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"Here, Ruth, sing this," he continued, turning round and picking up a sheet of music. "What?" she asked without moving. "'The bugle; I like it." Kemp looked at her expectantly. He said he had not known she sang; but since she did, he was sure her voice was contralto. "Why?" she asked. "Because your face is contralto." She turned from his eyes as if they hurt her, and walked over to Louis's side.
It was worse, in a way, than when they were going to shoot me in the parsonage garden. I'd been so sure I was safe and then to hear that bugle call on your car!" "It is not right for you to run such risks," said Ivan. "I wish you were behind our lines! You are not even a Russian, and yet you have been near to death for us." "Don't you worry about me!" said Fred.
"Go!" he shouted, and as the red-haired girl's heels struck into the hard snow to start the creaking runners, the old gentleman put the bugle to his lips again and blew another fanfare. "We're off!" squealed Bess, as the bobsled slipped over the brow of the descent and started down the slippery slide with a rush.
"If I were you," said Silver, "I should point out to them that you'd a perfect right to play what you liked for an encore. How were you to know the gallery would go off like that? You aren't responsible for them. Hullo, there's that bugle. Things seem to be on the move. We must go." "So long," said Fenn. "Goodbye. Mind you come off against Middlesex." Kennedy stayed for a moment.
Many of the men whose quarters lay near the scene of assembly had been permitted to return to them, with strict orders to be ready to join the ranks should the bugle sound. As soon as Mrs. Conway received the box she set to work in earnest.
It was eight minutes to three when the Arabs made their first rush, and it was just ten minutes past three when the enemy was finally repelled and the bugle sounded "Cease firing." Yet into these pregnant eighteen minutes all that we have described, and a vast deal more, was crowded. Nearly four hundred of our men were killed and wounded, while the enemy, it is believed, lost over two thousand.
A twist of his ankles and he was in his slippers, the bugle sounded, the ragged squad presented arms somewhat untidily, a line of servants bowed themselves low and respectfully before him, and the basha moved slowly across the street.
Again he saw the Colonel, tall and erect, the personification of manhood, indomitable will and courage, seated upon his horse at the head of his regiment, and heard the ringing, clarion notes of the bugle the signal for the charge. Yes, he would make one more supreme effort, and if that failed, well.... His cigar had burned low.
"I am awake, George," the poor child said, with a sob fit to break the little heart that nestled so closely by his own. She was awake, poor soul, and to what? At that moment a bugle from the Place of Arms began sounding clearly, and was taken up through the town; and amidst the drums of the infantry, and the shrill pipes of the Scotch, the whole city awoke. "The Girl I Left Behind Me"
And when I returned, "Wouldst thou have me leave thy country, sir?" thou answeredst: "Blow thy quarrelsome soul to the stars where my farthest bugle cries."
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