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The introductions followed, and feeling very uncomfortable all the while, Frank and his companion were in due course made known to Baron Steinberg, Count Von Baumhof, and to the four other guests, whose names he did not catch; and then, by the help of Captain Murray and Sir Robert, a difficult conversation was carried on, the German officers assuming a haughty, condescending manner towards the Guardsmen, who were most warm in their welcome.
When it was learned that the Germans were approaching Ghent, sixteen hundred civil guardsmen threw their rifles into the canal and, stripping off their uniforms, ran about in the pink and light-blue under-garments which the Belgians affect, frantically begging the townspeople to lend them civilian clothing.
But who's your prodeegy?" "One of Panizzi's Town Guardsmen. They put him on at the Convent with another sentry, their first experience of a night on guard.
In the wave of patriotic wrath and fervor that swept the land when the Maine was done to death in Havana Harbor, many and many a youth who has sneered at the State Guardsmen learned to wish that he too had given time and honest effort to the school of the soldier, for now, unless he had sufficient "pull" to win for him a staff position, his only hope was in the ranks.
Captain Douglas, rushed down from the Castle to the scene of action; but, for all the noise and hubbub that these caused in the street, the combat had become so close and inveterate that numbers of both sides were taken prisoners fighting hand to hand, and could scarcely be separated when the guardsmen and soldiers had them by the necks.
Leaving her for awhile, my father and I consulted with the leader of the guardsmen, and it was decided that the Countess, my father, and I should pass the night at the tower, the weather being warm and clear. The guardsmen would return with their prisoners to the scene of their recent battle, where much was to be put to rights.
The first time I went to Scheveningen I took a walk on those dunes which have been so often painted by artists, the only heights on the immense Dutch plain that intercept the view rebellious children of the sea, whose progress they oppose, being at the same time the prisoners and the guardsmen of Holland.
It was then that Groslow uttered the cry which the guardsmen heard from their boat. "What is the matter?" demanded Mordaunt, emerging from the hatchway, his torch in his hand, and rushing towards the stern. "The matter is, that your enemies have escaped you. They have cut the rope, and saved themselves in the boat."
You go 500 leagues without accident, while I go only to Vincennes, three-fourths of a league, and narrowly escape assassination by the way." "Oh! bah!" "I will tell you about it, my friend; I am having it written. Without my Forty-five guardsmen I should have been a dead man." "Truly! where did it take place?" "You mean, where was it to have taken place?" "Yes." "At Bel-Esbat."
He's getting feeble, but his mind is as clear as ever, and his heart well, his heart has never grown old." "William Adolphus Turnpike, Epstein, retired comedian, Tommy Watson, auctioneer," said Whimple softly, and then looking up he found Watson regarding him with a whimsical smile. "Us three, and no more Amen, as the Three Guardsmen used to say," Tommy said.
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