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These stalwarts of the latest class were loaded with horns and noise-machines. Defiance exhaled from them. It was an impressive object-lesson on the evils of Freshman victories.
All but a few stalwarts took to flight, and Hart's Hill was taken before sunset on February 27. The capture of the hills supervening on the bad news from Paardeberg shattered the Boer Armies in Natal.
"Don't you do nothink o' the sort!" and added a brief orison in prejudice of his eyesight. Certain of "A's" stalwarts obeyed their Captain, while others took the advice of the volunteer who was known to have been a man of war in the lurid past, and to understand these matters.
For while the latter is quite Addisonian, not merely in dress but in body, its soul is blended of two natures the model's and the artist's in the rather uncanny fashion which makes Esmond as a whole so marvellous, except to those stalwarts who hold that, as nobody before the twentieth century knew anything about anything, Thackeray could not know about the eighteenth.
The "Stalwarts" were composed of the thorough "organization men" like Conkling, Platt and Arthur; the "Half-breeds" were anti-organization men and more sympathetic with the administration. The commander of the Stalwarts and one of the most influential leaders in the country was Roscoe Conkling, Senator from New York.
One of the unfortunate men cut his throat, and several fell seriously ill, the diet and the sanitary conditions being equally unhealthy. At last at the end of May all the prisoners but six were released. Four of the six soon followed, two stalwarts, Sampson and Davies, refusing to sign any petition and remaining in prison until they were set free in 1897.
There is no reason to believe that it was treacherously raised, but it compelled Hamilton to order the Cease Fire. Yet at once half a hundred Boers started up and rushed as a forlorn hope upon the crest: a remnant of stalwarts, who even succeeded in firing a round or two from the guns which had just been taken from them.
Stanley had wired instructions to head-quarters to send him six men that feared neither smoke nor powder, and six stalwarts taken on at Grand Island, North Platte, and Julesburg guarded the car and tumbled like cats out of a bag upon the surprised raiders. The encounter was spirited, but it took only a moment to convince the assaulting party that they had made a mistake.
Through their very regardlessness the Pennies would have been apt to rout the Seminary whose boys had given pledges to respectability, and who had to answer searching questions as to their personal appearance every evening had it not been for stalwarts like McGuffie, whose father, being a horsedealer, did not apply an over strict standard of judgment to his son's manners or exploits, and Robertson, who lived in lodgings and, being a soldier's son, was supposed to be in a state of discipline for the Army.
The crest was attained and carried without much difficulty; for all but a few stalwarts had quitted it when they saw the British bayonets pricking upwards towards their hold. It seemed now that the victory was won, but an unfortunate mistake postponed it.
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