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After a brief halt at the Lys de France at which hostelry I hired myself a room we set out for the Chateau de Canaples, which is situated on the left bank of the Loire, at a distance of about half a league from Blois in the direction of Tours.
"I ask your honour's pardon may not a sortie be ambushed, as well as a march?" "In that sense, perhaps, you may be right. And, now you mention it, I think it odd there should be so much industry at wood-chopping, in a moment like this. We will halt as soon as the sounds are fairly abreast of us, when you and I can reconnoitre the men, and ascertain the appearance of things for ourselves."
Toward night, Ella became so fatigued and exhausted by the long day's march, that it was with the greatest difficulty she could move forward at all; and Girty, taking some compassion on her, ordered the party to halt, until a rough kind of litter could be prepared; on which being seated, she was borne forward by four of the Indians.
She was past one picket now, and in her eagerness one foot slipped and she half fell. She almost held her breath and lay still. "I hear somethin' up thar in the bresh," shouted the second picket. "Halt!" Melissa tinkled the sheep-bell and pushed a bush to and fro as though a sheep or a cow might be rubbing itself, and the picket she had passed laughed aloud.
I have in the course of my life seen many women display greater courage than men, but for a few seconds only; and you will need a strong dose of resolution to keep you on horseback the whole day, barring a halt for breakfast, which we shall take, like true hunters and huntresses, on the nail. Are you still determined to show yourselves trained horse-women?"
The reports had not yet died away when the redskin aimed at by Dan flung up one arm and sank back, badly wounded in the side. Ralph had missed his mark by a few inches. The sudden attack brought the remaining Indians to a halt, and for a second they appeared not to know what to do next.
Not long after the conversation just narrated, the boat arrived with the gentleman appointed to relieve MacSweenie of his charge on Great Bear Lake, and with the supplies for the contemplated new post. Action is not usually allowed to halt in those wild regions.
The Allies were fagged out with the marchings and the heat of the day when they came in sight of the enemy's forces near Oudenarde. "Precious glad of a rest!" Matthew Blackett remarked when the signal to halt came. To his surprise and dismay the order to form immediately followed. "Just like the Duke," commented his friend Fairburn. Quickly the cavalry were got together for a charge.
"When we had got within about five miles of the mountain-foot, the other ox broke down, and fell as we supposed dead. We could take the wagon no farther; but it was no time either to hesitate or halt: we must try it afoot, or perish where we were. "I loosed out the horse, and left him to his will I saw he was no longer able to carry any of us.
To this was the logical objection that they were already more than mutineers that there was no future for them; that, even though he overawed and conquered them, compelling them to work the boat shoreward, each passing minute would find them more keen to revolt; and that, if they rushed him in a body, he could only halt a few the others would master him.