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For it was at Vilna that the last thread of discipline was broken, and every man did as he wished." "They did not come to Kowno?" asked Mathilde, who had a clear mind, and that grasp of a situation which more often falls to the lot of the duller sex. "They did not come to Kowno. They would turn south at Vilna. It was as well.
The roads, in summer almost impassable mere ruts across the plain are for the time ignored, and the traveller strikes a bee-line from place to place across a level of frozen snow. Louis d'Arragon had worked out a route across the plain, as he had been taught to shape a course across a chart. "How did you return from Kowno?" he asked Barlasch. "Name of my own nose," replied that traveller.
Rapp himself had told D'Arragon that officers had been despatched to Kowno to form a base a sort of rock in the midst of a torrent to divert the currents. There had then been a talk of Tilsit, and diverting the stream, or part of it towards Macdonald in the north.
The most characteristic exponent of this reforming movement was Moses Lob Lilienblum, a native of the Government of Kowno.
"Where is the patron?" he asked, turning to bolt the door again. "He is out, in the town," answered Desiree, in a strained voice. "Where are you from?" "From Kowno." Barlasch looked from one face to the other. His own was burnt red, and the light of the lamp hanging over his head gleamed on the icicles suspended to his eyebrows and ragged whiskers.
If the originator of the term frontier demonstrations would take the trouble to study the map, he would not be able to cherish the delusion that his intelligent readers could believe that battles fought near Kowno, Oszmiana, Upita, Poniewiez, Lida, Ihumen, Dubno, Pinsk, Mscislaw, etc., were really frontier demonstrations!
He asked me if I was Russki I! Then he wanted to hold my hand. And he went to sleep. He will wake among the angels that parishioner." Not only had no one heard of Charles Darragon, but few knew the name of the commander to whose staff he had been attached in Moscow. There was nothing for it but to go on towards Kowno, where it was understood temporary head-quarters had been established.
The long and straight furrow which we had traced with so much difficulty from Kowno, across sands and ashes, would it not close behind us, like that of a vessel on an immense ocean! A few peasants, badly armed, might easily efface all traces of it. In fact they were about to carry off, in the rear of the army, our wounded and our marauders. Five hundred stragglers soon fell into their hands.
He put his horse to the extremity of his speed; he appeared on fire to come singly in contact with the enemy. He rode more than a league in the same direction, surrounded throughout by the same solitude; upon which he found it necessary to return in the vicinity of the bridges, whence he re-descended the river with his guard towards Kowno. Some thought they heard the distant report of cannon.
On the 14th, at daybreak, the Russians commenced their attack. One of their columns made a hasty advance from the Wilna road, while another crossed the Niemen on the ice above the town, landed on the Prussian territory, and, proud of being the first to cross its frontier, marched to the bridge of Kowno, to close that outlet upon Ney, and completely cut off his retreat.
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