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When the scouts came back, they reported that Santa Anna's army was coming straight for San Antonio, several thousand strong. The whole city was at once thrown into a commotion, and it was felt that the garrison could do little or nothing toward defending the place. "We are but a hundred and forty odd strong," said Lieutenant A. M. Dickenson, one of the attachees of the garrison.
The greater number who knew him and did not like him felt and resented, even though in nine cases out of ten they might express no resentment even to themselves, the pugnacity of his steady glance. For he was essentially one of those men who are always, in the inner workings of their minds, defending themselves and attacking others.
When the enemy was before the walls of Jerusalem, and the heads of the state were rallying the citizens to the last and most sacred duty of defending their hearths and altars, he had still to predict that resistance was useless; and he was imprisoned as a traitor, because his words were disheartening the soldiers.
That produced another still more outspoken letter from her; and so the correspondence went on, she attacking and I defending, until a serious breach seemed to be opening between us. I refrained from writing at last, not out of ill temper, but because I thought that if she were given time she would cool down, and take, perhaps, a more reasonable view of the situation.
"Possess your soul in peace. I think I know him." "Are you defending the braggart?" "Not at all! I detest him," cried the girl, springing to her feet, her face crimsoning. "He is perfectly abominable."
The King had not come that was the grim fact the King had not come to claim his own; had left his honest gentlemen to fight or fall without him; and no one, even now, could tell how different the event might have been that day had George the Fifth but proved his own cause worth defending. Geoffrey, Dacre, none of them had had news of the King since the day of Aldershot.
He was really the mainstay of Sitting Bull's effective last stand. He consistently upheld his people's right to their buffalo plains and believed that they should hold the government strictly to its agreements with them. When the treaty of 1868 was disregarded, he agreed with Sitting Bull in defending the last of their once vast domain, and after the Custer battle entered Canada with his chief.
I fight to deserve it still, or to die in defending it.” They wept and wailed so that he had to wait to be heard again, and then he said, “Comrades, this is our fairest day;” after which they all went to the Cathedral of St. Sophia, and received the Holy Communion together.
"Where were you brought up?" asked the daughter-in-law, with so impertinent a look that Madame Bovary asked her if she were not perhaps defending her own case. "Leave the room!" said the young woman, springing up with a bound. "Emma! Mamma!" cried Charles, trying to reconcile them. But both had fled in their exasperation. Emma was stamping her feet as she repeated "Oh! what manners!
It is probable that no one there would have thought of defending it, but for the certainty of powerful support being at hand. This certainty encouraged the garrison, rendering their exertions more ready and cheerful. Betts divided his men into parties of two, scattering them along the Summit, with orders to be vigilant, and to support each other.
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