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We had been now about two months in Givet, when a Steel's List was sent to a lieutenant, who was confined there. The lieutenant came up to O'Brien, and asked him his Christian name. "Terence, to be sure," replied O'Brien. "Then," answered the lieutenant, "I may congratulate you on your promotion, for here you are upon the list of August."
Promptly at midnight Hal, greatly refreshed by a sound sleep and hearty meal, once more entered the general's quarters and came to attention. "The answer you are to carry back is simply: 'I shall act upon your plan," said General Givet. "Good luck to you on your journey, and I have only one command: Make all possible haste." Hal saluted and set out on his return, journey to Liège.
The field was strewn with dead, but over these the Belgian troops pushed on, pressing their advantage to the utmost. Finally General Givet called a halt. The Germans were still retreating, but the Belgian commander did not feel that he could afford to pursue them farther.
Having waited the usual hour before the governor's house, to answer to our muster-roll, and to be stared at, we were dismissed; and in a few minutes, found ourselves shut up in one of the strongest fortresses in France. O'Brien receives his commission as lieutenant, and then we take French leave of Givet.
A short distance off, rather to the left, as you look from the house, is a very pretty little temple the Temple of Love with a front of columns of red Givet marble brought from the chateau of Richelieu, and a clear stream bursting from the rocks beneath it.
Peter, we must shift our quarters to-night, for I have been to every cabaret in the village, and I cannot go there any more without suspicion, although I am a gendarme." We remained there till the evening, and then set off, still returning toward Givet.
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Dumouriez, at the head of the army of Belgium, forty thousand strong, advanced from Valenciennes upon Mons, supported on the right by the army of the Ardennes, amounting to about sixteen thousand men, under general Valence, who marched from Givet upon Namur; and on his left, by the army of the north, eighteen thousand strong, under general Labourdonnaie, who advanced from Lille upon Tournai.
On the next roll call he shall be marked: 'Absent but accounted for. He is with the heroes!" Hal and Chester walked slowly along the road. It was just beginning to grow light and the lads were tired out. All night they had been on their journey toward Louvain, carrying a second communication to General Givet from the Belgian commander at Liège.
"When I was returning from Holland along with the Empress Maria Louisa we stopped to rest at Givet. During the night a violent storm of wind and rain came on, which swelled the Meuse so much that the bridge of boats over it was carried away. I was very anxious to depart, and ordered all the boatmen in the place to be assembled that I might be enabled to cross the river.
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