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"Van Huysman!" exclaimed the Professor. "That Yankee charlatan, confound him! I shouldn't wonder if he had the impudence to take part in the discussion afterwards." "Then," laughed Nitocris, "you must take care to have all your heavy guns ready for action. But, of course, Dad, you won't let your well, your scientific feelings get mixed up with social matters, will you?
Until the war broke out, he had supposed they did control it; his boyhood had been clouded and enervated by that belief. The Prussians had believed it, too, apparently. But the event had shown that there were a great many people left who cared about something else. The intervals of the distant artillery fire grew shorter, as if the big guns were tuning up, choking to get something out.
During the whole of this day, the enemy kept up an almost incessant fire, both with great guns and small arms, and we had some few men wounded. A soldier of the light company, named Murphy, stood upon the bank, exposing himself, and drawing upon us the fire from the fort.
At the same moment a couple of rustlers moved into view, their guns held so as to cover him. He sat motionless until they came up, one on either side, when he was seen to be conversing earnestly with them. "They have made him prisoner," remarked Hawkridge, "just as I was sure they would." "Will they do him harm?" asked Mrs.
And now the horizon all round from north, west, and south showed dark with smoke as the Japanese cruisers began to close in from those points upon the Russians. It was the Tsarevich which at length opened the ball, by bringing the 12-inch guns in her fore-turret to bear upon the Mikasa.
Several men now came to Dermot and led him towards the gallows which he had seen erected. At the same time an attempt was made to fire the guns placed on the height, but neither of them went off. "The powder is bad," Dermot thought to himself; "will it all be like that?" It was a curious thought at such a moment. He had nerved his heart for the worst.
"We'll keep away and give her the first broadside," cried the captain. "You'd better hoist your colours first," observed Bramble, quietly. "Hoist the colours, Mr Stubbs! Port the helm! Look out, my men! Point the guns to the object! Fire!"
"And the smoke on the horizon?" "The smoke from the guns. They are fighting beyond Saarbrück yes, beyond Pfalzburg and Wörth; they are fighting beyond the Lauter." "Wissembourg?" "I think so. They are nearer now. Monsieur de Nesville, the battle has gone against the French." "How do you know?" demanded the marquis, harshly. "I have seen battles. One need only listen and look at the army yonder.
The General, however, determined to get back, and scratch teams of such mules, riding-horses, and oxen as had lived through the day being harnessed to the guns, the dispirited and exhausted survivors of the force managed to ford the Ingogo, now swollen by rain which had fallen in the afternoon, poor Lieutenant Wilkinson, the Adjutant of the 60th, losing his life in the operation, and to struggle through the dense darkness back to camp.
Rosedale's penetrating beyond the outer limbo of the Van Osburgh crushes. Jack gave up the contest with a laughing "You'll see," and, sticking manfully to his guns, showed himself with Rosedale at the fashionable restaurants, in company with the personally vivid if socially obscure ladies who are available for such purposes.
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