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Just then, Sir Howard Elphinstone was appointed to the command of the Royal Engineers in Mauritius. it was a thankless and insignificant post; and, rather than accept it, Elphinstone was prepared to retire from the Army unless some other officer could be induced, in return for £800, to act as his substitute.
No one had been in that room before me that morning, so the servant could not have carried away anything that had been used the night before. I searched everywhere for a second cup but could find none. "Did Smith stay late?" I asked of Brigitte. "He left about midnight." "Did you retire alone or did you call some one to assist you?" "I retired alone; every one in the house was asleep."
"Ben Greenway," cried Captain Bonnet, as he waved his sword in the air, "if you talk to me like that I will cut you down where you stand! You forget that you are not talking to a country gentleman, but to a pirate, a pirate of the seas!" Ben grinned, but seeing the temper his master was in, thought it wise to retire.
The wounded were safely brought in by Bennett, whose control and leadership were worthy of a luckier enterprise. On this occasion the 'order to retire' was said to have been of German manufacture, but such explanation deserved a grain of salt. The Battalion was not called upon for much fighting activity in September, 1916. Raids and rumours of raids kept many of us busy.
Having lost everything he possessed, and having passed such a long time without any employment more profitable than that of shooting fish with a bow and arrows, our doughty pirate now desired to make a grand strike, and if he could take a town and pillage it of everything valuable it contained, he would make a very good fortune in a very short time, and might retire, if he chose, from the active practice of his profession.
He had no sooner, therefore, irrevocably arrived at this decision, than he addressed a letter to the Regent, in which he requested her permission to retire from the Government; and, satisfied that his suit must prove successful, he calmly awaited her reply.
When the news spread there was a moment of alarm, and the Council of Defence proposed to retire from the capital. Danton declared that he would burn Paris to the ground rather than abandon it to the enemy. Lavergne, who made so poor a defence at Longwy, was afterwards condemned to death.
And now the fountain ceases to trickle; the mouth from which issued that cool and limpid flux ceases to smile; the figure is seen to bow and retire; a buzz, a hum, a whisper, a scuffle, a meeting of bonnets and wagging of feathers and rustling of silks ensues. "Thank you! delightful, I am sure!"
They accordingly determined to retire to the inner part of the cavern, and to wait there till they calculated that the tide would once more have come in. "We must make up our minds to enjoy six hours of daylight, and to endure six of darkness," observed Bill. "I sha'n't care much about that; we can but go to sleep and amuse ourselves the best way we can think of while the tide is in," said Jack.
We began by sowing the cotton, then the fields of millet, maize, and beans. Early in the morning, the family went to work; some digged, others sowed, till the fierceness of the sun forced us to retire to the cottage, where we expected a plate of kouskous, of fish, and a little rest.
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