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Blaine smiled, as he interrupted with: 'Like Balaklava, eh? Or old Pickett's third day charge at Gettysburg?" Erwin did not reply. Blaine continued: "If we go strong enough and swift and low enough, we'll got there; and, once there we'll do the bombing all righty!" "And in broad daylight, too?" "I don't say that, Orry. All this is strictly between you and me.
And while the vehicle rolled away he growled to himself: "Of course she would and quite right!" "Judge for yourself when you get a chance," Nash had said to him; and as it turned out he was able to judge two days later, for he found his cousin in Balaklava Place on the Tuesday following his walk with their insufferable friend.
The harbor of Balaklava was but ill-suited for the requirements of a large army. It was some half mile in length and a few hundred yards broad, and looked like a little inland lake, for the rocks rose precipitously at its mouth, and the passage through them made a bend, so that the outlet was not visible from a ship once fairly inside.
One was when six hundred English horsemen were sent by mistake against a whole battery of Russian cannon, and rode on as bravely as if they were not seeing their comrades shot down, till scarcely half were left. This was called the Charge of Balaklava.
Graham received this letter at Balaklava, at the end of a long day's work, and laughed out loud as he read the stiff, formal little epistle, which, to the young man in the midst of the whirl and bustle of camps and hospitals, seemed like a voice from another world; there was something too ludicrous in the notion of a child of eleven years old being forbidden to receive letters, because she might possibly be a nun nine or ten years hence.
At Cold Harbor the 25th Massachusetts lost 70 per cent., and the 10th Tennessee at Chickamauga 68 per cent.; while at Shiloh the 9th Illinois lost 63 per cent., and the 6th Mississippi 70 per cent.; and at Antietam the 1st Texas lost 82 percent. The loss of the Light Brigade in killed and wounded in its famous charge at Balaklava was but 37 per cent.
Night after night she found him sleeping with the Balaklava sword by his side, and his hand clasped over it; and he always crept out of the way of Crimean news, though that he gathered up the facts was plain when he committed his sovereign to Ulick, with a request that it might be devoted to the comforts preparing to be sent to the 25th Lancers.
And often and often, when a new freight of agony was landed, she looked round from bed to bed, if his face too, might be there. And once, at Balaklava, she knew she saw him: but not on a sick bed. Standing beneath the window, chatting merrily with a group of officers It was he! Could she mistake that figure, though the face was turned away?
At last words bubbled forth: "There! there! There it is! the belt! your belt! Take it! take it, I say!" He stood silent and wondering; she thrust it into his hand. "Take it! I have carried it for you worn it next my heart, till it has all but eaten into my heart. To Varna, and you were not there! Scutari, Balaklava, and you were not there! I found it, only a week after!
The Balaklava illustration is as striking in its way as Tennyson's lines, though containing less of poetic heroism and more ugly realism.
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