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THE WHITE FLAG. The provisions, procured at so much danger and with such loss, were a seasonable, but scanty relief; for nineteen waggon-loads of flour and butter went but a short way among the star…
RETRIBUTION. Some days after this, I was hastening from the Frankendör towards the residence of Ernestine, when, at a corner of the Bourse, where the merchants were wont to meet, but where the rank …
THE JESUIT. None save those who have been circumstanced as we unfortunately were, in a city besieged and reduced almost to the last extremity, can fully appreciate the value of the prize I brought w…
THE BLACK LAKE OF STUBBENKAMER. Without asking permission (for I knew that at such a time it would not be acceded to me), I selected Phadrig Mhor, and six of our musketeers who were western islemen,…
THE BLACK PLAGUE. Believing that Bandolo had perished at the moment he disappeared over the Stubbenkamer, we descended the Kœningstuhl, and took the direct road along the granite isthmus towards Ber…
THE PLAGUE SPOT. Next day I received a slight wound in the left shoulder from the ball of a carbine; for the Imperialists were now close upon the Frankendör, the whole defence of which was still com…
LAST ASSAULT OF STRALSUND. I found that a salvo had completely breached the curtain of the bastion at the Frankendör; that the debris of fallen masonry, wooden platforms, cannon and their carriages…
THE SUN SHINES AGAIN. We entered the room where she lay, and the stillness of death was there. We approached her with reverence; and when I stretched my hand towards the veil that covered her, it wa…
