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It was all very mysterious, but Elvira must be much altered indeed if her narrative did not come out in an utterly complicated and detached manner. She was altered certainly, for she clung most affectionately to Mother Carey and Barbara, when they took her upstairs.
Had she waited to see that, she would have seen him, in lurching over to prevent his sword from striking the ground, lose his balance on a detached paving-stone, and fall heavily on his right arm. "Peste!" he hissed, as he slowly scrambled to his feet. "I have broken my arm!"
It was also desirable not to mar the harmony and beauty of the present structure, which, as a specimen of architecture, is so universally admired. Keeping these objects in view, I concluded to make the addition by wings, detached from the present building, yet connected with it by corridors.
But he is detached in a way. He hates it. It has aged him terribly. But just what it means to him I can't know. Christmas Day, 1915 Well, here I am, alone, on my second war Christmas! All my efforts to get a permis de sortir failed. Ten days after I wrote you last, there was a rumor that all foreigners were to be expelled from the zone of military operations.
I am satisfied the enemy are very shaky, and are only kept up to the mark by the greatest exertions on the part of their officers, and by keeping them intrenched in every position they take. Up to this time there is no indication of any portion of Lee's army being detached for the defence of Richmond. U. S. GRANT, Lieut.-General.
There were at that time dispersed over Europe bodies of mercenary troops, called Brabançons, composed of fugitives from different nations, men who were detached from any country, and who, by making war a perpetual trade, and passing from service to service, had acquired an experience and military knowledge uncommon in those days.
They spoke very apologetically in low tones, refusing to sit down, but remaining for a considerable time standing up, although the only thing they had to say was, "Is there anything we can do?" and there was nothing they could do. Feeling oddly detached from it all, Terence remembered how Helen had said that whenever anything happened to you this was how people behaved.
About an hundred soldiers, in one firm rank, stood at the opening of the pass, firing on the now vacillating steadiness of the enemy. Thaddeus checked his horse. Five hundred had been detached to this post; how few remained! Could he hope that Sobieski had escaped so desperate a rencontre?
Artillery-men were pushing the piece; it was in firing trim; the fore-carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at the wheels; others followed with the caisson. They could see the smoke of the burning lint-stock. "Fire!" shouted Enjolras.
"Well, I must be gittin'!" at last he declares; then suddenly he remembers that he has nothing to do at home everything is done to a finish and a queer, detached feeling comes over him. He is no longer needed anywhere. Somebody is asking him to come in for a drink, and he goes! Why shouldn't he have a drink or anything else that he wants, he asks himself. He has worked hard. He'll take two.
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