August noon
Her great bright eyes flashed fire : an unholy joy laughed in them . `` We will baptize them over again ! '' she said ; and all her face laughed and sparkled in the moonlight . There was fierce mountain blood in her veins ; it grew hot at the thought of slaughter like the juice of grapes warmed in an August noon . He laughed slow , savagely . `` Their blood will be on their own heads ! '' He meant to drive them out , swamp them in the stream , choke them in the sand , hunt them in the heather ; make every man of them rue the day that ever they came thither to meddle with the Edera water .