The man stood swaying, pinned there by his foot and held erect.

Then he made one desperate lunge, fell forward across the barricade, and hung there.
Wogan parried the lunge; the sword fell from the man's hand and clattered onto the floor within the barricade.

Wogan stamped upon it with his heel and snapped the blade.

He had still two opponents; and as they advanced again he suddenly sprung onto the edge of the table, gave one sweeping cut in a circle with his sword, and darted across the room.
The two men gave ground; Wogan passed between them.

Before they could strike at his back he was facing them again.