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The whole thing seemed to me perfectly reasonable. It was the middle of July. The lark was warbling in the sky. The crops were waving in the plain, the gentle breezes carried on them the soft cry of the quail and the partridge amongst the standing wheat; the foliage was glancing in the sunshine, and the Lauter ran its course beneath the willows; but what was all that to me, the great burgomaster?
Jack began to fire volleys of questions at the young hussar as soon as they entered the forest, and poor Georges replied as best he could. "I don't know very much about it; I was detached yesterday and taken on General Douay's staff. We were at Wissembourg you know that little town on the Lauter where the vineyards cover everything and the mountains are pretty steep to the north and west.
Like a hydra of three hideous heads the German army had pushed its course over the Saar, over the Rhine, over the Lauter; it sniffed at the frontier line; licked Wissembourg and the Spicheren with flaming tongues, shuddered, coiled, and glided over the boundary into the fair land of Lorraine.
For instance, those of Wissembourg, which, covered by the Lauter flowing in front, supported by the Rhine on the right and the Vosges on the left, seemed to fulfill all the conditions of safety; and yet they were forced on every occasion when they were assailed.
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"From the south and east," he repeated; "from the Landesgrenze." "The frontier?" "Yes. Hark!" "I hear." "From the frontier," he said again. "From the river Lauter and from Wissembourg." "What is it?" she whispered, close beside him. "Cannon!"
Marshal Villeroi had constructed an entrenched camp to cover the town; but on the approach of the victor of Blenheim he fell back, leaving Landau to its fate. Marlborough followed him, and made every effort to bring the French to a battle; but Villeroi fell back behind the Lauter, and then behind the Motter, abandoning without a blow one of the strongest countries in Europe.
The commissioners, Saint-Just and Lebas, gave the chief command to Hoche, made terror and victory the order of the day; and generals Brunswick and Wurmser were very soon driven from Haguenau on the lines of the Lauter, and not being able even to maintain that position, passed the Rhine at Philipsburg. Spire and Worms were retaken.
'Lisbeth, Gretchen... what was that lovely German name... hild... Brunhilde... Talk had begun again. Miriam hoped they had not noticed her. Her "Braten" shot up the lift. "Lauter Unsinn!" announced Clara. "We've all got to do our hair in clash... clashishsher Knoten, Hendy, all of us," said Jimmie judicially, sitting forward with her plump hands clasped on the table.
"And the smoke on the horizon?" "The smoke from the guns. They are fighting beyond Saarbrück yes, beyond Pfalzburg and Wörth; they are fighting beyond the Lauter." "Wissembourg?" "I think so. They are nearer now. Monsieur de Nesville, the battle has gone against the French." "How do you know?" demanded the marquis, harshly. "I have seen battles. One need only listen and look at the army yonder.
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