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Late in the evening the steamboat, which I had sent back to Vancouver, returned, bringing to my assistance from Vancouver, Captain Henry D. Wallen's company of the Fourth Infantry and a company of volunteers hastily organized at Portland, but as the Cascades had already been retaken, this reinforcement was too late to participate in the affair.
"Yes," Havisham said thoughtfully; "it is the best chance for that escape of which we all dream, and which two of our number, I see, have attempted in vain. I had set to-morrow night for my own attempt. This promises better." "Yea," said Porringer, "the stars in their courses fight against the refugee! Four times have I tried, to be retaken, and handled, as you see.
One old fellow who came from Vailly had lived for two months in a continual cannonade. He had seen his little town taken and retaken ten times in turn by the French and the Germans. When I heard of this eye-witness I thought: "Here is a man who has a marvellous story to tell.
The giraffes had become tame, and there was no reason why they should not be easily retaken. But just as the sun had mounted up to the meridian, this hope was dispelled by the appearance of Willem and his comrade coming back empty-handed. "You have been unsuccessful," said Hans, as they rode up. "Well, never mind; there is still a hope left us, and that is, to get safely home."
A slave boy ran away in cold weather, and during his concealment had his legs frozen; he returned, or was retaken. After some time the flesh decayed and sloughed of course was offensive he was carried out to a field and left there without bed, or shelter, deserted to die. His only companions were the house dogs which he called to him.
"All the Parthians took from him in the great battle in which they slew him I have retaken this writing, with other things, and vengeance, and all the brood of that Mira who in his time was mother of so many stars. "Peace be to you and all yours. "This voice out of the desert is the voice of "Ilderim, Shiek." Ben-Hur next unrolled a scrap of papyrus yellow as a withered mulberry leaf.
So they were formed into an English regiment, and sent to fight on the coast of Africa; and in more senses than one 'went to their own place. Then St. Lucia was ours till the peace of 1802; then French again, under the good and wise Nogues; to be retaken by us in 1803 once and for all.
I was afraid of being retaken, and of being ashamed of it for the rest of my life; for a man of sense ought to be able to snap his fingers at four hundred thousand men in the open country, and if he cannot escape capture he must be a fool. I went out by St.
I determine to reveal the plot I consult with Mark Our determination Southern latitudes The Southern Cross The Falkland Islands Mark escapes, but I am retaken Highland blood Mark's probable fate A battle with an albatross. "Land ho!" was shouted from the masthead.
Sir John Hepburn, at my request, took particular care of my comrade, and sent his own surgeon to look after him; and afterwards, when the city of Leipsic was retaken, provided him lodgings there, and came very often to see him; and indeed I was in great care for him too, the surgeons being very doubtful of him a great while; for having lain in the field all night among the dead, his wound, for want of dressing, and with the extremity of cold, was in a very ill condition, and the pain of it had thrown him into a fever.
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