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Lord Raglan turned and spoke five words to General Airey. The next minute staff-officers were galloping to each division with the glad tidings: "The line will advance!" All along it men rose from the ground with a resolute air, fell into their ranks, and then the "Thin Red Line," having a front of two miles and a depth of two men, marched grandly to the fight.
I should prefer to keep Mr. McKay, but I will not stand in his way if he desires to go. I shall not miss him so much now that everything is in good working order." McKay was disposed still to protest, but Lord Raglan cut him short by saying "Come over to headquarters to-morrow, and report yourself to General Airey.
We shall begin by a heavy cannonade." "To last four-and-twenty-hours," said Pélissier, "and then the assault." "At what hour?" asked Lord Raglan. "Daylight, of course!" cried two or three French generals in a breath. "One moment," interposed General Airey. "Day-break is the time of all others that the enemy would expect an attack; they would therefore be best prepared for it then."
"How d'ye do," here the talkative young lady interrupted herself to smile on Bob Apley and Jack Fairmay who were sauntering past them, and for awhile the subject of her interesting flirtation fell through. They had walked on as far as the Montreal Bank during this conversation, and here they met Willie Airey who was talking to a handsome young stranger in military uniform.
"Now Elersley, don't take to moralizing you were never made for it, your face would get so deuced eloquent looking, that the rest of us would lose all our present chances." But Guy neither smiled nor spoke, and this set his friends wondering. On reaching the corner, Will Airey took an arm of each of his companions, and said: "Come along boys to see the tumblers. Come Elersley."
"It's quite extraordinary," said General Airey to McKay and a few more, as they passed out from the council-chamber, "how the enemy gets his information." "Those newspaper correspondents, I suspect, are responsible," said another general. "They let out everything, and the news, directly it is printed, is telegraphed to Russia." "That does not entirely explain it.
On the 21st he forced his way through Olifant's Nek, in the Magaliesberg range, and so established communication with Baden-Powell, whose valiant bushmen, under Colonel Airey, had held their own in a severe conflict near Magato Pass, in which they lost six killed, nineteen wounded, and nearly two hundred horses.
"Filth, manure, offal, dead carcasses, had been allowed to accumulate to such an extent, that we found, on our arrival, in March, 1855, it would have required the labor of three hundred men to remove the local causes of disease before the warm weather set in." General Airey said: "The French General Canrobert came to me, complaining of the condition in which his men were.
But, there, 'tain't no good for to blame he; durn Government! say I, for settin' one man, and him a born fule, to mind seven mile o' coast on a night when an airey mouse cou'dn' see his hand afore his face." "What was the vessel like, Joe, that you saw?" "East Indyman, by the looks of her; and a passel of lubberin' furriners aboard, by the way she was worked.
He was complimented by Lord Raglan and General Airey on the manner in which he had performed his mission. "Matters have improved considerably in the month or two you were absent," said the latter to him one day. "Thanks to the animals you got us, we have been able to bring up sufficient shot and shell." "When is the new bombardment to take place, sir?" "At once." "And the attack?"
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