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Beauvais was promoted to be maître d'hôtel, and a hard enough time he had, losing, in one year, a very good head of hair over it. The only authority I was made to assume was over the pages of honor. There were ten of these brats, all dressed in yellow silk breeches and waistcoats, and black velvet coats, and they gave me more trouble, grief and perplexity than my whole battalion of Uhlans.
Suddenly a voice arose from the armed mass: "Bring me the peasant hither." Bernadou was seized by several hands and forced and dragged from his door out to the place where the leader of the uhlans sat on a white charger that shook and snorted blood in its exhaustion. Bernadou cast off the alien grasp that held him, and stood erect before his foes.
There was a moment of confusion, and Frank and his comrades took instant advantage of it. With a rush they reached the road and tore down it for dear life, while behind them thundered the Uhlans in hot pursuit! The Army boys had no idea where the road led to. It might be to the American lines or to the German lines.
Every man in France is envying the young dragoon officer, Lieutenant Bruyant, who has been given the first Cross of the Legion of Honor in the war. The lieutenant with six men was scouting near the frontier, when suddenly he saw a number of horsemen moving a good way off, and made them out to be a patrol of twenty-seven Uhlans. Shots were exchanged and a German fell. Then the Uhlans cantered away.
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They were the corpses of Uhlans, covered with some cloaks from which were protruding the enormous soles of their boots. "Plain murder!" he exclaimed. "A crime for which the guilty are going to pay dearly!"
They had fought well in the past in a good many wars. But somehow it seemed rather absurd to match them, with their undersized horses, against magnificent specimens of men and horseflesh such as the German cavalry. He had passed a squadron of Uhlans, near Virballen, outlined against the sky. They had been grim and business-like in appearance.
It is rather hard not being with the men more, but the work is very absorbing, so I do not mind as much as I did. "I think the regiment will come out later, and they have promised to let me go back into it. I am sorry about the villages. It's a pity the Germans slopped over into France at all. I found two Uhlans yesterday in a farmyard; they had been behaving badly, so I did them both in.
He handed the paper to Lord Whittinghame as he spoke. The Imperial message read: "Happy to meet deputation. Please carry German flag, which will secure you from molestation en route. I am wiring orders for suspension of hostilities till dawn to-morrow. I hope we may make satisfactory arrangements. "That is quite satisfactory," said Lord Whittinghame to the captain of Uhlans.
Rickerl cast one swift glance at the savage faces, turned his head like a trapped wolf in a pit, hesitated, and started to run. A chorus of howls greeted him: "À mort!" "À mort le voleur!" "À la lanterne les Uhlans!" Scarcely conscious of what he was doing, Jack sprang from his tree and ran parallel to Rickerl. "Ricky!" he called in English "follow me! Hurry! hurry!"
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