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Updated: May 15, 2025
It's a long walk for you, though, Richard, and there's no moon." "Oh, I'll take a lantern!" said the curate, and accordingly he started off that afternoon on his six-miles walk thus provided. Biddy and her mistress spent the evening together, talking softly over their needlework, so as not to disturb Dulcie's sleep in the cradle near.
It might well happen that for many of us this was the last meal on earth, for we were within hearing of the heavy guns of the fort, and when three of these should be fired in succession we were to take up our final six-miles' march. But this reflection made no one sad, apparently. Everywhere you could hear merry converse and sounds of laughter.
The course is considerably over an English mile, and they make four circuits; so that the race is fully six-miles, a very hard one. It was a run in a rain, however, which began when it did, and soon forced up the umbrellas.
The farm depended on a market town in the opposite direction, and though the lights of Beachharbour could be seen at night, there was no way thither except by a six-miles walk along a cliff path, with a considerable detour in order to reach a bridge and cross the rapid river which was an element of danger in the bay, on the north side of the promontory which sheltered the harbour to the south.
The course is considerably over an English mile, and they make four circuits; so that the race is fully six-miles, a very hard one. It was a run in a rain, however, which began when it did, and soon forced up the umbrellas.
Well, I suppose it must have been that fact that made the horse race all day through the thickets and oak woods of the right shore, but I rather fancy my spurs had something to say to it too. When night again fell, the whole force had reached a spot six-miles from the rebel fort, and camp was formed for the last time on the west bank of the river.
There was a titter amongst the men at the expression of their big comrade's face, for Ladoc was ravenously hungry, and felt inclined to rebel at the idea of being obliged to start on a six-miles' walk without food; but as his young master was about to do the same he felt that it was beneath his dignity to complain.
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