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Posting most of his men, unarmed and armed, upon the best fortified and strong points of the place towards the interior, with orders to repel any attack of the land forces, he picked sixty heavy infantry and a few archers from his whole force, and with these went outside the wall down to the sea, where he thought that the enemy would most likely attempt to land.
Stanley's bright and graphic letters contribute to the story of their adventures, and are added to make it complete. A long Channel passage Bruges The battlefield A posting journey Compiègne Paris Michael Bruce. Mrs. E. Stanley to Lady Maria Stanley. Spring, 1816.
"Yes, madame, and may your eloquence prevail!" exclaimed Korner, opening the door, and posting himself beside it in order to allow the lady to pass out. Graceful and smiling, she hastened through the gloomy room and approached the door, followed by the two volunteers with their rosy faces and bright eyes.
After this letter had been written she delayed posting it although never ceasing to feel strenuously that the deed must be done. Several days passed. There was another Indian letter for Elfride. Coming unexpectedly, her father saw it, but made no remark why, she could not tell. The news this time was absolutely overwhelming.
I was engaged after dinner in my study posting up my books, which, through press of other work and the many visits to Lucy, had fallen sadly into arrear. Suddenly the door was burst open, and in rushed my patient, with his face distorted with passion. I was thunderstruck, for such a thing as a patient getting of his own accord into the Superintendent's study is almost unknown.
A practice prevails amongst newspaper publishers in America, which is, I believe, only resorted to in England in cases of public emergency or unusual excitement, and that but seldom; I mean that of posting on large placards the latest arrival of news, home or foreign: thus, whenever you return home after a sojourn in the city, the eager inquiry is sure to be, "Any news up town?"
We were married, and took our departure next day. I made no delay in posting at once, in company with my wife and my friend Briggs, to my native village. Judge of my horror and surprise when my late adopted father came out of his shop to welcome me. "Then you are not dead!" I gasped. "No, my dear boy." "And this letter?"
We must accept as equally exact his thrice-repeated statement in letters to the Senate that the prince had planned Cesare's death by posting crossbow-men to shoot him.
There was no one astir, no one on the road before or behind him. Across the narrow canal was a bare field. The convent wall bounded the view on the left hand. Sarrion rode up to the gate and rang a bell, which clanged with a sort of surreptitiousness just within. He only rang once, and then waited, posting himself immediately opposite a little grating let into the solid wood of the door.
"Stop!" say I, panting as I come up with him, "I dare say perhaps you thought you were speaking truth! there must, must be some mistake!" He does not answer, but still walks quickly on. "Tell me!" cry I, posting on alongside of him, breathless and distressed "when was it? where did you hear it? how long ago?" "I never heard it?"
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