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Updated: May 27, 2025
'It will be pleasant to travel in the cool of the evening, provided that one guards against a chill, said the General, making his final preparations. 'I require but a moment to speak to my faithful aide- de-camp, and then we embark.
Rather impatiently he watched the slow minute-hand on the clock. He had risen from his desk at four-thirty, when his personal aide, a handsome, boyish, rosy-cheeked young officer, who seemed to be moulded into his uniform, appeared. "Your car is waiting, sir," he said. His military correctness could not hide the admiration and devotion in his eyes.
Standing rigidly erect, the aide said coldly, "My name is John Brereton; nor have I the honour of your acquaintance." "What's to do here?" ejaculated Lord Clowes. "I know the man to be what he says, and that he has come in disguise within our lines to spy."
Raising the hand he held, the aide kissed it fondly. "I know I've given you reason to think me disrespectful and rough; I know I have the devil's own temper; but if I've caused you pain at moments, I've suffered tenfold in the recollection. Can you not forgive me?"
One day I was down at the headquarters at Larkin's horse, when General Kearney remarked to me that he was going down to Los Angeles in the ship Lexington, and wanted me to go along as his aide. Of course this was most agreeable to me. Two of Stevenson's companies, with the headquarters and the colonel, were to go also. They embarked, and early in May we sailed for San Pedro.
All were ordered to intrench as rapidly and thoroughly as possible, for it was plain that we now commanded a short road to the railway in Johnston's rear, and that he must drive us out or abandon the Kennesaw line he had clung to so stubbornly. I had sent my aide, Mr. Lieutenant Coughlan was afterward killed in the heroic performance of duty at the battle of Franklin.
The officer then recited the nature of the heroic act which had won the approval of the jeddak, and the latter advanced and placed a metal ornament upon the left arm of the lucky man. Ten men had been so decorated when the aide called out, "John Carter, air scout!"
"I'll not stop now, father," said the aide dryly. "Perhaps, upon my return to Frederick I may call upon you." "Do so, do so, my son," said Father Tierney. "And ye're going to overtake the lieutenant with the general's last words? Faith, and while I think of it he let drop that he'd be after not going by the pike. The old road by the forge, that goes south, and then turns.
Mounting a creaky ladder there was no stairway to the upper story, we found a good-sized room with three large beds, one of which the Chancellor assigned to the Duke of Mecklenburg and aide, and another to Count Bismarck-Bohlen and me, reserving the remaining one for himself.
He became after a time her attendant, aide, and occasional wit-foil. They had some sharp exchanges: and he could not but reflect on the pleasure her keen zest of appreciation gave him compared with Cornelia's grave smile, which had often kindled in him profane doubts of the positive brightness, or rapidity of her intelligence. "Besworth at sunset!
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