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Continuing their forward movement into Hungary, the Servians inflicted further losses on the Austrians near Noviapazow, while the Montenegrins reported a victory in the mountain slopes over their border. On October 1 it was reported that the Servians had again repulsed an Austrian attempt at invasion and had driven the Austrians back across the Drina with loss.
The Porte now directed an invasion of Servia by a mingled force of forty thousand Turks and Bosniaks; but the Moslem army was totally overthrown near Shabatz, Aug. 8, 1806, by seven thousand foot and two thousand horse under Kara George, and driven across the Drina with the loss of their commander and many other chiefs.
Selwyn's arm around her relaxed, then tightened. "Why do you ask, dear?" he said very quietly. "Because I was just wondering whether God arranged that, too." Selwyn looked at her a moment. "Yes," he said grimly; "nothing happens by chance." "Then, when God arranges such things, He does not always consider our happiness." "He gives us our chance, Drina." "Oh! Did you have a chance?
A few hours travelling from Sokol brought Mr Paton to Liuhovia on the Drina, the precipitous banks of which, covered with wood, present numerous points of picturesque beauty; but at a short distance above this town, which is the quarantine station on the road between Belgrade and Seraievo it ceases to form the boundary of Servia and Bosnia, being entirely within the latter frontier.
His instrument, the favourite one of Servia, is styled a goosely, being a testudo-formed viol; no doubt a relic of the antique, for the Servian monarchy derived all its arts from the Greeks of the Lower Empire. But the musical entertainment, in spite of the magnum of wine, and the jovial challenges of our fellow traveller from the Drina, threw me into a species of melancholy.
And were they not delighted? And you've come to stay, haven't you? There, I won't begin to urge you. . . . Look, Gerald look, Boots and Drina, too only look at those beautiful big plump trout in Captain Selwyn's creel!" "Oh, I say!" exclaimed Gerald, "you didn't take those in that little brook did you, Philip? Well, wouldn't that snare you! I'm coming down here after luncheon; I sure am."
"Anyway, they can brew tea there if they are lonely," added Drina, ushering Selwyn into the big sunny nursery, where he stood, irresolute, looking about him, aware that he was conniving at open mutiny. From somewhere on the floor above persistent hammering and muffled appeals satisfied him as to the location and indignation of the schoolroom prisoners. "You ought to let them out," he said.
When there was no more breath left in the children, and when the dogs lay about, grinning and lolling, Drina approached him, bland and dishevelled. "That circus," she explained, "was for your entertainment. Now will you please do something for ours?" "Certainly," said Selwyn, looking about him vaguely; "shall we er build blocks, or shall I read to you er out of that big picture-book "
"Where does the boom of worthless acreage and paper cities land investors when it explodes?" Gerald had flushed up at the turn in the conversation; and Selwyn steered Lansing into other and safer channels until Gerald went away to find a rod. And, as Drina had finished her French lesson, she and Lansing presently departed, brandishing fishing-rods adorned with the gaudiest of flies.
"You could not understand, dear. Even your mother cannot quite understand. So we won't ever speak of it again, Drina." The child balanced a bonbon between thumb and forefinger, considering it very gravely. "I know something that mother does not," she said. And as he betrayed no curiosity: "Eileen is in love. I heard her say so." He straightened up sharply, turning to look at her.
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