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One of the 28th

CHAPTER XVII
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I dare say if I had found any partners and gone in for dancing I should have thought but little about it; but standing looking on the thoughts came.

I think you were right, Conway, not to go." "Have you heard any news of what has taken place to-day ?" "Yes.

I was standing by the colonel when Picton came up to him and said: "'There's been sharp fighting on the frontier.

Zieten gave the French a deal of trouble, and only fell back about six miles.

The other corps, except Bulow's, will all join them to-night.
"'It is a thousand pities that Zieten did not send off a mounted messenger to us directly he became engaged.


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