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I know that they change their names when they go into nunneries, and she may be Sister Angela or Cecilia, or anything else, and I should not know in the slightest degree whether the name he put down was the one that she really goes by. No, that idea is out of the question." Returning to the camp, he held counsel with Herrara.
Terence and Herrara had a consultation, and then the former called Bull and Macwitty to him. "Now," he said, "you understand that while we will defend this defile as long as we can, we will run no risk of a defeat that might end in a rout.
"I should wish to say, General, that in telling this story I have been chiefly anxious to do justice to the hearty co-operation of Lieutenant Herrara, and the services rendered by my own two orderlies and his troopers. By myself, I could have done absolutely nothing. Their work was hard and incessant, and the drill and discipline of the troops was wholly due to them." "I understand, Mr.
I have done so, and I think I can answer that they can be relied upon to do their duty under all circumstances." Terence now turned, and with a hearty farewell to Captain Nelson, rode on by the side of Lieutenant Herrara. The two British troopers followed them, the four mules with their two muleteers kept close behind, and the twelve Portuguese troopers brought up the rear.
The work of inspection was still going on. At its conclusion, Colonel Herrara reported that no single article of plunder had been found. "I am gratified that it is so, Herrara," he said; "now let the regiment form up in hollow square, again. "Men," he went on, "I have a message for you from Lord Wellington;" and he repeated that which he had suggested.
Colonel O' Connor is to continue in command of the regiments, which will be attached to the British army, under the command of Sir John Cradock. "Here is also a letter for your friend Herrara, and a much more bulky one; will you hand it to him?"
A quarter of an hour later Herrara left for Lisbon, bearing many messages of kind regards on Terence's part to Don Jose and his family.
The troops on arriving at their present camping-place were eager to be led into Oporto. Terence and Herrara had talked the matter over several times, and agreed that such a step might be fatal. Standing, as this town did, on the north side of the river, the only means of leaving it was the bridge of boats, and if anything happened to this all retreat would be cut off.
This picture is very remarkable; it is in the earliest manner of Velasquez, painted in the bold free style of his first master, Herrara, whose school he quitted when he was about seventeen or eighteen, just at the period when the Pope's ordinance was proclaimed at Seville.
Terence had approached Oporto, and encamped in a large wood, when the fugitives brought him news of the crushing defeat that they had suffered. The soldiers were so furious when they heard of the disgraceful rout, that Terence and Herrara had difficulty in preventing them from killing the fugitives. The result strengthened his position.
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