Excerpt: ... as the bull charged into their midst and toppled them over like so many ten pins. It was a moment of such paralyzing terror, that what happened next was a sort of blur on their minds. Billie remembered being tossed in the air and at the same moment hearing the crack of a pistol three times in quick succession. A most blissful period of unconsciousness followed this incident. Perhaps, when the bull had tossed her, she had not come down but was still floating above the heads of her friends, whose voices she could ...
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Excerpt: ... as the bull charged into their midst and toppled them over like so many ten pins. It was a moment of such paralyzing terror, that what happened next was a sort of blur on their minds. Billie remembered being tossed in the air and at the same moment hearing the crack of a pistol three times in quick succession. A most blissful period of unconsciousness followed this incident. Perhaps, when the bull had tossed her, she had not come down but was still floating above the heads of her friends, whose voices she could dimly hear a great way off. "This is a bad day's work you've done, sir, and bad luck to you," said some one quite near. Billie opened her eyes and tried to sit up, but her head seemed to be weighted with lead and there was a pain in her side. Miss Campbell was kneeling beside her dabbing her face with a wet handkerchief. Elinor and Nancy were chafing her wrists, while Mary sat at her feet and gazed at her with the sorrowful expression of one who is looking upon the face of a dead friend. "Nonsense," said another voice, and Billie, twisting her head, saw that it was Feargus O'Connor who spoke, "do you think I'm the man to stand by while a mad bull charges a party of ladies?" Never had his Irish brogue been more distinct than at that moment. "Ye might ha' winged him without killin' 'im dead. Five hundred pounds he were worth, and no less. A grand animal! What will His Grace say to this day's doin's, I wonder?" "Whoever he is, if he has any manhood in his soul, he'll say I did right," cried Feargus with a laugh. "Are five ladies to be gored to death for the sake of a few pounds of beef? You English are all alike. Afraid to call your souls your own; afraid to do right; afraid to save a life because of what some lord can do to you. You're a poor set of cringing peasants, that's what you are. Do you think I'm afraid of having defended five ladies against a mad bull? Bring on 'His Grace, ' whoever...
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