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Updated: June 6, 2025
A superstitious fear fell upon the whole Prussian army; even the old battle-stained warriors looked grim and thoughtful. The king alone smiled, and said: "The fall of this clock signifies that the pride of the house of Austria will be humbled. Caesar fell when landing in Africa, and exclaimed: 'I hold thee, Africa!" Those great men would not allow themselves to be influenced by evil omens.
The thought of some stranger holds him, while my intense thoughts and feelings no more affect him than if I were a thousand miles away. How strong and manly he looks! How well that uniform becomes him, though evidently worn and battle-stained! Ah! two stars upon his shoulder! Can it be that he has won such high rank? What will he think of poor me, selling books for bread? Egbert Haldane, beware!
As far as the fireglow could reach, they were flooded with golden light; where it stopped, they were closed across by darkness as by gray-black doors. Within the sylvan alcove, some four-score battle-stained warriors were taking their ease after a hard day.
Were we not civilian prisoners of war: the victims of circumstances under the shield of the best traditions of German honour? But we were not the first arrivals at Sennelager. We were preceded by a few hours by a party of French soldiers captives of war. They were extremely sullen. Travel and battle-stained they crouched and stretched themselves upon the ground.
There was a cluster of them upon her bosom, and she held some in her left hand. Dr. Hautayne looked nobly handsome, as he came forward to her side in his military dress; but I think we all had another picture of him in our minds, dusty, and battle-stained, bareheaded, in his shirt-sleeves, as he rode across the fire to save men's lives.
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