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"Stand back there!" he cried, "and let your sister go. For shame to hold her."
All his quiet, fastidious nature recoiled in disgust from their stupid cruelty, their bumpkin violence, and at the same time an indignant pity for their victim filled his heart.
That pity was his last earthly emotion. His heart had scarcely begun to beat faster with it than his head was torn from his body by a great, flying shard of iron. The basiliske, while being rammed with the charge, had burst and flown asunder with a roar like an earthquake. Another great splinter tore the head off a tree and sent it whirling with all its branches among the onlookers. The noise seemed to hold the earth imprisoned, rocking fields and woods together in a dungeon of sound. The windows of La Petite Douce shivered apart like notes of music.
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