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The Aid-de-Camp, meanwhile, had deposited his saddle in a corner near the fire, and on his return to the door, met the inhospitable woodsman advancing as if to court a personal encounter. "Now, I'll tell you what it is, friend," he said calmly, throwing hack at the same time the blanket that concealed his uniform, and what was more imposing a brace of large pistols stuck in his belt.
'What shall I say to make her forthcoming? asked the aid-de-camp. 'Anything you choose, replied the lawyer. 'Is it my business to make lies for you, do you think? But let her be in praesentia by eight o'clock, as I have said before. The clerk grinned, made his reverence, and exit. 'That's a useful fellow, said the Counsellor; 'I don't believe his match ever carried a process.
Notwithstanding the pertinacity with which her aged father lingered in the room, the handsome and elegant De Courcy contrived more than once to address her in an under tone, and elicit a blush that greatly heightened the brilliant expression of her large black eyes, and Villiers subsequently declared that he had remarked the air of joyousness and triumph that pervaded her features on the young aid-de-camp promising to return to the farm as soon as the place had been entered, and leisure afforded him.
On the 4th of June, Loftus, at the instance of Colonel Walpole, aid-de-camp to the Lord Lieutenant, who had lately joined him with considerable reinforcements, resolved to beat up the rebel quarters at Corrigrua.
"In consequence of this state of things, the general advised that lines of defence should be drawn from the Schuylkill, about the heights of Springatsbury, eastward to the Delaware, and General Putnam was ordered to superintend them." Major Burr was now actively engaged as the aid-de-camp of General Putnam, whose esteem and unbounded confidence he continued to enjoy. He writes Colonel Ogden,
I carried letters from England to Field Marshal Sir John French, to Colonel Brinsley Fitzgerald, aid-de-camp to the "Chief," as he is called, and to General Huguet, the liaison between the French and English Armies. His official title is something entirely different, but the French word is apt. He is the connecting link between the English and French Armies.
The aid-de-camp stooped for it Lady Cecilia pitied it Lady Davenant pronounced it to be Helen's own fault Beauclerc understood how it happened, and said nothing. "But, Helen," cried Lady Cecilia, as she re-appeared, "but, Helen, are you not coming with us?"
Meanwhile the collection of internal revenue dues on the precious metals and direct assessments shall be continued." The following is the organization of the army in its march from Puebla to the City of Mexico: GENERAL STAFF. Lieutenant-Colonel Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Assistant Inspector General. Captain Henry Lee Scott, Acting Adjutant General. First-Lieutenant T. Williams, Aid-de-camp.
She would fall back every now and then, and let Uncle Fountain pass her; then come dashing up to him, and either pull up short with a piece of solemn information like an aid-de-camp from headquarters, or pass him shooting a shaft of raillery back into his chariot, whereat he would rise with mock fury and yell a repartee after her. Fountain found himself good company Talboys himself.
In 1770 he was appointed Aid-de-Camp to General Sir Robert Boyd, then Governor of Gibraltar, and obtained a Company in the 47th Regiment of the line. Having gone to America, with his regiment, in 1774, he was present at the battle of Bunker's Hill, where he was severely wounded.
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