[White Lies by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookWhite Lies CHAPTER XXII 1/6
A few wounded soldiers of the brigade lay still till dusk.
Then they crept back to the trenches.
These had all been struck down or disabled short of the bastion.
Of those that had taken the place no one came home. Raynal, after the first stupefaction, pressed hard and even angrily for an immediate assault on the whole Prussian line.
Not they.
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