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Updated: May 5, 2025
Its banks were covered with high grass and thick jungle growth; on the other side of the river immense thickly-packed masses of troops appeared the advancing Russian army. Both armies must soon come into collision by the river, for single English cavalry regiments and horse artillery batteries, advancing in a long line, were already in its immediate neighbourhood.
I hope they are not broken. Try and get out some of the screws." These were gradually drawn from the very stout chest, the lid lifted, a quantity of thickly-packed straw removed, and a round package of brown paper was revealed. "Out with it, Tom," said his uncle. "No, don't trust to the string." Tom bent down to lift out the package, but failed, and his uncle laughed.
Close around me the scene was still and silent; the wounded had been removed during the night, but the thickly-packed dead lay side by side where they fell. From the rampart to the ditch, the ranks lay where they had stood in life. A faint phosphoric flame flickered above their ghastly corpses, making even death still more horrible.
Down their thickly-packed lines the volume of sound arose and grew, a faint murmur at first, swelling and growing to a thunderous roar. Myriads of hats were suddenly torn from the heads of the excited multitude, handkerchiefs waved from every window. It was a wonderful greeting, this. "The Czar on his way to the railway station," Bellamy remarked.
As the sun went down on that dim misty day, the clouds and the thickly-packed mist cleared off, to let him shine on us, on that chamber of woes and bitter unpurifying tears; and the sunlight wrapped those two, the sick man and the ministering woman, shone on them changed, changed utterly. Good Lord!
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