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Three or four hundred of the 25th Michigan Infantry were stationed at the bridge to protect it; but the commander, Colonel Orlando H. Moore, deliberately quitting the elaborate stockade erected near the bridge, in which nine officers out of ten would have remained, but where we could have shelled him into surrender without losing a man ourselves, selected one of the strongest natural positions I ever saw, and fortified it skilfully although simply.
"You're an insolent saucebox," says Jemmy; "you've learned that at your fine school." "I've learned something else, too, ma'am; ask the boys if I haven't," grumbles Tug. "You hawk your daughter about, and just escape marrying her to a swindler." "And drive off poor Orlando," whimpered my girl. "Silence! Miss," says Jemmy, fiercely.
But Charlemagne was the temporal head of Christendom; the poets constituted his nephew its champion; and hence all the glories and superhuman exploits of the Orlando of Pulci and Ariosto.
Then he called on Orlando and Rinaldo by their names, and they lowered their heads and strained at their collars, and with a mighty wrench of their loins and shoulders they forced the share through the heavy earth. Nerina stood still and looked after him as he passed along under the vine-hung trees.
He was a conqueror, and it was for him now to reap the joy of conquest. Three days had passed, and Orlando Brotherson sat in his room at the hotel before a table laden with telegrams, letters and marked newspapers. The news of his achievement had gone abroad, and Derby was, for the moment, the centre of interest for two continents. His success was an established fact.
But this woman is a nasty, low, scheming, ill-conducted, dishonest little wretch; and if you make her your wife you'll be miserable all your life. Nothing would make me and Orlando so unhappy as to quarrel with you. But we know that it is so, and to the last minute I shall say so. Why don't you ask her to her face about that man down in Scotland?"
The horse did not stir, and the old man, whose breath came almost normally now, moved over and caught its bridle. In a dazed kind of way, and with growing unsteadiness, Orlando walked towards the camp-fire. He was leaning against his horse, and opening his coat and waistcoat to find the wound in his side and staunch it with the kerchief from his neck, when Mazarine came up.
It is a proof of Orlando's gentle breeding that he instantly yields to courtesy: 'Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you. Orlando says to Jaques: 'I will chide no breather in the world, but myself, against whom I know most faults. This is characteristic of Shakespeare, and is in the spirit of the Gospels.
Hating to bear the very name of any of his brother's friends, and yet still admiring the valor of the youth, he said, as he went out, that he wished Orlando had been the son of any other man.
And he might well say it; for the flower of all France was there, except Rinaldo and Ricciardetto; every man a picked man; all friends and constant companions of Orlando.
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