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A SAD CONCLUSION. The interruption to the story was caused by Gervais Monjoy observing that before us rose the ivy-covered ruins of an ancient schloss, which seemed to inform him, as he said, that in…
THE FROZEN FORD. By a narrow path between leafless woods, I proceeded for two miles in the direction indicated by Monjoy, and then saw before me the Lahn, a stream which rises in the west of Germany,…
LAST OF THE EMERALD RING. The snow-flakes were thick and blinding; the roadway became less and less discernible as the white mantle of winter deepened; buried under it, shrubs, tall weeds, and everyt…
THE WHISPERED ORDER. In his rage, Bourgneuf, with each ironical bow, shook from his brigadier wig the white powder which he wore in great profusion. The danger was imminent; peril menaced me in front…
THE DEAD HUSSAR. "'Ods, sir, the hand o' Providence is in this!" exclaimed Hob, capering among the snow with renewed joy, but rather clumsily in his heavy jack boots; "and so…
ARNAUD DE PRICORBIN. When about twenty paces distant they halted, and as the evening was dusky cast about their muskets. Then Arnaud cried with a loud voice, " Qui va là? " Hob Elliot very …
THE HEIGHTS OF CORBACH. The allied British and Germans under Prince Ferdinand, though less numerous than the troops under the Duc de Broglie, were in fine fighting order, yet they prudently acted chi…
A NIGHT ATTACK. We were encamped at Warburg, when, in September, we received orders to hold ourselves in readiness to move on particular service, and at an hour's notice—a troublesome communicat…
IN LONDON AGAIN, Before I reached England, some changes had taken place of which we had as yet heard nothing in our camps and cantonments in Germany. The king had died in October; his grandson had be…
THE DRAWING-ROOM. A presentation at Court may be a very exciting thing to those who are unused to such scenes; but to me, nothing whatever could prove a source of excitement yet, for no man is more s…
