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- “Since we are born, we will live!” so we read on a crimson banner,
flouting the crimson clouds, in the van of a riotous red-bonneted mob,
racing by us as we came from the glen. Many more followed: black, or
blood-stained:—.
“Mardi is man’s!”
“Down with landholders!”
“Our turn now!”
“Up rights! Down wrongs!”
“Bread! Bread!”
“Take the tide, ere it turns!”
Waving their banners, and flourishing aloft clubs, hammers, and
sickles, with fierce yells the crowd ran on toward the palace of Bello.
Foremost, and inciting the rest by mad outcries and gestures, were six
masks; “This way! This way!” they cried,—“by the wood; by the dark
wood!” Whereupon all darted into the groves; when of a sudden, the
masks leaped forward, clearing a long covered trench, into which fell
many of those they led. But on raced the masks; and gaining Bello’s
palace, and raising the alarm, there sallied from thence a woodland of
spears, which charged upon the disordered ranks in the grove. A crash
as of icicles against icebergs round Zembla, and down went the hammers
and sickles. The host fled, hotly pursued. Meanwhile brave heralds from
Bello advanced, and with chaplets crowned the six masks.—“Welcome,
heroes! worthy and valiant!” they cried. “Thus our lord Bello rewards
all those, who to do him a service, for hire betray their kith and
their kin.”
Still pursuing our quest, wide we wandered through all the sun and
shade of Dominora; but nowhere was Yillah found.
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