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He was hardly to be blamed; his nerves had been terribly shaken by a viper killed in his tent. The young Shaykh Sulayman, accompanied by his cousin Salim, set out in the dark as eclaireurs: they were supposed to lead eight or ten of the best matchlock-men, whereas I doubt whether the whole camp contained that total.
If things really went as described, one must suppose that a sudden panic came on the Goths, and that they took Ecdicius and his handful of troopers as merely éclaireurs of a sally in force, and drew back to the higher ground to resist it.
Through the deep, jagged rift where runs the Potomac, along the rock-bound gorge through which in ages past the torrent burst its way, there creeps a host of tiny shafts of color the skirmishers, the éclaireurs, of the irresistible array of which they form but the foremost line the coming army of the God of Day.
"Madame" sweetly informed me that the first dejeuner was entirely reserved for Messieurs les Eclaireurs, but that, if I would wait till the second dejeuner at noon, I should find ample accommodation. However, I was not inclined to do any such thing.
"I'm like a field officer that has naebody but blind men for scouts and eclaireurs; and what would he ken? But it sticks in my mind that ye'll have made some kind of bauchle; and if I was you I would have a try at her again." "Would ye so, man Alan?" said I. "I would e'en't," says he.
Three or four weeks afterwards, when I again passed through Rennes this second time with my father Messieurs les Eclaireurs were still displaying their immaculate uniforms and highly polished boots amidst all the misery exhibited by the remnants of one of Chanzy's corps d'armee.
In the room, next to mine, Franchetti, the commander of the Eclaireurs of the Seine, is lying a portion of his hip has been blown away by a shell, and the doctor has just told me that he fears that he will not recover, as the wound is too high up for an operation.
"I'm like a field officer that has naebody but blind men for scouts and éclaireurs; and what would he ken? But it sticks in my mind that ye'll have made some kind of bauchle; and if I was you, I would have a try at her again." "Would ye so, man Alan?" said I. "I would e'en't," says he.
They belonged, I found, to a free corps called the "Eclaireurs d'Ille-et-Vilaine," and their principal occupations were to mess together copiously and then stroll about the town, ogling all the good-looking girls they met. The corps never went to the front.
I asked, "you that's so clever at the trade?" "Ye see, David, I wasnae here," said he. "I'm like a field officer that has naebody but blind men for scouts and éclaireurs; and what would he ken? But it sticks in my mind that ye'll have made some kind of bauchle; and if I was you, I would have a try at her again." "Would ye so, man Alan?" said I. "I would e'en't," says he.
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