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"Ah, here are people coming," he thought joyfully, seeing some men running toward him. "They will help me!" In front came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, and with a hooked nose. Then came two more, and many more running behind. One of them said something strange, not in Russian. In among the hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a Russian hussar.
The French soldiers baled out dollars and doubloons in their shakos, and helped themselves to diamonds and pearls. This dreadful blow, when the news reached him in the woods where he watched near Lamoricière's command, almost overwhelmed, for a time, even the exalted and undaunted spirit of the Sultan. He spent some hours alone in his tent, in meditation and prayer.
The Minister of War commenced to speak, and in a tone of irritated surprise, instead of the lofty, patriotic considerations that Vaudrey expected of him, Vaudrey heard him muttering behind his moustache about soldiers' cap-straps, shakos, gaiter-buttons, shoulder-straps, cloth and overcoats. That was all.
But the lieutenant in command of the battery had at least a little sense, even if he did not have much courage, and he looked towards where I pointed and then he saw the shakos, as the mist lifted again, not a hundred feet away. "'Save yourselves, I will make the guns safe, he cried to his men he was not all a coward, poor fellow and as they ran for it he picked up the spikes and the hammer.
He tried to stop the horses; two strange-looking soldiers, wearing glossy shakos and white-and-blue aiguillettes, began to bawl at him; a group of peasants before the cottages fled, screaming. Grahame threw all his strength into his arms and dragged the horses to a stand-still. "Are we in Luxembourg?" he called to the gendarmes, who ran up, gesticulating violently. "Are we? Good!
Here was one who felt as he did, one who could understand him, but his eyes sought in vain among the lines of glimmering black shakos. "Silence in the ranks!" Two officers came forward, talking together and pausing to watch the curious light now rising and sinking and rising again in the sky over the eastern ridges. "They must have caught sight of our fellows listen, wasn't that a cheer?
At a time when soldiers fought, and marched, and lived in tight scarlet tunics, high stocks, trousers tightly strapped over Wellington boots, and shakos which would now be looked on as certain death, Sir Henry evolved the startling heresy that to get the best work out of troops, and to enable them to undertake great exertions, it was necessary that the soldier should be loosely, comfortably, and suitably clad, that something more substantial than a pill-box with a pocket-handkerchief wrapped round it was required as a protection from a tropical sun, and that footgear must be made for marching, and not for parading round a band-stand.
Looking on the bridge he saw equally uniform living waves of soldiers, shoulder straps, covered shakos, knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and feet that moved through the sticky mud that covered the planks of the bridge.
Through the grey mists we see a medley of moving colours blue and grey and scarlet and black of shakos and sabretaches, of English and French and Hanoverian and Scotch, of epaulettes and bare knees; we hear the sound of carbine and artillery fire, the clank of swords and bayonets, the call of bugle and trumpet and the wail of the melancholy pibroch: tunics and gold tassels and kilts a medley of sounds and of visions!
The guns and pistols the spurs, lances, and saddles the shakos and helmets all spoke of the spoiled presidios on the Mexican frontier; while fair-skinned doncellas of Spanish race were seen mingling with the copper-coloured squaws aiding them in their domestic duties captives to all appearance contented with their captivity! None of this was new to me.
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