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Fred Thompson's, until we came to the Rally Hill turnpike it being then nearly dark we heard some skirmishing, but, exhausted as we were, we went into bivouac. The Yankees, it seems to me, might have captured the whole of us. But that is a matter of history. But I desire to state that no blunder was made by either Generals Cheatham or Stewart, neither of whom ever failed to come to time.
We blunder along without using our heads. But, I guess I had better not boast until after I have gotten back safely from Forsythe," he laughed. "I may need some good advice myself before that is accomplished." The pony with ears laid back had settled to a long, loping gallop, covering mile after mile without seeming to feel the strain in the least.
He demanded that Mr. Hodder be definite. If he had any charges to make, let him make them here and now. The consternation, the horror which succeeded such a stupid and unexpected tactical blunder on the part of the usually astute Mr. Ferguson were felt rather than visually discerned. The atmosphere might have been described as panicky.
So passes away a fortnight. "Mr. Grandon," he says, honestly, "I seldom make a decided blunder about these matters, but I can't get down to the very soul of this. There is a little miss somewhere. I said I could tell you in a month, but I am afraid I shall have to ask a further fortnight's grace. I never was so puzzled in my life.
Yet the father of this boy who has cost America millions in court and detention expenses was one of the greatest business generals of the Keystone state. He could plat great coal empires and command armies of men, but he seems to have been pitifully ignorant of the fact that the barrel shakes. It is the educated, the rich and the worldly wise who blunder most in the training of their children.
"Well, then, at the risk of making a sad blunder, I will just say, that 'my nephew Tom' is any thing but a prepossessing youth; and that I hope all eyes regard him exactly as he appears to a sailor of fifty-five."
Sergia's hand on his arm stayed him. He remained open-mouthed, staring at his blunder. But the Frenchman had not perceived it. He accepted the correction with a cordial nod. "Of course infinite patience. And then a thing like that!" he lifted his hand toward it slowly. It was a kind of courteous salute the obeisance due to royalty. Uncle William watched it a little grudgingly.
But enthusiasm rose to the highest point at the sight of the veterans in every kind of faded uniform, Grenadiers of the Guard, Chasseurs, Dragoons of the Empress, Red Lancers, Mamelukes, Poles, and, above all, the Old Guard. "Vive la Vieille Garde!" shouted the multitude; "Vive les Polonais! Vive l'empereur!" The funeral was a political blunder. It stirred up the embers of Napoleonism.
He laughed softly to himself as the picture grew in his mind, and he saw Ransom come blundering in through the palms, mopping his red face and chattering inane things to little Miss Meesen. Ransom was always blundering. This time his blunder saved Philip.
He's too old a fox for that. I'm telling you, sir, what Johnson told me. 'He looked close down at the shawls, as if he were short-sighted, though he could see as far as any man. "I beg your pardon, ladies," said he, "you're right. I am quite wrong. What a stupid blunder to make! And yet they did deceive me. Here, Johnson, take these shawls away. How could you be so stupid?
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