The Phantom Army: Being the Story of a Man And a Mystery
The Phantom Army: Being the Story of a Man And a Mystery
Max Pemberton
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We . must beware the woods. Christ Jesus, give me sight again ! It is all dark, and my face is cold." He stared helplessly into the night, for a film was upon his eyes and the lights were whirling round and round the valley as devils of defeat dancing before him. His fatuous belief that some miracle wrought of God would yet save him was real to the last. Had he not promised to make his children kings? Did not the Corsican conquer France with a few rounds of grape shot? He ground his teeth when ...he remem- bered his pride of old time ; the glorious days of his supremacy on the hills; the terrible rides of the White Hussars to victory assured. When at length the trance passed from his eyes, and he could look upon his comrades again, the terror of the spectacle froze his heart. From every side now the army of that Spain he would have freed poured a raking fire upon the flying troop and the rabble which reeled after it. No minute passed but one, who yesterday had been a thinking man, rolled headlong from his saddle and fell to the dust from which he came.
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