But Jules still cried: “More wine!” And Blanca poured

Like Hebe for this flagrant Hercules,

While ever and anon she eyed his sword;

But—happier fate—while drains he to the lees

Another cup, he drops his head and frees

His carbine with the movement. Swift as thought,

She lifts the weapon—to the vineyard flees;—

The deadly tube she to a level brought,

When Ana’s struggling arm a friendly vine-branch caught.

XI.