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The Cornet of Horse

CHAPTER 13: Blenheim
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We will just sit down against the wall till morning.

Before we do, though, we will look round, outside the hut.

If it has been lately inhabited, there may be a few vegetables or something the horses can munch." Nothing, however, was found.
"We will take it by turns to watch, Hugh.

I will take first watch; when I am sleepy I will wake you." Without a word Hugh unstrapped his cloak, felt for a level piece of ground in the hut, and with his cloak for his pillow, was soon asleep.
Rupert sat down on the log of a tree, that lay outside the hut, and leaned against its wall.

For two hours he sat, and thought over the adventures and the prospects of the war, and then gradually a drowsiness crept over him, and he fell fast asleep.
His waking was not pleasant.


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