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"His picture.... I found it in his house when the cavalry were setting fire to it.... Oh, I am tired of it all deathly, deathly sick!... Look at him lying here! Father, Father, is there no end to death?" The priest rose wearily; through the back-drifting smoke the long battle line of the Excelsiors wavered like phantoms in the mist.
But the two remaining guns could not be handled quickly enough, and the Excelsiors took them with a rush and a cheer, and in such excellent spirits that one of them was the moment after sitting astride of each gun and waving his cap in token of victory.
No more uplift. No more little Excelsiors crying world-brotherhood and international love and Leagues of Nations. Idealism and materialism amount to the same thing on top of Pisgah, and the space is very crowded. We're all cornered on our mountain top, climbing up one another and standing on one another's faces in our scream of Excelsior. To your tents, O Israel! Brethren, let us go down.
I did not see much of you during that afternoon; it was a magnificent day, and I said, that, being a visitor, I would look about and see the new buildings. The truth was, I felt a sneaking desire to witness the match-game on the Common, between the Union Base-Ball Club, No. 1, of Ward Eleven, and the Excelsiors of Smithville.
Their officers rode ahead, thrashing through the moist grass; a forest of bayonets swayed in the sun; flag after flag passed, slanting above the masses of blue. She and her prisoner looked on; the flag of the 63d New York swept by; the flags of the 69th and 88th followed. A moment later the columns halted. "Your Excelsiors," said Moray calmly. "They're under fire already. Shall we move on?"
The Chilean ministry has just ordered a dozen of our 'Excelsiors' by cable. Thus successfully does our invention spread over the world. And yet its victorious progress is by no means completed. Even in Japan " and so on. If one looked at this stuff very carefully, one could observe that certain words were lightly marked in pencil.
All the expenses of the trip were paid from the treasury of the traveling club, for there were no inclosed grounds in those days and no questions as to percentage or guarantee were yet agitating the clubs and public. The Excelsiors won every game, and their skillful display and gentlemanly appearance did much to popularize the game in the cities visited.
Behind her the signal flags were fluttering wildly once more; a priest, standing near her, turned nodding: "Our boys will be going in before sundown," he said quietly. "Are you Father Corby, chaplain of the Excelsiors?" "Yes, madam."
When I thought of the manly figures and handsome, eager faces of my friends of the "Union" and the "Excelsior," the Excelsiors won by ten tallies, I should say, the return match to come off at Smithville the next month, and then looked at the meagre form and wan countenance of their critic, I thought to myself, "Dolorosus, my boy, you are killing something besides Time, if you only knew it."
"Damnation!" he blazed out, and the oath seemed to shock her to self-mastery. "Don't ask me now," she said. "If it's Moray, I'll get him.... What are those troops over there, General?" pointing through the doorway. "The Excelsiors Irish Brigade." She nodded carelessly. "And where are the signal men? Where is your signal officer stationed Captain " "Do you mean West?
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