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Jerry spied her instantly, and came towards her. She went quickly to meet him. "For goodness' sake," she whispered urgently, "help me to get away from that man!" "Of course," said Jerry, promptly leading her away in the opposite direction till the crowd swallowed them. "Who the dickens is he?" She looked at him with a small, piteous smile. "His name is Piet Cradock," she said.
It had the honour of being specially chosen by Sir John Moore for its steadiness and good conduct. I was not with it, but was one of Brigadier-general Fane's aides-de-camp. It was while carrying a message to him that my horse was killed and I myself stunned by being thrown onto a heap of stones." Sir John Cradock nodded, and then opened Romana's despatch. He raised his eyebrows slightly.
Having nothing else to do until after darkness fell, Terence, after finishing his round, sat down and added an account of the fight to the report he had written up at their last halting-place. This was written in duplicate, one copy being intended for General Cradock, and the other for the Portuguese authorities at Oporto.
Here are my despatches to the general, in which I have done full justice to your bravery and your conduct. Here is also a note to the officer commanding at Coimbra. I have spoken to him about your conduct, and have asked him to allow you to continue with the Portuguese until an order is received from Sir John Cradock.
Day after day Guy drove on along the uncertain roads, past queer outlying towns of white wooden houses Cradock, and Middelburg, and Colesberg, and others till they crossed at last the boundary of Orange River into the Free State, and halted for a while in the main street of Philippolis. It was a dreary place; Guy began now to see the other side of South Africa.
"Sir Cradock called his lady, And bade her to come near: 'Come win this mantle, lady, And do me credit here: "'Come win this mantle, lady, For now it shall be thine, If thou hast never done amiss, Since first I made thee mine. "The lady, gently blushing, With modest grace came on; And now to try the wondrous charm Courageously is gone.
"Let me see," said Walter; "there are Jones and Harpour brutes certainly both of them; and Cradock well, he's rather a bargee, but he's not altogether bad; and Anthony, and Franklin, who are both far jollier than they used to be; indeed I like old Franklin very much; so with you and Eden we shall get on famously." The first few days of term passed very pleasantly.
The policy of the gallows was unscrupulously brought into practice, and the barbarous method of compelling the Dutch residents to attend the execution of their fellow-Dutch was enforced. At Burghersdorp, Cradock, Middelburg, and various other places several rebels were executed.
That war took place for the most part in the districts of Albany and Somerset, so that we inhabitants of Cradock, on the whole, suffered little. Therefore, with the natural optimism and carelessness of danger of dwellers in wild places, we began to think ourselves fairly safe from attack. Indeed, so we should have been, had it not been for a foolish action on the part of Monsieur Leblanc.
"When she had ta'en the mantle, And put it on her back, About the hem it seemed To wrinkle and to crack. "'Lie still, she cried, 'O mantle! And shame me not for naught; I'll freely own whate'er amiss Or blameful I have wrought. "'Once I kissed Sir Cradock Beneath the greenwood tree; Once I kissed Sir Cradock's mouth, Before he married me.
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