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They halted at the post-office, and the captain of Uhlans, who was in charge of all the telegraph lines of the south-east, was requested to send the following telegram, which was signed by Lord Whittinghame and Lord Kitchener.
He knew I was not a coward, for I had led his Uhlans, and what he said to me was this: "Lose not a moment in going, Babache. It is because you love her so much that you know she is in distress. I think you would know as much, if it were I instead of Francezka." Which was true. I can not believe that Count Saxe should need me, and I not know it, were I at the other end of the world.
The French remained motionless, ten leagues away; and yet, every night, some of the Uhlans disappeared. Of all the isolated scouts, of all those who were sent to the outposts, in groups of not more than three, not one ever returned. They were picked up the next morning in a field or in a ditch. Even their horses were found along the roads with their throats cut.
Another emigrant who, after being a page to the Duc d'Angouleme, made four campaigns as an officer of the Uhlans in the service of the Emperor of Germany, and was rewarded with the Military Order of Maria Theresa, is now a knight of the Legion of Honour, and an officer of the Mamelukes of the Emperor of the French.
In that moment of danger the young American showed the best that was in him. Forgetful of self and remembering the importance of Lannes' mission, he shouted: "The Uhlans are upon us, Philip! I can't escape, but you must! Go! Go at once!" Lannes gave one startled glance, and he understood in a flash.
Twenty riderless horses dashed madly up and down the road, while the balance of the Uhlans sought safety in flight. The balloon descended but a short distance from thee scene of the engagement and was found to contain a man named Du Norof. He had with him dispatches from Paris which was then besieged. Their next engagement was at Martes.
About fifty prisoners, chiefly belonging to the 121st and the 180th Infantry Regiments of the 26th Reserve Division were taken, along with a few Uhlans. Eventually the fringe of Hendicourt was reached, and several men entered the village. As it was reported that there were no British troops on either side of the village it was decided on the spot to withdraw to Cemetery Avenue temporarily.
Why, you answer me like flags, banners, uhlans' pennons, fullfrocked cardinals! My father stepped in. 'Ah, yes, said the margravine. 'But you little know, my good Roy, the burden of an unmarried princess; and heartily glad shall I be to hand her over to Baroness Turckems. That's her instituted governess, duenna, dragon, what you will.
At one table, a lieutenant of Uhlans with his mädel of the moment, at another a jolly old spitzbub' sending with a loose jest a girl from the chorus of the Theater des Westens into blushes and being sent himself in return with a looser. At still another, another family man with his. But why need to pursue the catalogue? This, too, is Berlin.
The Uhlans, their piebald lance-pennants fluttering in the wind, cantered leisurely round the crests of the little knolls which formed the vedette posts, despising mightily the straggling chassepot bullets which were pitched at them from time to time in a desultory way; but which, desultory as they were, now and then brought lance-pennant and its bearer to the ground an occurrence invariably followed by a little spurt of lively hostility.
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