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Fred laughed, and owned it, but asked if she were not really the governess? 'A governess, said Albinia, 'but not ours, and an explanation followed, during which Sophy blushed violently, and held up her head as if she had an iron bar in her neck. 'A pity, said the Lancer, when he had heard who she was, and under his moustache he murmured to Albinia, 'She is rather in Emily's style.
In any Polish dictionary they would have found the word defined as meaning "lancer," and the Uhlans in the Austrian army can hardly be described as modern Tartar militia. Both Dictionaries give SLAW, and neither explains it rightly. The word does not properly belong in an English dictionary, unless as an American provincialism of very narrow range.
"'Where for mercy's sake did you find that creature? said Fanny, surveying Marius through her glass. "'Oh, him, eh? Why he is a handsome horse, if in condition a charger your know that's his style. "'Indeed, lisped a young lancer, 'I should be devilish sorry to charge or be charged with him. And here they all chuckled at this puppy's silly joke, and I drew up to repress further liberties.
Since morning I had kept up a perpetual smile for all, and then the good village priest who had married us had thought it his duty, in a very neat sermon so far as the rest of it went, to compare me to Saint Joseph, and that sort of thing is annoying when one is Captain in a lancer regiment.
Theodora was seated between the general and her husband, and her eye was the first that caught the figure of the distant but descending stranger. "What is that?" she asked. The general, immediately using his telescope, after a moment's examination, said: "A lancer of the royal guard." All eyes were now fixed upon the movements of the horseman.
"And I'm simply furious; I'd counted on a dramatic situation, Ailsa the soldiers farewell, loud sobs, sweetheart faints, lancer dashes away unmanly tears 'Be strong, be br-r-rave, dah-ling! Hevving watches over your Alonzo! "Not so. A big brawny brute in spurs comes in the dark to stir us with the toe of his boot.
Hesketh was lucky enough to share a room with a brother Lancer, and a mixed bag of Gunners and Hussars made up a cheery dinner-table. Poor dear, it was only sleep he wanted, for next morning he showed up, as his fond owner remarked, "bright as a button!" 12th.
Taking my hand, she drew me down toward her and said in a whisper, "Are you satisfied with me? I did my best, dear." "Come, no emotion," exclaimed the doctor, "you shall kiss each other tomorrow. Colonel," he said to my father, who still retained his hat and stick, "keep them from kissing. No emotion, and every one outside. I am going to dress the little lancer. Give me the little man, grandmamma.
A few, horses and men, rose, and ran across the plain. But the wings of the Mexican force closed in, and continued the charge, expecting victory, now that the rifles were empty. But they forgot the pistols. Ned snatched his from the holster, and fired directly into the evil face of a lancer who was about to crash into him.
"Our bullets would be wasted now, even if we brought down a lancer or two," he said, "so we'll just save 'em until we're cornered if we are. Then they will tell. Look, here are thorn bushes! Come this way." They ran among the bushes which reached out and took little bits of their clothing as they passed. But they rejoiced in the fact.
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