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Updated: June 18, 2025
Well, to-morrow, at least " "To-day, you mean." "Well! to-day I shall be tranquil." "Why so?" "Because those cursed Angevins will be killed." "You think so, Henri?" "I am sure of it; my friends are brave." "I never heard that the Angevins were cowards." "No, doubtless; but my friends are so strong; look at Schomberg's arm; what muscle!" "Ah! if you saw Autragues's! Is that all that reassures you?"
Youth that is fresh enough to believe in guilt, in innocence, and in itself, will always doubt whether it have not perchance deserved its fate. Sombre of mind and without appetite, I struggled with the chop while Mrs. Schomberg sat with her everlasting stupid grin and Schomberg's talk gathered way like a slide of rubbish. "Let me tell you. It's all about that girl.
Schomberg's vanity clung to the belief in some atrocious, extraordinary means of seduction employed by Heyst. "Look how he bewitched that poor Morrison," he murmured. "Ah, Morrison got all his money, what?" "Yes and his life." "Terrible fellow, that Swedish baron! How is one to get at him?" Schomberg exploded. "Three against one! Are you shy? Do you want me to give you a letter of introduction?"
A contagious distemper still continued to rage in Schomberg's camp, and swept off a great number of officers and soldiers; so that in the beginning of next spring, not above half the number of those who went over with the general remained alive.
James advanced to a point about seven miles from Schomberg, and there entrenched himself in turn, and so the two armies remained; as one of Schomberg's officers says, "our General would not risk anything, nor King James venture anything." The long delay was very fatal to Schomberg's army, his losses by sickness and disease being more than six thousand men.
They never seem to get warmed up properly, win or lose. I've tried them both ways, too. Hang them for a beggarly, bloodless lot of animated cucumbers!" "And if anything out of the way was to happen, they would be just as cool in locking you and your gentleman up," Schomberg snarled unpleasantly. "Indeed!" said Ricardo slowly, taking Schomberg's measure with his eyes. "And what about you?"
And indeed on thinking it over it would have been plausible enough if there hadn't been always the essential falseness of irresponsibility in Schomberg's chatter. However, I was not disposed to investigate the psychology of Falk.
But that Schomberg's intellectual powers had been little impaired by years is sufficiently proved by his despatches, which are still extant, and which are models of official writing, terse, perspicuous, full of important facts and weighty reasons, compressed into the smallest possible number of words.
Report had magnified Schomberg's strength to more than twice its real numbers, and the military leaders could not believe that, after so many months of preparation, William had despatched so small an army for the conquest of Ireland. Confusion and dismay reigned in Dublin.
In a day or two after James drew off his army to Ardee, Count Rosen indignantly exclaiming, "If your Majesty had ten kingdoms, you would lose them all." In the meantime, Schomberg remained entrenched in his camp. The Enniskilleners nevertheless made various excursions, and routed a body of James's troops marching towards Sligo. Great distress fell upon Schomberg's army.
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