Under the hedges that lined the field there were soldiers like ghosts; our own wagons, with the sanitars walking beside them, moved across the ground without even the creak of a wheel.

Semyonov was to meet us in an hour's time at a certain crossroad.

I was given the command of the party.

I was now, in literal truth, breathlessly excited.

My heart was beating in my breast like some creature who makes running leaps at escape.