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Twenty or thirty men, dressed in their best burnouses, draped over new gandourahs, their heads swathed in clean white muslin turbans, sat on the opposite side of the court, watching the "powder play" furnished by two tall, handsome boys, who handled with delicate grace and skill old-fashioned, long-muzzled guns inlaid with coral and silver, heirlooms perhaps, and of some value even to antiquaries.
Every month I had seen many new batteries arrive, with clean harness and yellow straps, and young gunners who were quick to get their targets. We were strong in "heavies," twelve-inchers, 9.2's, eight-inchers, 4.2's, mostly howitzers, with the long-muzzled sixty-pounders terrible in their long range and destructiveness.
She was followed by two great, long-muzzled boarhounds. "I was sure you would come, Monsieur Pigeonneau." I stammered a compliment. "How could one possibly refuse anything to so charming a lady?" "O, it is not because I am pretty that I am never refused anything. I have secrets by which I make myself obeyed."
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