You passed within thirty yards of me.

Our guns opened so heavily on them, after you had got through, that I thought it prudent to keep quiet a little longer before I made a move; and the result was that the Austrian cavalry, as it came along in the pursuit of our men, picked me up.
"Do you know where we are bound for ?" "Prague in the first instance, but beyond that I cannot say.

I suppose it will depend a good deal on what takes place now.

There is no doubt the Saxons will have to surrender; and I suppose that, anyhow, they will send us farther away, unless indeed there is an exchange of prisoners." A long day's ride took them to Prague.

The news of the battle had been sent off the night before, and as it had been reported as a victory, the inhabitants were in a state of great delight.