Both the girls felt their faces glow and their pulses throb; both knew they would do no good by rushing down into the _mle_. They desired neither to deal nor to receive blows; but they could not have run away--Caroline no more than Shirley; they could not have fainted; they could not have taken their eyes from the dim, terrible scene--from the mass of cloud, of smoke, the musket-lightning--for the world.

The girls felt their faces glow and their pulses throb; but knew they would do no good by rushing down into the mle.
They could not take their eyes from the dim, terrible scene - from the mass of cloud, of smoke, the musket-lightning. 