i saw him boldly throw back the bar and sans-pause gapingly fling wide the destroyed and caved-in and splintering wooden door , he having no desire nor thought of any safety , and two abhorrent , instantly oncoming , blunt-ended , unswerving and razor-sharp raised scimitars erupted downwards and mercilessly split ope ' the proferred surface of his too-freely tendered an unready breast , twice bloodily rending his shirt and his youthful scan , causing the painfullest fleshly harm , ripping him exposed in two foot-long places .