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Updated: May 23, 2025
I happened to be at Voulangis when the territorials left quite unexpectedly, as usual. They never get much notice of a relève. We were sitting in the garden at tea when the assemblage general was sounded, and the order read to march at four next morning. The last thing I saw that night was-the light of their lanterns, and the last thing I heard was the march of their hob-nailed boots.
He did not love the woman before him so much as the girl whose ghost she was-the woman whose promise she was. He held himself responsible for it all, and he throbbed with desire to repair the ravage he had indirectly caused. There was nothing equivocal in his position-nothing to disown. How others might look at it he did not consider and did not care.
To punish the monks, the King appointed the fighting abbot, Turauld, as the successor of Brand, and in order to conciliate this ruffian-for such he was-the monks of Peterborough prepared their best cheer.
England was to me as the high and powerful head of my house, whose greatness and whose glory shed a halo far and near, from the proudest to the humblest of those that call themselves Britons; but Ireland was-the land of my birth, the land of my earliest ties, my dearest associations, the kind mother whose breath had fanned my brow in infancy, and for her in my manhood my heart beat with every throb of filial affection.
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