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The effect was electrical; they returned to the charge and drove back the troops of Pappenheim, who were about taking to flight, when the unknown leader fell, mortally wounded. This struck a sudden panic through his followers, and the Austrians turning again, gained a complete victory. But the name of the brave student is unknown, his deed unsung by his country's bards, and almost forgotten.
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It was, of course, beyond our power to follow them; and I ordered the deployed line to close in around the prisoners already taken, lest they should attempt to imitate their braver comrades. We had no fear of being assailed from the ravine. Those who had gone down carried a panic along with them that would secure us from that danger.
His hair and mustache, which a year before had been coal black, were now quite grey; he seemed another man than he had once been. He saluted the Colonel, and said quietly: "I have come, sir, to give myself up I am the man, John Lawrence, who struck Sergeant McGillicuddy last January, and deserted." "You were a great fool," replied the Colonel, "I think it was a clear case of a fool's panic."
But they're still building; and besides, what if the Hobo does break down? There's plenty to eat and drink, I hope. Nobody would suffer much." "No," said Billoo, "it would be no suffering for a business man to be storm-bound here during a probable panic in Wall Street! "I'm tired," I said, "of hearing you refer to yourself or any of these gentlemen as business men.
He plead the justice of his cause, their duty to be faithful to their rightful sovereign, and every other argument which was capable of being expressed in the shouts and vociferations which, in such a scene, constitute the only kind of communication possible with panic stricken men; and when he found that all was in vain he said, in despair, that he would rather they would shoot him on the spot than let him live to witness such an abandonment of his cause by the only friends and followers that had been left to him.
True friendship lay underneath this severity, for when Thompson got started on his reminiscences, he was apt to continue indefinitely, to the ruin of his own dignity. "But why this solicitude and panic over being detected in trifling trespass?" asked Willoughby. "Like most things in this country, it appears to be purely a matter of £ s. d.
"Who but a Dutch woman would give a thought to a few particles of dust on her furniture when an enemy was cannonading the town?" "I think she acts wisely after all, Lionel. The fact that everything goes on as usual here and in other houses takes people's thoughts off the dangers of the position, and prevents anything like panic being felt."
In the English country, as well as in the towns, there is a feeling not yet panic, but the dull edge of it that the future will be none too rosy for such as are working, or are in the habit of working. This is all to our advantage. Canada can best serve her own interests and those of the Empire by systematically exploiting this new recruiting-ground.
Say that in the next six months there are half a dozen failures like Ronco's and that a panic sets in. We could then neither sell the houses nor let them. What would they represent to us? Nothing. Failure like the failure of everybody else. Do you know where the millions really are? You ought to know better than most people.
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