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He tries to remember what it was that had happened this afternoon he sees the active, restless figure of the Englishman dancing queerly up and down as it had seemed to dance just before he, Gerald, fell, and he feels again the horrible wish to laugh which had seized him when that dancing figure had said something about Beaucourt having spoken "very nicely " "Curse Beaucourt!
"I have a question to ask, my dear." "Charmed, I am sure, to answer it if I can." "Am I right in supposing that Lord Howel Beaucourt is about half your age?" "Yes, dear; my future husband is as nearly as possible half as old as I am." Mrs. Newsham's uneasy virtue shuddered. "What a profanation of marriage!" she exclaimed. "Nothing of the sort," her friend pronounced positively.
Beaucourt at once offered to make th e inquiries which might satisfy his wife that she had not been mistaken. Readily accepting his proposal, she asked at the same time for a few minutes of delay. "I want to say to you," she explained, "what I had in my mind to say to Mrs. Evelin. Do you object to tell me why she refused to marry you? I couldn't have done it in her place."
On the right, or east, the advance began from the western end of Regina Trench from the British position about 700 yards to the north of Stuff Redoubt. From this point a German trench known as the Hansa line ran northwestward to the Ancre, directly opposite the village of Beaucourt. On the extreme right, north of Stuff Redoubt, to reach that trench meant an advance of only a score or so of yards.
Du Fresne de Beaucourt, Hist. de Charles VII, t. iv. p. 171, note 2. Of the miniatures at Chantilly, the whole series of which forms a most tender and rare tribute to wife and friend, only brief mention can here be made of those concerning Agnes.
Good God! how you look at me! I have hurt your feelings I have been a greater fool than ever I am more ashamed of myself than words can say!" Beaucourt stopped him there, gently and firmly. "You have made a very natural mistake," he said. "There was a young lady. She has refused me absolutely refused me. There is no more love in my life. It's a dark life and an empty life for the rest of my days.
Any one motoring or going by rail from Angouleme to Perigueux should halt half-way at La Roche Beaucourt, where the rock l'Argentine contains a nest of cave-dwellings, with silos in the floors and cupboards in the walls.
There in several places, as at La Boisselle and on the Beaucourt spur, our men have built up the parapet of our old front line by thousands of sandbags till it is a hill-top or cairn from which they could see beyond.
Here the troops of the Royal Naval Division suffered badly, but they continued to advance under the withering fire, winning the first and second line trenches, and then, as supports came up on the right, braving the machine-gun fire, they pushed on across the dip and sunken road up the slope toward Beaucourt.
And one of the men whom all England was wild about is a New Zealander from Wellington, twenty-seven years old, now an acting lieutenant-colonel, who was described by an eye-witness of the Ancre fighting as "a flying figure in bandages plunging over Germans to Beaucourt." He is B. C. Freyberg, a born soldier and great athlete.
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