retirez

Updated: May 2, 2025

Retirez!" cried the heralds, as they spurred their horses between the exhausted men. Slowly the gallant Beaumanoir led the twenty-five men who were left to their original station, where they opened their visors and threw themselves down upon the grass, panting like weary dogs, and wiping the sweat from their bloodshot eyes.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sir Nigel