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Jacques Vienkes, who had the direction of it, joined his captain immediately afterward, and prepared to make a second attack on the fish when it should remount to the surface.
I am Lieutenant Savva Yaloylev Khorvat, formerly of the State Remount Establishment, subsequently of the Department of Imperial Lands. I am a man who, after never having been found officially remiss, am living in honourable retirement a man at once a householder, a widower, and a person of hasty temper."
"And you, John Penhallow, my brother's son, were afraid?" "I was." It was only in part true. His mother had forbidden the master to remount him. "By George!" said Penhallow angrily, "I don't believe you, I can't!" John rose, "I may be a coward, Uncle James, but I never lie." Penhallow stood up, "I beg your pardon, John." "Oh! no, Uncle James. I please not."
He was particularly affected with two accidents which happened to him not long before his death, and which struck him with great concern at the time they happened. The first of these was a fall from his horse under Tyburn, in which he was stunned so that he could not recover strength enough to remount, but was helped on his horse again by the assistance of two friends.
You'll be on the porch when I come back? and without waiting for a reply he clucked to his horse and trotted away. Helen looked after him in surprise. 'Papa's up to something he ought to leave alone, she decided wisely. She turned to remount. 'We'd better follow him and Suddenly her expression altered. Her eyes softened and she added. 'I know, she added. 'No, we mustn't follow him.
Those of us who have been out of place resume our positions; the men resting at ease straighten themselves, and the ranks are reformed without a command. Some of us staff officers dismount and look at our saddle-girths; those already on the ground remount. Galloping rapidly along in the edge of the open ground comes a young officer on a snow-white horse. His saddle-blanket is scarlet. What a fool!
Thus we were supplied with horses enough to remount our men, and pursued our first design of getting into Lancashire. As for our prisoners, we let them off on foot.
The Atascosa, our nearest water, lay beyond the regular trail to the west, and leaving orders for the outfit to drift the herd into it and water, Flood and myself started in search of our absent men, not forgetting to take along two extra horses as a remount for Blades and Priest.
At this moment firing was heard on the crest of the hill commanding the battery. Sir Isaac Brock and his aides had not even time to remount, but were compelled to retire with the twelve gunners who manned the battery. This was promptly occupied by the Americans, who raised the stars and stripes. Placing himself at the head of a company of the Forty-ninth he charged up the hill under a heavy fire.
Nicholas B. breathed the air of the "Border," his native air. Unkind fate was lying in wait for him amongst the scenes of his youth. At the first news of the rising in Warsaw all the remount establishment, officers, vets., and the very troopers, were put promptly under arrest and hurried off in a body beyond the Dnieper to the nearest town in Russia proper.
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