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On the end of the first rank was the boy Basil, file-leader of his squad, swinging proudly, his handsome face serious and fixed, his eyes turning to right nor left seeing not his mother, proud, white, tearless; nor Crittenden, with a lump of love in his throat; nor even little Phyllis her pride in her boy-soldier swept suddenly out of her aching heart, her eyes brimming, and her handkerchief at her mouth to keep bravely back the sob that surged at her lips.
I directed the file-leader to run to my tent and bring the letter to me. He immediately set off, and the rest, obeying literally the directions which I had just been giving them, all followed, running behind him in a line like a troop of savages, so that I had the whole squad of twenty men running in a body off the field to fetch a letter!"
'Marching, said he, 'as you ordered me to do. 'It was not you alone that I ordered to march, said I, 'but all. So I sent him back to his place, and then gave the command again. Upon this they all advanced promiscuously and in disorder toward me, each one acting for himself, without regard to the others, and leaving the file-leader, who ought to have been at the head, altogether behind.
Of extravagant metaphor, the result of this same making sound the file-leader of sense, a single example from "Heraclius" shall suffice: "La vapeur de mon sang ira grossir la foudre Que Dieu tient deja prete a le reduire en poudre."
Sir, I was six years first private gentleman of the company, and three years lance speisade; disdaining to receive a halberd, as unbecoming my birth. "And yet, if I understand you, Captain Dalgetty, I think that rank corresponds with your foreign title of ritt-master " "The same grade preceesely," answered Dalgetty; "ritt-master signifying literally file-leader."
'You must regulate your proceeding, said I, 'by the action of the file-leader; when he advances, you must advance, following him in a line, and governing your movements in all respects by his. "Just at this moment," continued the officer, "a man came to me for a letter which was to go to Persia, and which I had left in my tent.
"Every soldier learns command from obedience," he said. "And if I should send a detail from the ranks on some special duty, the file-leader would know how to command it, although he had never given an order in his life. You are each, with all your spiritual forces, detached on special duty. You are veteran soldiers of the Cross and under marching orders!"
We said we were surprised at seeing our old friend, the "geographical President," again; but we soon found that he reappeared only as the file-leader of a ragged regiment of kindred scarecrows, nay, with others so battered and bedraggled, that they were scarce fit to be the camp-followers of the soldiery with whom Falstaff refused to march through Coventry. The sarcasms which Mr.
His speech was literary, emphasizing every syllable; he would now say that he had had a suf-fi-ci-en-cy, and that people had ma-ni-fest-ed much love to-ward him. Of the file-leader in the second company of His Majesty's Grenadiers there was nothing left but the height and the uncouth feet and paws. His sentiments were mild and kind.
No one spoke, and Susquesus had never found us so close on his heels as we kept ourselves all that morning. The foot of the file-leader was scarcely out of its place, ere that of his successor covered the same spot! The trail led us quite close to the hut, which we reached as near as might be to noon.
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