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Page 148
... Charles had seen some five or six grey battalions come swinging out , the word was given to mount , and he saw no more , but contemplated the tails of horses . And at the same moment the guns began an irregular fire on their right ...
... Charles had seen some five or six grey battalions come swinging out , the word was given to mount , and he saw no more , but contemplated the tails of horses . And at the same moment the guns began an irregular fire on their right ...
Page 149
... Charles saw with his own eyes , and what , therefore , bears upon the story I am telling you . That was the only man he saw killed at that time , though the whole brigade suffered rather heavily by the Russian cannonade at that spot ...
... Charles saw with his own eyes , and what , therefore , bears upon the story I am telling you . That was the only man he saw killed at that time , though the whole brigade suffered rather heavily by the Russian cannonade at that spot ...
Page 154
... Charles left watching the great arch overhead , and the creeping shadows , and the patch of light on the wall , which shaped itself into a faint rhomboid at noon , and crept on till it defined itself into a perfect square at sundown ...
... Charles left watching the great arch overhead , and the creeping shadows , and the patch of light on the wall , which shaped itself into a faint rhomboid at noon , and crept on till it defined itself into a perfect square at sundown ...
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