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Colonel Egerton's 20th Dragoons, being in blue and orange, got off easier, though the freshness of their uniforms was tremendously resented; but McDunn's 10th Flying Battery, in brand new uniforms, ran the full fierce fire of chaff; the indignant cannoneers were begged to disclose the name of the stage line which had supplied their battery horses; and Arthur Wye, driving the showy swing team of No. 6, Left Section, shouted back in his penetrating voice: "If you want to know who sells broken-down nags to suckers, it's Simon Cameron! you Dutch-faced, barrel-bellied, Pennsylvania scuts!"
Finding, however, that he could not be removed without a stretcher, he ran back across the open to Egerton's pit, where he procured one; and in spite of a very heavy fire from the Russian batteries, he carried it to where Lieutenant Hobson was lying, and brought in his brother officer in safety.
Egerton's triumph, it was much damped when, on leaving the dinner given in honour of the victory at the Lansmere Arms, and about, with no steady step, to enter a carriage which was to convey him to his Lordship's house, a letter was put into his hands by one of the gentlemen who had accompanied the captain to the scene of action; and the perusal of that letter, and a few whispered words from the bearer thereof, sent the squire back to Mrs.
Here then you have the key to the locked chambers of Audley Egerton's character, the fortified castle of his mind.
"I want to know why you spoke to me of Mr. Egerton's ruin; why you spoke to me of the lands to be sold by Mr. Thornhill; and why you spoke to me of Count Peschiera. You touched on each of those points within ten minutes, you omitted to indicate what link can connect them."
When at last she found the little girl just coming out of Spiller's pawnshop she laid a trembling hand on her arm. "Jasmine, oh, my dear child, you have been in there! You have been pawning something." Jasmine was in such a depressed state of mind that even Miss Egerton's unexpected return failed to astonish her. She said, raising two sad eyes to the good lady's face
"The years are nothing, mere dates in an almanac; but the feelings, what can give me back those? the hope, the enthusiasm, the No matter! feelings do not, help men to rise in the world. Egerton's feelings are not too lively. What I might have been, leave it to me to remember; let us talk of the example you set before me, of Audley Egerton."
Hang his impertinence; if ever I can pay him off, I guess I sha'n't fail for want of good will!" "Ordered you out of the room? That's not like Egerton, who is civil, if formal, at least to most men. You must have offended him in his weak point." "A man whom the public pays so handsomely should have no weak point. What is Egerton's?"
The ceremony was concluded with a long and fervent prayer by the minister, as old and young knelt around the family altar, a prayer which included a distinct comprehensive petition for each member of the family and one from which they all arose strengthened and bettered and ready for the battle against wrong. Still more solemn had been the visitations of John Egerton's grandfather.
In all these signs Lottie read disappointment of Egerton's hopes, and of Elsie's, so far as he was concerned. "So I suppose her father has commanded her to give him up," she said to herself. "Poor thing! I wonder if she means to be as submissive as she thought she would."
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