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Oh! how sorry I should be to go!" she continued, as she surveyed the place. "I should grieve to quit our first home." "There is no danger I believe: Mr Rowland will be firm on that head." "And there is no danger, I should think," said Margaret, "but that the Greys would find us something better the next day.
Eight and left of them stretched the vast mountain chain of the Himalayas, their wooded slopes and countless peaks and cones presenting a bewildering yet charming picture of variegated colour, sunlight and shadow, as they dwindled away on either hand until all suggestion of local colouring was swallowed up and lost in an enchanting succession of increasingly pure and delicate soft pearly greys, which merged and melted at last into the vague shapeless all-pervading purple-grey of the horizon.
Equally brilliant was the charge of the Inniskillings, in the centre of the brigade. They rode down Donzelot's division, jostled its ranks into a helpless mass, and captured a great number of prisoners. The Scots Greys, too, succouring the hard-pressed Gordons, fell fiercely on Marcognet's division.
There were many less enjoyable ways of realising life than by, say, to be leaving Barcaldine for Aramac in the dark of an early morning on the box seat of a coach behind a spanking team of greys, driven by a master hand with the whip and ribbons.
"Well done! well done!" was the message that came direct from Lord Raglan, on the hills above. "Greys! Gallant Greys!" cried Sir Colin Campbell, galloping up to one of the regiments that had made this charge. "I am sixty-one years old, but if I were young I should be proud to be in your ranks!" "What luck those Heavies have!" shouted another and a bitterly discontented spectator of their prowess.
"Y-e-s!" said Philip, hardly knowing what he said, and hurrying back into the stables to order out the greys. The place to which he was bound was some miles distant, and it was sunset when he returned. As he drove into the main street, two men observed him closely. "That is he! I am almost sure it is," said one. "Oh! then it's all smooth sailing," replied the other.
No promotion for that type of waster while Colonel the Earl of A commanded the Queen's Greys, nor while Captain Daunt commanded the squadron the trooper occasionally disgraced.
The next day he listed in the Scotch Greys, who were then quartered at Ayr, and we never heard more of him, but thought he had been slain in battle, till one of the parish, about three years since, went up to London to lift a legacy from a cousin that died among the Hindoos.
Some of the Greys strode sullenly up and down the camp, casting furious glances at Fanning and those who had voted for the capitulation; others sat motionless, their eyes fixed upon the ground, envying the fate of those who had fallen in the fight. Despair was legibly written on the faces of many who but too well foresaw our fate.
"And all the Greys are her enemies," continued Periwinkle, "especially Mr. Robert Grey. Now I think he is a fine man." "He is," was the warm rejoinder. "I guess they were in love once. And then just because of a pig I think it's dreadful, Joe." The boy had touched on a subject that was a matter of concern with his teacher and one to which he had given much thought.
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