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'A plot! he replied hastily, 'let me alone for that; trust me for that! and Lawrence desisted from useless expostulation. Poor old Elphinstone had scented treachery; but the Envoy had closed his mouth with the impatient words: 'I understand these things better than you! As he rode out, he admitted the danger of the enterprise, but argued that if it succeeded it was worth all risks.
He has got Elphinstone to make a list of the civil servants with their characters. The King took the sacrament yesterday with the Royal Family, and afterwards received the bishops and the judges. He made long speeches to both. Thirty minutes to the first, and twenty to the second. Polignac seems quite firm, although certain he shall be in a minority of 1 to 2 or 3.
So, when I learnt that a man named Carter had been arrested on the charge of murdering Crone, I came to Berwick, and went to the court to hear what was said when Carter was put before the magistrates. I got a quiet seat in the court and maybe you didn't see me." "I did!" I exclaimed. "I remember you perfectly, Mr. Elphinstone." "Aye!" he said with an amused smile.
From the purely military point of view he was probably right; the Duke of Wellington shared his opinion when he said in the House of Lords: 'After the first few days, particularly after the negotiations at Cabul had commenced, it became hopeless for General Elphinstone to maintain his position. Shelton's situation was unquestionably a very uncomfortable one, for Elphinstone, broken as he was, yet allowed his second in command no freedom of action, and was testily pertinacious of his prerogative of command.
The professor turned to the pilot-house, through one of the windows of which the baronet was seen looking out, with his hands on the controlling levers, waiting the conclusion of the conference between his friend and the savage. "Quick, Elphinstone!" he exclaimed, "make for the village at once, but do not stop there.
A couple of days were spent at Tezeen among the melancholy relics of the January slaughter, whence most of the party were carried several miles further into the southern mountains to the village of Zandeh, while General Elphinstone, whose end was fast approaching, remained in the Tezeen valley with Pottinger, Mackenzie, Eyre, and one or two others.
Sir Howard Elphinstone was then offered the command, and would also probably have retired, but Colonel Gordon offered to go for him, and refused any money on account of the exchange, though usually £700 or £800 was paid for an exchange of this kind. Yet Gordon was so poor that he had actually to borrow the money to pay for his passage when he went from India to China a few months before this!
And finally, amid cheers from the rest of the party, Sir Reginald Elphinstone ran the Union Jack up to the staff head and knotted the halliards so that it would remain there, thus formally claiming for the British nation the honour of actual discovery.
"It was lovely, Professor; the most beautiful sight I have ever beheld," exclaimed Lady Elphinstone, as she presently turned away from the ice-cold glass of the scuttle. "What did you think of it, dear?" to Feodorovna. "I can only say, with you, dear Lady Elphinstone, that it was the most beautiful sight I have ever beheld," answered Feodorovna.
"I think so too," answered Barbicane; "that is why I propose to quadruple that length, and to construct a cannon 900 feet long." The general and the major made some objections, but, nevertheless, this proposition, strongly supported by the secretary, was definitely adopted. "Now," said Elphinstone, "what thickness must we give its sides?" "A thickness of six feet," answered Barbicane.
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