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You may yet come to think the dearest boon that fate could have given her would have been a ball through her brain as she stood on the escarp so little her chances are worth!" This plain disclosure staggered MacLeod. He had thought the place amply victualed. A rising doubt of the officers' capacity to manage the situation showed in his face. Stuart interpreted the expression.
While the justices were puzzling over this, Hawes added, "Gentlemen, he said in his polite way, 'If it is like the prison rules and beats their comprehension, you may tell them it means "'There is many a slip 'Twixt the cup and the lip." "Well, Mr. Hawes what next?" "'I am victualed for a siege, says he, and he goes into his own room, and I heard him shoot the bolt."
Thus resolving, he ordered his trusty squire, Antony Van Corlear, to have his state galley prepared and duly victualed; which being performed, he attended public service at the great church of St.
The 17 a drowsie rainie day, and in the afternoone we saw 3 great spoutes of raine, two on our larbord side, and one right with the ships head, but God be thanked, they came not at vs, and this day we tooke in the last of our water for the sea, and the 26 we victualed our Carauell to go with vs to the sea.
A deprivation which, I doubt not, cost some of the officers more than any other, was that of their women, who were ordered back to the fort, and only two women for each company were allowed to be victualed upon the march, but in this particular the example set by the general was not so commendable as in the matter of the horses.
"Of the two evils it seems the lesser." "How about a boat?" "My own is fastened to the piles of the old deserted wharf." "You have with you neither food nor water." "Both are in the boat. I have kept her victualed for a week or more." He laughed in the darkness, and I heard my wife beside me utter a stifled exclamation.
He employed his immense wealth without prodigality; his finances were always flourishing; his cities well garrisoned and victualed; his army well paid; all the captains of adventure scattered throughout Italy received pensions from him, and were ready to return to his service whenever called upon.
All he could reply was that the ship was only being victualed as all ships ought to be whose owners cared, as they should do, for the comfort and health of their crews. More than that he could not say.
No Officer was in future to draw any rations from the Company Cookers, and the Mess Sergeant had somehow procured and victualed a mess-cart. That night must have been the most fateful night in the history of France. All the world was watching with bated breath, watching to see whether France was really a "back number" whether the Prussian was truly the salt of the earth.
The wagons, artillery, and pack-horses were formed into three divisions, and the provisions so distributed that each division was to be victualed from the part of the line it covered, and a commissary was appointed for each. The companies were to march two deep, that they might cover the line more effectively. Sir Peter Halket was to lead the column and Colonel Dunbar bring up the rear.
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