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Updated: June 17, 2025
"The Royal Picts Sergeant-Major Stanislas Anastasius Wilders McKay to be Ensign, vice Arrowsmith, killed in action." They had lost no time; the reward had followed quickly upon the gallant deed that deserved it. Barely a month had elapsed since the Alma, yet already he was an officer, bearing the Queen's commission, which he had won with his own right arm.
Hobson; "you are about the best abused people in the world, I should say, just now." "It is hard on us, for I assure you we do our best. We are constantly, uninterruptedly at work. I never know a moment that I may not be wanted that some special messenger may not be after me. I have to leave my address so that they can find me wherever I am, and at any time." "Is it so now?" asked Mrs. Wilders.
Wilders, still utilising the Arcadia, started for England. The yacht, a fast sailer, made good progress, and was already at anchor in Gibraltar Bay on the morning that McKay arrived. "Shall I go on board and tax her with her misdeeds?" McKay asked himself. "No; she can wait. I have more pressing and more pleasant business on hand." His first visit was to the Convent.
How do I find everything and everybody out? That's my affair my business, I may say." "And what do you want?" went on Mrs. Wilders, in the same key. "First of all, to condole with you on the loss of so many near relatives. I missed you at Constantinople after Lord Lydstone's sad and dreadful death." Mrs. Wilders shuddered in spite of herself. "You suffer remorse?" he said, mockingly.
The small force under General Wilders, which included the Royal Picts, soon began to feel the stress of this renewed onslaught. "They are coming on again and in great numbers, sir," said McKay to his general. "I see, and menacing both our flanks. We shall be surrounded and swallowed up if we don't take care." "Some support ought to be near by this time, sir," replied McKay. "Ride back, and see.
Beyond these forces, General Wilders, with whom young McKay now rode as extra aide, led a fraction of his brigade, including the Royal Picts, against the Sandbag Battery, a point deemed important because it commanded the extreme right of the position.
One by one, as their names stood upon his list, Luck called the boys forward and with exaggerated deliberation peeled off fifty-dollar notes and one-hundred-dollar notes to take their breath and speech from them. With Billy Wilders, his friend in the bank, to help him, he had boyishly built that roll for just this heart-warming little ceremony.
Unless I am much mistaken, she won't drop Cousin Bill." Lord Essendine, who was, perhaps, behind the scenes, was not wrong in his estimate of the influence Madame Cyprienne exercised. Before six months were out, Colonel Wilders came, with rather a sheepish air, to the head of the house, and informed him of his approaching marriage to the Countess de Saint Clair. "That's a new title to me, Bill.
"They were far too strong for you; I could see that myself." "That's what Lord Raglan said. As if any one of us was not good enough for twenty Russians! But he was particularly anxious, so I heard him say, not to be drawn into an action to-day." "No doubt he was right," replied old Wilders. "Only it can't be put off much longer.
The Pollingtons, the Wilders, the Wardens, the Baerens, the Goslings, and others of his acquaintance, talked of Lady Camper and General Ople rather maliciously. They were all City people, and they admired the General, but mourned that he should so abjectly have fallen at the feet of a lady as red with rouge as a railway bill. His not seeing it showed the state he was in. The sister of Mrs.
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