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Besides, was not the young gentlewoman in great wrong, and therefore before her must she not personify an awful Purity? 'That I will tell to none but my lord marquis, answered Dorothy, with sudden resolve. 'Oh, by all means, mistress! but an' thou think to lead him by the nose while I be in Raglan, 'Shall I inform his lordship in what high opinion his housekeeper holds him? said Dorothy.
So, in the autumn of the year 1854, the English and French armies, under Lord Raglan and Marshal St. Arnaud, were landed in the Crimea, where they gained a great victory on their first landing, called the battle of the Alma, and then besieged the city of Sebastopol.
The general read his orders, with lips compressed and lowering brow. "You come straight from Lord Raglan? But, surely, you are General Airey's aide-de-camp?" "Lord Raglan himself entrusted me with the message." "I can't believe it. It is utterly impracticable: for any useful purpose. Quite unequal, quite inadequate, to the risks and frightful loss it must entail."
Jack and his comrades, who were but a few yards away, felt strange and sick, for it was the first they had seen of battle close at hand. Lord Raglan, with his staff, moved slowly forward. Captain Peel asked if he should bring up his sailors, but was told to hold them in reserve, as the force in the trenches had already been fearfully weakened. "Stay here," Captain Peel said to the midshipmen.
When fifteen hours had gone by, his attendants thought it time to break open the door; and Lord Raglan was found dead, with a bottle of strychnine by the bedside. The affair, so far as the circumstances indicated suicide, was hushed up, and his death represented as a natural one.
To run his neck into a halter, and set honest people in mortal doubt whether to pull the end or no! How on earth did he ever dream of carrying off a horse out of the very courts of Raglan castle! And yet, by saint George! he would have done it too, but for that brave wench of a Vaughan! What a couple the two would make! They'd give us a race of Arthurs and Orlandos between them.
'Thou wast never better than a shifting fanatic! cried sir Rowland. 'An' I served thee as befitted, thou shouldst never see thy horse again, returned Richard. 'Yet I promise thee that so soon as Raglan hath fallen, he shall again be thine. Nay, I care not.
Still Lord Raglan stood his ground, watching the action with keen interest and the most admirable self-possession. He was perfectly unmoved by the heavy fire and the carnage it occasioned. One or two of his staff besought him to move a little further to the rear, but he met the suggestion with good-natured contempt.
Herbert thought himself sufficiently recovered to encounter the fatigues of travelling, he urged on the somewhat laggard preparations of Dorothy, that he might himself see her safely housed on his way to Llangattock, whither he was most anxious to return. It was a lovely spring morning when they set out together on horseback for Raglan.
He held out his hand to Dorothy, and bade her welcome to Raglan. The marquis was a man of noble countenance, of the type we are ready to imagine peculiar to the great men of the time of queen Elizabeth. To this his unwieldy person did not correspond, although his movements were still far from being despoiled of that charm which naturally belonged to all that was his.
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