LXXXI.

For all the answer to his proposition

Was from a pistol-shot that laid him dead;[458]On which the rest, without more intermission,

Began to lay about with steel and lead—

The pious metals most in requisition

On such occasions: not a single head

Was spared;—three thousand Moslems perished here,

And sixteen bayonets pierced the Seraskier.[459]

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