirdre and Ardan will run immediately into our interval.
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Turn all to the right, and at my shout run
single file an La. At the end. If I shout halt,
you two turn about and protect the rear. When I
shout run, drop every combat and fly you. Deirdre take
Ireland's shield and his spear, said Deirdre, keep Ashley at
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my back, beloved, And each time we halt dropped flat
to the ground. He was shouting his instructions. Now, for
the voice of the fire was like the steady rage
and roar of the sea. And through every window monstrous
sheets of flame were leaping and crashing. This door, said Misha,
a kiss for every one, he called. We shall win.
(04:34):
Yet pull an la. The door is red hot, said Almah.
Back for a mantle, two now, grip pull, give me
twenty seconds an la. He leaped across fire and disappeared.
The others leaped after him. With a wild yell from Ardan.
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Kanahur sent a flying messenger to the palace. Bring Kafa
back with you, he ordered, Tell him I want him.
Say that the king beseeches him to come. The captain
of his troops stood by Alas for the red branch,
he said, mournfully. All that can be destroyed can be rebuilt,
said Kanehor, I shall rebuild the red branch. He was
(05:18):
in a terrible distress and agitation. The morn is nigh,
he said, and he strode unhappily to and fro with
his eyes on the ground and his mind warring. Far
to the east, a livid gleam appeared. The darkness of
a summer night, which is yet a twilight, was shorn
(05:38):
of its soft beauty, And in the air there moved
imperceptibly and voluminously a spectral apparition of dawn. A harsh, gray,
iron bound upper world brooded on a chill and wrinkled earth.
The king's eyes and the eyes of his captain scanned
each other from colorless, bleak faces. There was no hue
(06:02):
in their garments. Their shields were dull as death, and
their hands, each clutching a weapon, seemed like the knotted
claws of goblins. A slow, sad exultation came from the
King's gray lips, like the plaint of some grim merman
of the sea, rising away and alone amid the chop
(06:23):
and shudder of his dismal water. The fire is catching,
the captain murmured, hark to that crackly, we shall have light.
The king murmured. The red branch will flame within, said
the captain moodily, and he looked with stern mournfulness on
the vast pile. They must soon come out. He muttered,
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your men are posted, every door is held. When they
pop out this time, they will have no place to
pop into, said kanhor I have them, he growled, and
he threw his hand in the air and gripped it
as though in that blanched fist he held all that
could never escape from him. They will fight, said the captain,
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And they are woeful fighters. You're a nervous man, said Kanahor.
At this hour and after this night, said the captain.
Our men could fly from those three like scared rabbits.
I fear that, said Kanahor. They may get away, said
the captain. Kanahor advanced on him so savagely and with
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such a writhe of feature that the man fell back.
Dog said Conahor. If they escape, I shall take your head.
They are surrounded, the captain, stamping. They cannot escape. They
can escape, kana you know they can escape. Your men
are cowards and idiots. And what are you? Oh? Am
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I not a thwarted man? Am I not a forsaken king?
Where is Kafa? Where is the druid? He cried? Majesty.
The captain implored, do not curse us. The great magician
is coming. The magician indeed had come, what has set
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you raging? Kanahur? Father said Kanahur. If you do not
assist me, I am lost. The old old man looked
at him. Tell me your tales, son, whom have you
locked up in fire? The sons of Eshnak are there,
said Kanihur. They will escape me, he said. They are
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my grandchildren, said Kaufa. And the woman is with them.
It is dear Dore I want. She was mine. She
was stolen from me. I am not myself without her.
I am a dead man. While she is with Nishe
What do you fear from boy? He roared round by flame.
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They may escape with her when they come out. My
men may run from them if they escape this time, Father,
I am dead. If I help you, Conahor, I shall
do anything you ask. Nothing you can demand will be
too much for Conahor. It is the woman you want,
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the woman only. It is not the blood of these boys.
You lust for the woman. Father, only the woman. I
shall help you, Kanahor, do not lay one finger on
my daughter's sons, the sons of your young sister. They're out,
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the captain said. As the great roar came from the soldiers.
Conahora moved in that direction, quick quick, he said, twitching
his father's mantle in his impatience. They will escape me.
They shall not escape me. Kafa answered, there is no
need for haste. They were out, indeed, and like two
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grim lions or woeful griffins of the air. Nishe and
Anlah were raging in that press. Into their interval leaped Ardan,
with but one eye peeping from the shield and a
deadly hand thrusting from the rim. Back and forth they
leaped with resistless savagery. Men flew at them and from them.
(10:31):
Everywhere was a wild yelling of orders and the wilder
screaming of stricken men. But over all, Niece's voice came
pealing up. Deirdre run. She was at his back in
an instant, the shield covering her side, her spear darting
viciously by his right elbow, and a venturesome man dropped
(10:51):
squealing five feet behind. Ardan was leaping like a cat,
all eyes and points, and ten paces behind him On
was bounding halt roared Nishe. Deirdre was again on the ground.
Ardan ranged tigressly to right and left, while an La
whirled on the pursuers in ten foot Boundskanahor had arrived
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with Kafa. Men were falling before them at a rate
of three a second. So dreadful was Niche's onslaught in
the front that none would face him. Men tumbled over
each other when he charged. The men will run away
in a second, said the captain. Get in the me lead, coward,
roared Kanahor. Kafa, he implored. The officer whizzed out his
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blade and leaped forward. In three seconds, he was dead,
and five who followed him were rolling in their agony
along the ground. Nisha's voice came in a wild shout. Up, Deirdre, Run.
The four were again in line. The men in front
melted to either side of that dreadful pile. Run, said Nishe,
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we are out in front of him. There was but
Conahor and Kafakanahor drew his great sword and stood crouching
and at him with a dreadful smile. Nisha came on.
Kafa moved two paces in the front and stared fixedly
at Nishe. He extended his two arms wildly. Nisha dropped
(12:26):
on one knee, rose again, leaped high in the air,
and dropped again on his knee. Deirdre fell to the
ground and rose up gasping. Ardan rolled over on his back,
tossed his shield away, and came slowly up again, beating
the air with his hands. Anolad went half way down,
(12:47):
rose again, and continued his advance on tiptoe. A look
of dismay and rage came on Nisha's face. He moved
with extraordinary slowness to Deirdre and lifted her to his should.
We are lost, he said, that magician, keep on swimming.
Art On giggled. There was never water here before, but
(13:10):
the whole sea has risen around our legs, and we
may paddle to Ishnak. The arms dropped from their hands,
and in fact they swam. Not for a minute or
two did the soldiers dare advance, and they did so cautiously.
They picked up the fallen weapons, and then only did
(13:30):
they lay hands on the raging champions. Kafa dropped his
arms to his sides. We are taken, said Nisha. Our
run is ended Chapter eighteen. Kafa had gone away, and
(13:50):
Kanahorse strode to his prisoners. So Nisha, he said, So Uncle,
said Nisha. I. When in the end, always, when at
last he looked at each with a stern smile, And
when he spoke again, it was to Deirdre, little fawn,
you have run wild for a long time. You shall
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rest at last. But she made only the reply that
a fawn makes, the reply of parted lips and terror
stricken eyes. You shall come to me, he said. Then
she moistened her trembling lips and looked at Nishe. Do
not look at him, said Coanihor. He is already a
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dead man. Let him be forgotten. All tricks and troubles
are ended for you, sweet bird. You shall have peace.
Will you have peace tomorrow? Connahor said Nishe. Fergus is
marching on you. Be at ease, nephew, and the king
smiled grimly. I shall take care of Fergus when he comes.
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For long I have wanted to take care of Fergus.
But first I shall take care of you, Nishe, and
of your traitor brothers. Your hour is on you, he said,
And you die now. Charl and rogue, said anlou, But
the gesture from his brother stopped him. Let this king
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do his business, he said. That must be done, said Connahor.
He turned briskly and moved away. Now the day was
at hand, and these four looked on a world that
was spectral and misshapen, but which was yet the world.
On high the clouds could be seen, a gray immensity,
(15:36):
stony as the face of Cnihor, and a chill wind
moaned thinly about them. But far away, the gray misery
of morn had lightened, and a silver gleam, slender as
a rod, crept up the east to that gleam. Their
eyes turned and from it to each other's faces, and
(15:58):
the guards who wringed them. They did not look, or
they looked unseeingly. But those gaunt apparitions stared like statues
on the floor, and did not move a lip. The
sun will rise in a little said Ardan. That magician
has gone. He whispered. If we leaped at the guards,
(16:19):
No good, brother, they are too many and we have
no arms. We should have one merry minute, said Ardan.
We have had a merry knight, said an. Lah. Nisha
looked lovingly on his brothers. We were always together, he said,
We shall always be together. And I said deirdre am
(16:42):
I to be left out at last, sweet girl, said Nisha.
He will kill us, but you will be spared. You
shall see the sun come up you shall look at
it for us. Dear husband, do you still love me?
Do you truly love me? His eyes gave her answer.
(17:05):
Here comes Connaheur, said Anlah, and a large person with him,
said Ardan. It was Maine rough hand, son of the
King of the Fair Norwegians, they say, but others think
it was Owen, son of d'er tact, the Prince of
FERNI you shall die at the hand of a gentleman,
as befits your rank, said Ganaheur. I shall be the first,
(17:29):
said Ardan, briskly. I am first in every great deed,
he exclaimed to Gannahur. Hark to him on the left,
respect your elder's young person and the heads of your family.
But Ardon appealed to Maine. Let me be first, sweet sir,
he pleaded. He turned confidently to Connahur. I cannot bear
(17:52):
to see my brothers killed, he said. The Odren knelt
by the bodies, and she sang there keen, beginning, I
send a blessing eastward to Scotland. When she had finished
the poem, she bowed over her husband's body. She sipped
(18:14):
of his blood, and she died there upon. His body
so far the fate of the sons of Ishnach and
the opening of the Great Thine. This ends Deirdre by
James Stephens, first published in nineteen twenty three. Thank you
(18:38):
for listening, and I hope you've enjoyed it.
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