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"They were at once warned of the advance of the enemy, and here he was finally beaten off. A number of casualties were sustained in the withdrawal from the dug-outs behind Schuler Farm. At that time we could not get into touch on our left, but the gap was soon filled in by a party of the 6th King's Liverpool Regiment and the Battalion Headquarters from Spree Farm.
She was a devoted Catholic, and was perhaps quite a model sort of a Christian as Christians went then, in high life. Tradition says she spent the last two years of her life in the strange den I have been speaking of, after having indulged herself in one final, triumphant, and satisfying spree.
"I hope you don't mean going on a spree," said Burke, who was standing near. "That would be something entirely different." "I thought," said the captain, "that you both understood this business, but I don't mind going over it again.
And those fool boys, and Custer among them, thought it would be great fun and a great spree. Luckily, maw had the gumption to get Watson to write over about it to one of his friends, a Mr. Mr. MacFen, a very prominent man." "Perhaps you mean Sir James MacFen," suggested the consul. "He's a knight. And what did HE say?" he added eagerly.
Meanwhile he kept the documents, which were written in German; and Benyowsky, the Pole, was elected chief. The Cossack guards came sulkily back from their gambling bout. The exiles were placed in elk-team sleds, and the remaining thousand miles to the Pacific resumed. But the spree had left the soldiers with sore heads. At the first camping place they were gambling again.
There was no mention of it, and I could find very little about anything except a thing called the General Assembly some ecclesiastical spree, I gathered. One day he produced my belt from a lockfast drawer. 'There's a terrible heap o' siller in't, he said. 'Ye'd better coont it to see it's a' there. He never even sought my name.
"Well, I daresay she got fed up with the house and the weather and went off to London for a spree." Eva laughed rather hardly. "A theatre would be a blessed relief after the dulness of this place." "She would not be likely to go alone." "Oh, I daresay she would pick up some man to go with." "Don't speak like that, Eva, please. Mrs. Rose is not the sort of girl to 'pick up' anybody."
Before the commencement of the Prussian campaign, while anxiety was entertained respecting the designs of the Cabinet of Berlin, my task was not an easy one. I exerted all my efforts to acquaint the French Government with what was passing on the Spree.
Even Roush, who in the past three years had never given young Clanton an opportunity to meet him face to face, stole furtively into the tendejons of the Mexican quarter and spent money freely in treating. Among the natives Go-Get-'Em Jim was in ill-repute for shooting a bad man named Juan Ortez who had attempted to terrorize the town while on a spree.
There was my brother S, with his frank English face, a host in himself; Lieutenant in his blouse, wide white trowsers, and red sash, his broad straw hat shading a dark manly face that would have been a splendid property for a bandit chief; the four gay, reckless, idle sons of , famous at any spree, but incapable of the least mental or physical exertion, who considered hunting and fishing as the sole aim and object of life.
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