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Cathcart's very excellent cigars. They moved stiffly and stood in attitudes more professional than elegant. The long, clear-coloured drawing-room beyond offered a perspective of much amiable comfort.
For it is harsh discipline even to a noble woman, whose life is still strong in her, to stand by and see another woman but a few years her junior entering on those joys which she has lost, marriage, probably motherhood as well. Roger Ormiston's and Mary Cathcart's love-making was restrained and dignified.
Lord Raglan, perceiving that it was the intention of the Russians to carry off the guns they had captured from the Turks, ordered up General Cathcart's brigade to prevent them from effecting their object.
Moreover, our action did not benefit Sweden, but just the reverse. Cathcart's force, that had been helping the Swedes in the defence of their Pomeranian province, was withdrawn in order to strengthen our hands against Copenhagen. Thereupon the gallant Gustavus, overborne by the weight of Marshal Brune's corps, sued for an armistice.
Mary Cathcart's hand slid from under his hand. She too rose to her feet. "Then you have actually cared for me all along, all these years," Ormiston declared in fierce joy. "Of course who else could I care for? And and you've loved me, Roger, all the while?" And Ormiston answered "Yes," speaking the truth, though with a difference.
It was a singularly ugly saddle, running up into a peak front and back, furnished with a complicated system of straps and buckles and in place of stirrups and stirrup-leathers with a pair of contrivances resembling old-fashioned holsters. Mary Cathcart's brown eyes had grown moist on first beholding it. And Colonel Ormiston had exclaimed, "Good God!
Cathcart's remarks, he had felt that that lady was unjust to the doctor. But to think that his line, for he had no son, should merge into that of the Armstrongs, who were of somewhat dubious descent in his eyes, and Scotch, too though, by the way, his own line was Scotch, a few hundred years back was sufficient to cause him very considerable uneasiness pain would be the more correct word.
Its effect upon the Russian mind was lasting; out of all their vast array hardly a single squadron was ever after able to keep its ground against the approach of English cavalry; while but for Cathcart's obstinacy and Lucan's temper it would have issued in the immediate recapture of the Causeway Heights.
I disregard Cathcart's tenure of office. For all practical purposes it was merely that of an acting governor. Instructions to the Right Hon. C. Poulett Thomson, 7 September, 1839. Ibid. Lord John Russell to the Rt. Hon. C. Poulett Thomson, 14 October, 1839. Lord John Russell to the Right Hon. C. P. Thomson, 16 October, 1839.
He presses a subject home too closely. And, if I was bamboozled by Image, it really isn't Cathcart's place to remind me of it." He turned a worried and puckered countenance upon his hostess, upon Dr. Knott, upon the drawing-room door. In the hall beyond one or two guests still lingered. A lady had just joined them, notably straight and tall, and lazily graceful of movement.
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