"We have heard firing in our rear for some time, and we were afraid that things had gone badly with us, after all." He at once gave orders that the troops behind the village were to take up a position to resist any attack made in that direction.
Desmond dismounted, as did Mike, and the latter took the two horses, fastened them to a tree, and then, with Desmond's scarf, bound his arm firmly against his side.
"We have made a mess of it entirely, your honour," he said, "and have got a terrible bating.

Sure we were lucky in getting here.
Faith, I thought we were caught when you were hailed." "It was a narrow escape, Mike; and if they had waited till I had got a little nearer, and had seen my uniform, I must have surrendered." "It seems to me that we are like rats in a trap, Mr.Kennedy." "Something like it, Mike; but it is hard if we can't get through them, in the dark." "That we will do, sure enough," Mike said confidently; "but which way should we go ?" "That I can't tell you.

You see, they are in strength in front, Marlborough and Eugene are on the left and partly behind us, and the troops you saw come across the hills are somewhere in the rear.

If it were daylight, not a man of us would escape; but as it is, it will be hard if we cannot make our way through.
"What I am thinking about chiefly, at present, is the safety of O'Sullivan, O'Neil, and d'Eyncourt.

They ought to have been here as soon as we were.