"O shame! O you cowards!" she added, her hands now indignantly beating on the hus.

Three or four men rushed forward on Ranulph.

He hurled them back.

Others came on with weapons.

The girl fled for an instant, then reappeared with a musket, as the people were crowding in on Delagarde with threats and execrations.
"Stop! stop!" cried the girl from above, as Ranulph seized a black-smith's hammer to meet the onset.