Oh, there was nothing amazing about it at the time to Guillaume de Sainte- Maure, but amazing it is to me, Darrell Standing, as I recollect and ponder it across the centuries.

It is easy, most easy, to kill a strong, live, breathing man with so crude a weapon as a piece of steel.

Why, men are like soft-shell crabs, so tender, frail, and vulnerable are they.
But to return to the moonlight on the grass.

My thrust made home, there was a perceptible pause.

Not at once did Fortini fall.