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The crowd outside the palace yard, which this daily sight attracts, dispersed reluctantly, its particles doubtless holding themselves ready to reassemble at the slightest notice. It formed a small portion only of the population of London which has volunteer charge of the goings and comings at Buckingham Palace.
The censure was withdrawn as soon as, in the light of full explanations, the circumstances came to be understood. Professor Charles Sprague Sargent, of Harvard University, Director of the Arnold Arboretum, the distinguished author of the great book on Forest Trees of North America. At this time he was serving zealously as a volunteer aide-de-camp without pay.
Why, when he found I was coming up from Domremy to volunteer, he asked me to let him come along in my protection, and see the crowds and the excitement.
It annoyed him that a non-commissioned officer should have taken such a time and place to offer a complaint. He still disapproved. Moreover, he had given Sergeant Fitzroy no authority to go as volunteer aid to Sergeant Stowell. "How did you happen to be in town, sergeant?" was the abrupt demand.
So I evaded the question, clumsily enough, as has ever been my hap in fencing with words. "The cause was not wanting. If any ask, you may say he trod upon my foot in passing." Jennifer laughed. "And for that you struck him? Heavens, man! you hold your life carelessly. Do you happen to know that this volunteer captain of light-horse is accounted the best blade in the troop?"
"Borrow has got back to his own Oulton Lodge. My Nephew, Edmund Kerrich, now Adjutant to some Volunteer Battalion, wants a house NEAR, not IN, Lowestoft: and got some Agent to apply for Borrow's who sent word that he is himself there an old Man wanting Retirement, etc. This was the account Edmund got.
'Take 'em in flank when you can't break their centre, said Con. 'Well, you shall really try whether you can endure the work for a short time if you are in earnest, Miss Mattock addressed the volunteer. 'But I am, he said. 'We are too poor at present to refuse the smallest help. 'And mine is about the smallest. 'I did not mean that, Mr. O'Donnell. 'But you'll have me? 'Gladly.
He was an artist; but he had been engaged by her, and was not a volunteer; and she did not as yet know that he meant to accept no return for his labours but the pleasure of presenting them to her as a love-offering. So off he went at once towards the imposing building whither his letters had preceded him.
Then he slowly and with hesitating accent offered the second volunteer toast: "The Union! Next to Our Liberty Most Dear!"
Cockburn's boast to Key that the reduction of the city would be "a matter of a few hours" did not look improbable. It was garrisoned by a small force of regulars under General Armistead, assisted by some volunteer artillerists under Judge Nicholson.
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