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Being literally in the thick of it, he could seen less or known less of what happened in that particular skirmish if he had been at home in England. For many good reasons; including dust and smoke, and that what attention he dared distract from his commanding officer was pretty well absorbed by keeping his hard-mouthed troop-horse in hand, under pain of execration by his neighbors in the melde.
Before the remainder could extricate themselves from the melde and make a fair start, Drake and Frobisher had obtained a full fifty yards' lead; and by the time their pursuers had reached the main street, the fugitives were more than half-way to the palace.
Wednesday fortnight is the end of it; that is, it gives me four days after that to reach Vienna. 'And presenting yourself in humble guise before your colonel, to say, "Ich melde mich gehorsamst." 'Not exactly that but something like it.
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