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Updated: June 7, 2025
You, Steele, beg General Bosquet to lend me all the men he can spare." Pennefather had his hands full by the time Lord Raglan arrived. With a paltry 3,000 odd men he was confronting 25,000; but, happily, the morning was so dark and the brushwood so thick that his men were hardly conscious that they were thus outnumbered.
The girls used to go to the bosquet, which adjoined the gardens of the palace, collect flowers, and make a garland, which they hung on a rope stretched across the court-yard of the palace.
Alas! that their happiness should be so short; for those few moments of bliss, stolen from a waste of tears, were all that were allowed them. Inexorable fate still dogged their footsteps. Amidst the bosquet stood a listener to their converse a little girl with high shoulders and sharp features, on which diabolical malice was stamped.
He made his way into the garden and hobbled successfully along one of the alleys, but in the midst of his progress was pulled up by a spasm of pain which forced him to stop and call for help. In an instant Euphemia came tripping along the path and offered him her arm with the frankest solicitude. "Not to the house," he said, taking it; "further on, to the bosquet."
As he clasped his arms round Euphrosyne, and pressed her so closely that she could scarcely breathe, heaping his cloak upon her head, she heard and felt him murmuring to himself "To Le Bosquet! No, indeed! anywhere but there! Once at home she once safe and then " Euphrosyne would have been glad to see a little of what appeared to know something of what to expect.
A light step on the grass. A shock passed through him. He made a movement, then checked it. Eugénie paused at some distance from him. In this autumnal moment of the year, and on week-days, scarcely any passing visitor disturbs the quiet of the Bosquet d'Apollon.
It may render my narrative of the final assault more readily comprehensible if I begin by saying that, the Malakoff being now considered the key of the Russian position, it was determined that all other attacks should be considered subsidiary to that which was to be directed against it. General Bosquet had command of all the French troops employed on the right of the English attack.
"We had better go back," said Euphrosyne. "Let us go back to Le Bosquet." "Forward! Forward!" cried Monsieur Revel, like one frantic. "Why do you stand still, you rascal? I will drive myself if you do not push on. Drive on drive like the devil like what you all are," he added, in a lower tone. "Surely we had better go back to Le Bosquet."
At last I decided that I would walk down by the river side until I was opposite to the bosquet, which adjoined the garden of the palace, and there wait till it was low water, when I knew that the river could be forded, as I had often seen others do so.
Bosquet had now come up with his brigade, and D'Autemarre, released by Gortschakoff's retreat, had followed with a second. There were thus some seven or eight thousand French available. Still Canrobert was disinclined to move. He was now with Lord Raglan on the Ridge, with his arm in a sling, for he had just been struck by a shrapnel-shell.
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