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The news held the magic thrill of an Alsace restored to France. ... It was long afterwards that Paris heard strange and evil rumours of reverses down there, of a regiment which flung down its rifles and fled under a tempest of shells, of officers shot by their own guns, of a general cashiered for grievous errors. From Liege there came more news.
Many years before, when only a captain himself, he had been a member of a court-martial which cashiered a lieutenant of the name of Dutton, for grievous misconduct, while in command of a cutter; the fruits of the bottle.
How is it possible to carry a gentleman before a parcel of dreadful judges, at the same place where an officer of the same rank has been just now cashiered, for a trifling neglect of his duty; for, I suppose, speaking to his next neighbour, in a manoeuvre for going into a house to speak to a pretty girl, when the army is on its march, and a thousand other things?
And I know that certain officers of the artillery, or military, three of them, I believe, thought proper on military grounds, and not upon religious scruples, to refuse to fire, according to the usual order of their commandant for such refusal they were brought to a court-martial, and sentenced to be cashiered, not because they would not form a part of any religious procession to which they were hostile not because they would not conform to the rites of the natives, and worship any relic that was honoured by them; but for this plain and intelligible reason, that they had taken upon themselves to refuse obedience to the orders of the commander-in-chief on the spot.
She knew, now knew it as certainly as though Garth had answered her that he was unable to deny it. Still, she would brace herself to hear it to endure the ultimate anguish of words. "Is it true?" she questioned him. "Is it true that you were cashiered for cowardice?" At last he spoke. "Yes," he said. "It is true."
Whether he had enlisted as a private, and had been bought-off by his friends; whether he had borne the rank of an officer, and had sold his commission, or had been cashiered, or had deserted, or had been drummed-out of his regiment, no one pretended to say.
By this time Lestock had accused Matthews, and all the captains of his division who misbehaved on the day of battle. The court-martial was constituted, and proceeded to trial. Several commanders of ships were cashiered; vice-admiral Lestock was honourably acquitted, and admiral Matthews rendered incapable of serving for the future in his majesty's navy.
"Elisabeth, was it true? Was it all true?" In an instant Elisabeth's hand closed round hers. "My dear, you must try and face it. And" her voice shook a little "you must try and forgive me for telling you. But I couldn't let you marry Garth Trent in ignorance, could I?" "Then it is true? Garth was court-martialled and and cashiered?" Sara sank back against her pillows.
She paused, and with a sudden instinctive movement Sara grasped Selwyn's arm, while the sharp sibilance of her quick-drawn breath cut across the momentary silence. "No," Elisabeth repeated. "Maurice ought never to have been cashiered. He was absolutely innocent of the charge against him. The real offender was Geoffrey . . . my husband.
He heard that Captain March had been cashiered for something or other so dreadful it couldn't be spoken of. The story's going the rounds of London now. I'm not sure Gerald didn't get it from your brother-in-law the night he asked Major Vandyke to dine at the Rag. How strange Captain March should have been the one to save them!" "He was not cashiered," I passionately protested.
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