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The lines of the enemy showed all along the skirts of timber, leaving the open space to our right and center, and extending to Buck Lick Run. Both seemed eager to make the attack, but our forces were first in motion, and with a quick-step movement they advanced against the enemy. The firing opened all along the line. First one and then the other line staggered and swayed to and fro.
"I saw her glide from the room, followed by the professor, playing a gay quick-step, to which the cats danced two and two. "'Good-night, sir, said each cat as it passed my bed; and I dreamed no more.
From a cart on the California corner, B. B. Redding and myself were onlookers. The condemned men were brought to the place under strong guard. Each of them mounted to the scaffold. Brace with quick-step; Hetherington with composure.
The test connected with the quick-step had reference to a tune which the young man used to play upon the piccolo, but which was so rapid that he never could get it right, for which he was chaffed by the family.
The announcement of the terms was received by our men with a cheer, for they had made up their minds that there was nothing before them but a march back to Stockbridge in the face of the wind and to meet the ridicule of the populace. As we now approached the cannon at quick-step Abner Rathbun came around and stood in front of it, so we did not see it till we were close upon it.
Into this dismal and jail-like yard poured the entire human wreckage of Fairview. Fred and Monet went with the others for one or two days, but finally Monet said: "Let's walk in the rain ... anything would be better than this." And so the next day, waiting until a pelting shower had merged gradually into a faint mist, the two took a quick-step run about the parade ground.
Parlin ordered the boys to lead the pony around to the back door, and there she washed out his wounds, trying all the while to soothe Susy, whose heart was beating a quick-step, and who trembled in every limb. "Old Grimes is dead, that good old man!" repeated Prudy, with angry emphasis; "but it wasn't his father. No, indeed; with the old blue buttons down the back! Why, Peter is an awful man!
"Meller is the only word for it, comrade, and your playing sirs, is artistic though doleful. P'raps you wouldn't mind giving us something brighter a rattling quick-step? P'raps you might remember one as begins: 'Some talk of Alexander And some, of Hercules; if it wouldn't be troubling you too much?"
Sir Hugh Montgomerie was the commandant; and he came in all the glory of war, on his best horse, and marched at the head of the men to the green-head. The doctor and me were the rearguard: not being able, on account of my age and his fatness, to walk so fast as the quick-step of the corps.
We were at a funeral this morning, to the tune of a dead march we return, this afternoon, to that of a quick-step." "I hope you are agreeably surprised to find that instead of being left behind, I have come back with the music," said the duke, recovering his self-possession. "Come and join me in a glass of good wine.
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