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Updated: June 13, 2025
Early in the morning our artillery began firing from the hill-crest immediately in front of where our men were camped. Several of the regiment were killed and wounded by the shrapnel of the return fire of the Spaniards. One of the shrapnel bullets fell on my wrist and raised a bump as big as a hickory nut, but did not even break the skin.
But that which had appeared to Miss Halkett a want of observancy, became attributable to depth of character on its being clear that he had waited for the departure of the transient guests of the house, to pour forth his impressions without holding up his kinsman to public scorn. He considered Shrapnel mad and Beauchamp mad. No such grotesque old monster as Dr.
We had been told that a hundred surgical cases were in the hospital, mostly shrapnel wounds, and that every available doctor and nurse was working night and day. We had seen, under one snow-covered canvas, six boys who had been killed by one shell early that morning boys that the night before we had talked with down in a front-line hut boys who had been killed in their billet in one room.
Some of the big German shells cost as high as $500 each. In some kinds of shrapnel, holding 300 bullets, there are more than thirty pieces of mechanism. Within forty-eight hours after England declared war she had engaged the total output of an American manufacturer, whose machinery was an important part of the shell-making business.
Then the colonel gave the order to fire at a house on the right side of the street, in which a bursting shrapnel had just effected a breach and out of which a detachment of infantry was seen to run. Once again, just before twilight, the battle burst out on both sides with tremendous fury.
When he was out of hearing, Colonel Halkett said to Cecilia: 'Grancey Lespel tells me that Mr. Romfrey called on the man Shrapnel yesterday evening at six o'clock. 'Yes, Papa? 'Now come and see the fittings below, the colonel addressed Lord Lockrace, and murmured to his daughter: 'And soundly horsewhipped him! Cecilia turned on the instant to gaze after Nevil Beauchamp.
Again and again we caught bursting shells in the fields of our glasses and could thus see their effect as accurately as if we had been standing close by, without any danger of being perforated by shrapnel.
Alas for us! this our awful baggage in the rear of humanity, these women who have not moved on their own feet one step since the primal mother taught them to suckle, are perpetually pulling us backward on the march. Slaves of custom, forms, shows and superstitions, they are slaves of the priests. 'They are so in gratitude perchance, as the matter works, Dr. Shrapnel admitted.
For good-looking, refined-looking, quick-witted girls can be grown; but the nimble sense of fitness, ineffable lightning-footed tact, comes of race and breeding, and she was sure Nevil was a man soon to feel the absence of that. 'Dr. Shrapnel is persuasive to those who go partly with him, or whose condition of mind calls on him for great patience, Miss Denham said at last.
'Enough to let me swank about being wounded and show off a pretty scar to my best girl when the war's over. 'Afraid that last shrapnel burst gave some of your fellows more'n a pretty scar, said the gunner. 'But I suppose I'd better slow my guns up again. . . . Jackson, tell them the attack's evidently stopped section fire ten seconds.
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