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Others crawled into a big drain-pipe there were wounded women and children among them, and a young French interpreter, the Baron de Rosen, who tried to help them and they stayed there three days and nights, in their vomit and excrement and blood, until the bombardment ceased.
That kind of general tenderness which served the Countess for both heart and conscience, sharply smote her at this spectacle of grief and weakness; she began immediately to enter into the spirit of her part; and as soon as they were alone, taking one step forward and with a magnificent gesture 'Up! she cried. 'Madame von Rosen, replied Otto dully, 'you have used strong words.
"I am always going to play pinocle with you Sunday forenoons as long as you live, grandmother," said she. "After you are married?" "Yes, I am." "After you are married to a minister?" "Yes, grandmother." The old lady sat up straight and eyed Annie with her delighted china blue gaze. "Mr. von Rosen is a lucky man," said she. "Enough sight luckier than he knows.
Rosen's establishment, where the owner sat amid a variegated assortment of choicer specimens culled from his collected wares. Mr. Rosen needed no sign above his door to inform the passing public of the nature of his business. When the wind was right you could stand two blocks away and know it without being told. Here at Mr. Rosen's side door Red Hoss smacked his nostrils appreciatively.
"Take these, and go back at once," said Von Rosen, and he gathered up the night papers in a crumpled heap and thrust them upon the woman. "He said you had better telephone for Mrs. Bestwick," said Jane. Mrs. Bestwick was the resident nurse of Fairbridge. Von Rosen sprang to the telephone, but he could get no response whatever from the Central office, probably on account of the ice-coated wires.
"What is it?" asked Von Rosen with an emphasis, which rendered it so suspicious that he might have added: "what the devil is it?" had it not been for his profession. Sturtevant answered noiselessly, the motion of his lips conveying his meaning.
Hidden among some lilac bushes, she enjoyed the great decorum of the arrest, and heard the dialogue of the two men die away along the path. Soon after, the rolling of a carriage and the beat of hoofs arose in the still air of the night, and passed speedily farther and fainter into silence. The Prince was gone. Madame von Rosen consulted her watch.
The enemy were intending to turn our left, take possession of the Mission House road, and interpose between Chatter-augus and our army, secure Chatteraugus and Bridgeton, thereby taking possession of the lines of railroad between there and Nashua, forcing Rosen felt away from his base of supplies, and, eventually, to destroy and capture his army. "Gen.
Then I had a daughter that died in a few days; then I had my Rosen Blumen, and you will see who she looks like; then some more came and went to the angels. Last of all came little Lila, who looks just like her father, flaxen hair, pink cheeks, and great German forget-me-nots for eyes." "How I shall love them all!" exclaimed Rosa. "And you will love our Eulalia.
He felt absurdly shy, and he was very much relieved when finally Miss Harriet and Annie took their leave and he had said nothing about the engagement. Miss Harriet said a great deal about his most interesting and improving collection. She was a woman of a patronising turn of mind and she made Von Rosen feel like a little boy.
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