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All round that basin, on shore and cliff and mountains, thousands of veteran fighters Fraser's, Otway's, Townsend's, Murray's; and on the other side the splendid soldiers of La Sarre, Languedoc, Bearn, and Guienne watched in silence. Well they might, for in this entr'acte was the little weapon forged which opened the door of New France to England's glory.
"But do you really think they are ready?" she said doubtfully. "Look how badly they've been doing at Liége." It was strange how Mrs. Otway's mind had veered round in the last few minutes. She now wanted the Germans to be beaten, and beaten quickly. He shook his head impatiently. "Wait till they get into their stride!"
Only lately have we turned the corner " Mrs. Fröhling sighed. Then her face brightened, and Mrs. Hegner looking round saw that Anna Bauer, Mrs. Otway's servant, was pushing her way through the crowd towards them. Now pretty Polly disliked the old woman.
She gave him a look of intelligence, but took his arrival as a matter of course, and spoke to him about a flowering shrub which pleased her. Otway's heart sank. What had he expected? He neither knew nor asked himself; he stood beside her, seeing nothing, hearing only a voice and wishing it would speak on for ever.
Otway's peculiar rule concerning beer, and she had so far broken it as to enjoy a jug of beer of course at her own expense once a week. But she had only begun doing that after Mrs. Otway had raised her wages. Host and guest talked on and on. Mr. Hegner confided to Anna his coming change of name, and he seemed pleased to know that she thought it quite a good plan.
The next piece in which I appeared was Murphy's "Grecian Daughter;" a feeble and inflated composition, as inferior in point of dramatic and poetical merit to Otway's "Venice Preserved," as that is to any of Shakespeare's masterpieces.
The lady had her own sufficient pursuits, chief among them a rigid attention to matters ecclesiastical, local and national. That her husband held notably aloof from such interests was the subject of Mrs. Otway's avowed grief, and her peculiar method of assailing his position brought about the periodical disturbance which seemed on the whole an agreeable feature of her existence.
But the bishop and his brothers at the Mission would look forward to have the good captain, and Mr. Burr, and Mr. Otway, and the ladies to accept his hospitality. Mrs. Lacy's soft little gloved hand was in Otway's. "I thank you, Mr. Otway, very, very sincerely for your many kindnesses to me. You have indeed been most generous to us both.
This was the moment at which there descended upon Sabre, never to leave him while he remained not "in it", the appalling sense of oppression that the war exercised upon him. On his brain like a weight; on his heart like a pressing hand. He thought of Otway's intense, gleaming face. "My God, Sabre, you ought to have seen the battalion on parade this morning." He saw Otway's face cold and stricken.
All round that basin, on shore and cliff and mountains, thousands of veteran fighters Fraser's, Otway's, Townsend's, Murray's; and on the other side the splendid soldiers of La Sarre, Languedoc, Bearn, and Guienne watched in silence. Well they might, for in this entr'acte was the little weapon forged which opened the door of New France to England's glory.
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