Name: Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II (of II)
Author: Charles James Lever
ISBN: 978-9389614961

Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II (of II)

By Charles James Lever 28 Sep, 2020

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Excerpt......... “What is it, Minette?” said I, for the third time, as I saw her lean her head from out the narrow casement, and look down into the valley beside the river; “what do you see there?” “I see a regiment of infantry coming along the road from Ulm,” said she, after a pause; “and now I perceive the lancers are following them, and the artillery too. Ah! and farther again, I see a great cloud of dust. Mère de Ciél! how tired and weary they all look! It surely cannot be a march in retreat; and, now that I think of it, they have no baggage, nor any wagons with them.” “That was a bugle call, Minette! Did you not hear it?” “Yes, it's a halt for a few minutes. Poor fellows! they are sadly exhausted; they cannot even reach the side of the way, but are lying down on the very road. I can bear it no longer. I must find out what it all means.” So saying, she threw round her a mantle which, Spanish fashion, she wore over her head, and hurried from the room. Less

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