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It was high time; for Ney, firmly established at Elchingen, was pushing on his vanguard towards the doomed city: Murat and Lannes were charged to support him on the north bank, while across the river Marmont, and further south Soult, cut off the retreat on Tyrol. At last the scales fell from Mack's eyes. Even now he protested against the mere mention of surrender. But again he was disappointed.
And when her bewildered gaze at last settled upon Mrs. Matchwell, who was standing darkly and motionless between the windows, she uttered another loud and horrible cry, and clung with her arms round Mrs. Mack's neck, and screamed 'Oh! Mrs. Mack, there she is there she is there she is.
Rapp, who accompanied him, informed me that on leaving Strasburg he observed, in the presence of several persons, "It will be said that I made Mack's plan of campaign for him. The Caudine Forks are at Ulm." Experience proved that Bonaparte was not deceived; but I ought on this occasion to contradict a calumnious report circulated at that time, and since maliciously repeated.
You mean to wreck Mack's life, and you're asking me to sit in with you and the devil while you do it. You mean to throw him out of a job, and you mean to keep him from getting another by working through that Means hypocrite. Yes, I can see through you, as plain as a slit canvas. There's something infernal back of all this, and that something is your goat.
At that Larry appeared to wake up as from a sleep. "What did you say, Mack?" he answered. "Of course I care, you know that, Mack." "Then," said Mack, "for God's sake, get a smile on your face. Smile, confound you, smile." The boy passed his gloved hand over his face, looked for a moment into Mack's eyes, and the old smile came back to his lips. "Now you're all right," cried Mack in triumph.
Old Mack's down with a case of Indian summer. He overlooked his bet when he was young; and now he's suing Nature for the interest on the promissory note he took from Cupid instead of the cash. Rebosa, are you bent on having this marriage occur?" "Why, sure I am," says she, oscillating the pansies on her hat, "and so is somebody else, I reckon." "What time is it to take place?" I asks.
I haf done better, howeffer, but indeed I may not to-day." It was indeed a great throw, and one immediate result was that there was no holding back in the contest, no playing 'possum. Mack's throw was there to be beaten, and neither McGee nor even Black Duncan could afford to throw away a single chance.
Richest squatter in Vic, an' that dirty mean he won't wash 'cause o' the ruinous wear and tear on soap. That was his wife 'long side him. 'Yes, she came over in our ship. 'Shipmates, eh? That's as good as first-cousins. 'Who was the other man? 'Donno. Looked like something just blown ashore. Very superior, likely. Mrs Mack's got a weakness for gentility.
To hold Baton Rouge about 3,000 men were detached, under Chickering, including the 41st Massachusetts, 173d New York, 175th New York, 1st Indiana heavy artillery, 3d Louisiana native guards, Mack's battery, and Troop F of the Rhode Island cavalry.
Hasty preparations, rash plans, and, above all, Mack's fatal ingenuity in reading his notions into facts these were the causes of a disaster which ruined the chances of the allies. The Archduke Charles, who had been foiled by Masséna's stubborn defence, was at once recalled from Italy in order to cover Vienna; and, worst of all, the Court of Berlin now delayed drawing the sword.
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