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Fastolffe and his men, on the outer skirts of the force, rode off at once in some order, heading straight for Paris, but the braver and less prudent Talbot sought, again and again, to rally his men, and bring them to face the foe. But it was useless. The rout was utter and complete.
What proportion of the ferocious, fanatical, and sanguinary rout who, the other day, near the centre of the metropolitan see of Canterbury, were brought into action by the madman Thom, alias Sir W. Courtenay; stout, well-fed, proud Englishmen Englishmen "the glory of all lands," who were capable of believing that madman a divine personage, Christ himself, invulnerable, till the fact happened otherwise, and then were confident he would come to life again?
My throat is a bed of live cinders." Burke intervened. "No no! Go slow, I tell you! Go slow! Get some tea, Sylvia! Where are those Kaffirs?" "They haven't been near all day," Sylvia said. "I frightened Rosamond away this morning, and the others must have been afraid of the storm." "I'll rout 'em out," said Kelly. "No. You stay here! I'll go."
Old Killick, with his hands in his pockets, rolled up and down his deck, chewing a quid of tobacco, and giving his opinions on the subject. "Pass Quebec! bless you, my dears, I'll undertake to pass the town guns any hour of the day or night you like to send me. What a rout they did make, to be sure, about their old river! They make just such a rout about their precious guns!
But this good lady wants to see men chatting together upon the Pelagian heresy to hear, in the afternoon, the theological rumours of the day and to glean polemical tittle-tattle at a tea-table rout. All the disciples of this school uniformly fall into the same mistake.
The Highland right broke through Barrel's regiment, swept over the guns, and died on the bayonets of the second line. They had thrown down their muskets after one fire, and, says Cumberland, stood "and threw stones for at least a minute or two before their total rout began." Probably the fall of Lochiel, who was wounded and carried out of action, determined the flight.
"It's these people of the inn it's that boy. I wish I had put his eyes out!" cried the blind man, Pew. "They were here no time ago they had the door bolted when I tried it. Scatter, lads, and find 'em." "Sure enough, they left their glim here," said the fellow from the window. "Scatter and find 'em! Rout the house out!" reiterated Pew, striking with his stick upon the road.
Of the Saxons about 2,000 had fallen, while the loss of the Swedes did not exceed 700. The rout of the Imperialists was so complete, that Tilly, on his retreat to Halle and Halberstadt, could not rally above 600 men, or Pappenheim more than 1,400 so rapidly was this formidable army dispersed, which so lately was the terror of Italy and Germany. Tilly himself owed his escape merely to chance.
They make their way through the narrowest crevices, dive down to the lowest depths we can reach, disturb our domestic happiness, watch for us on our hunting expeditions, and rout us out of our securest strongholds.
There was a brief terrified stand in the Plaza, and then a complete rout. As was their custom, the native Democrats began at once to loot the city. But Walker put his sword into the first one of these he met, and ordered the Americans to arrest all others found stealing, and to return the goods already stolen.
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