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Updated: May 10, 2025
A flash of heroism was galvanizing the impressionable Bohemian. Now that everybody was going to the war, he was wishing to do the same thing. He was not afraid of death; the only thing that was disturbing him was the military service, the uniform, the mechanical obedience to bugle-call, the blind subservience to the chiefs.
Then came pealing through the air a bugle-call that froze my blood "IT IS I, SOLDIER COME!" I turned; Cathy was flying down through the massed people; she cleared the parapet at a bound, and sped towards that riderless horse, who staggered forward towards the remembered sound; but his strength failed, and he fell at her feet, she lavishing kisses upon him and sobbing, the house rising with one impulse, and white with horror!
"Theer!" said Blob, pointing. Far away on the rim of the world stood a tiny horseman. What was he, that little speck of blackness on the horse without legs? ploughboy or dragoon? alone or the leader of a troop? "Wave!" cried the Parson at his elbow. Sobbing and frantic, the lad fluttered his handkerchief. As though in answer a bugle-call rang echoing down to them.
Great credit is due to Brigadier-General H. S. Hawkins, who, placing himself between his regiments, urged them on by voice and bugle-call to the attack so brilliantly executed.
The next day, at half-past five in the morning, the bugle-call rang through the barrack-yard at Souvigny. Jean mounted his horse, and took his place with his division. By the end of May all the recruits in the army are sufficiently instructed to be capable of sharing in the general evolutions. Almost every day manoeuvres of the mounted artillery are executed on the parade-ground.
The bugle-call rang softly down the valley, echoed away tenderly in the hills, and was lost in the distance. Roused by the clear call, Elise rose from watching beside Valmond's couch, and turned towards the door of the tent. The spring of a perfect joy at his safety had been followed by an aching in all her body and a trouble at her heart.
The sunshine covered them both. The sea wind was fresh in their faces. While the many voices of Naples came up to them confused, strident, continuous, with sometimes a bugle-call, sometimes a clang of hammers, or quick pulse of stringed instruments, or jangle of church-bells, or long-drawn bellow of a steamship clearing for sea, detaching itself from the universal chorus.
Judy recalled, as of long ago, the warning bugle-call of an up-and-under bird; Tim faintly remembered having overheard some swallows "discussing" together; Uncle Felix saw a robin perched against a sky of pearly grey at the end of an interminable corridor that stretched across whole centuries.... Then, close beside the three of them, a bumble-bee, a golden fly, and a company of summer gnats went by booming, trumpeting, singing like a tiny carillon of bells respectively.
Ship after ship passed on, each with its bugle-call to quarters, each with its muster of all hands to meet the unknown emergency the menace on a hostile coast of a faint white light on the port beam but not one firing a shot or shell; there was nothing to fire at.
There they go at the right. Are the packages all right?" Hayne, with stunned faculties, thinking only of the charge he longs to make, not of the one he has to keep, replies he knows not what. There is a ringing bugle-call far off among the rocks to the westward; a rousing cheer; a rattling volley. Rayner springs off to his men on the hill-side.
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