"Is the regiment ordered away ?" "Not yet, lads; but it may be.

I have just seen the colonel.

He dined with the duke at three o'clock.

There were a lot of officers there, and the Prince of Orange, who had just come in from the outposts for the ball, told him that the Prussians at Thuin were attacked this morning, and that a heavy cannonade was going on when he left.

Orders were issued half an hour ago for the whole of the troops to be in readiness to march at a moment's notice.