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No one would want to buy expensive motor horns in the midst of the greatest war that the world, etc., etc. Still the Reveille Company, after sustaining the shock, had somehow continued to do a pretty good business. It had patriotically offered its plant and services to the War Office, and had been repulsed with contumely and ignominy.
This it was impossible to do by the ordinary system of guard duty; but I suggested a plan which enabled us to have an ample number of sentinels, without exhausting the men. It was done by placing each man on guard for a single hour, between tattoo and reveille, allowing him to sleep for the remainder of the night. Defeat of Captain Seymour's Expedition on the Ashley. Mayor Macbeth's Explanation.
It was twenty minutes later when Greg crept back into the tent and began to undress. "How about it?" whispered Prescott. "I was asked more questions, but all of the same import," Holmes answered in a whisper. "Did the O.C. make you tell on yourself, about being over by the reveille gun?" "No; I thought some of his questions led that way, but my other answers stopped him in that line.
With an accent like gritting your teeth, it is true, and with a grammar that is no improvement on blasphemy still, with practice you get at the meat of what he says, and it serves. . . Hark! That's the reveille. . . . "Faint and far, but isn't it clear, isn't it sweet?
The infantry had gone away and left them, the mounted men, to sweat and swear in the desert till the war was over, and Heaven only knew when that would be. He had been on fatigue to-day for not getting up until an hour after reveille, and he was in no temper to be trifled with.
And over them again over the small space just then allotted them in the world was settling once more the intangible, indefinable spell awakened by their first light contact. Through its silence hurried their pulses; through its significance her dazed young eyes looked out into a haze where nothing stirred except a phantom heart, beating, beating the reveille. And the spell lay heavy on them both.
Huntingdon's residence, and from the observatory or colonnade Irene could look down on the gleaming tents and the flag-staff that stood before the officers' quarters. Reveille startled her at dawn, and tattoo regularly warned her of the shortness of summer nights.
The sky and water were beginning to be touched by the first faint tones of rose, the dawn was bringing its enchantment to this marriage-time of the black and white. Over in the Key West barracks a bugler would soon be blowing reveille; down in the sleeping town stumpy little street cars would squeak from their sheds and clang their discordant gongs through the narrow thoroughfares.
All openings in the hedge were thereafter stopped up, and no one was allowed outside before réveille. Officers and men of Gatacre's division had as usual to sleep in their places lying down in the ranks fully dressed, with their arms beside them, ready to spring to attention. Sentinels and patrols, watchful and observant, moved noiselessly about throughout the whole night.
The parting from thee was a sadness and a violence sadder, I think, than death itself. We look behind us, and sigh after thee, as on the pensive glories of a sunset, and our march is toward the darkness. It is twilight with us now, and will soon be starlight, and the hour and place of slumber, till the reveille sounds, and the day of wonder opens.
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