Recollections of an Artillery Officer: Including Scenes and Adventures in Ireland, America, Flanders and FranceR. Bentley, 1836 |
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Page 271 - ... a fitting representative in the Rump parliament. His dress consisted of a coarse reddish-brown cloth coat with huge metal buttons, a waistcoat of deer skin and trowsers of thick dreadnought. This singular biped came up to me with a strange shambling gait ; and, after clearing his mouth of a quid, followed by two or three copious expectorations, he with a strong nasal twang thus addressed me: " ' I say, you Britisher, I calculate you "re a doctor ?' " ' No, 1 am not; but, if you want a surgeon,'...
Page 273 - I found that our advance had interrupted the fair one in her study of natural history, a volume of Buffon was lying open on her pillow; and it was evident that her particular attention had been directed to the domestic economy of the baboon and monkey tribe, slips of paper marking the highly colored portraits of these charming subjects for a lady's contemplation. Hall later returned to the house on January 1 to rest ' 'on a heap of dried pea-straw in one of the outhouses.
Page 295 - ... mortifying defeat had again attended the British arms, and the loss in men and officers was frightfully disastrous. I was the unwilling spectator of numerous amputations ; and on all sides nothing was heard but the piteous cries of my poor countrymen, undergoing various operations. The ninety-third regiment had...
Page 9 - ... that the likeness would be perfect if a certain lock of hair was disposed in the way his lordship always wore it : this she offered to arrange.
Page 235 - A massive gold chain encircled her neck in numerous folds, and attached to it hung the portrait of a naval officer. " That the lady had passed the grand climacteric was evident from the absence of flesh upon her face, neck and arms ; still there was a fascination in her manner, that at once banished from your thoughts her African origin. " The moment I entered, she graciously favoured me by an inclination of her head, seeming to imply, ' Don't let my presence drive you away.
Page 236 - That the lady had passed the grand climacteric was evident from the absence of flesh upon her face, neck and arms ; still there was a fascination in her manner, that at once banished from your thoughts her African origin. " The moment I entered, she graciously favoured me by an inclination of her head, seeming to imply, ' Don't let my presence drive you away.' Fletcher introduced me in due form, and I learnt that I had the felicity of being made known to no less a personage than Lady Rodney ! " '...
Page 237 - ... him wid ribands bery often. Oh, he really clever body ! But no use cry now, he is gone to glory, up in heben — me go to him 'fore long — see him again, me sure. Hope to Goramighty he no cut off him pig-tail, cause me know him mong a hundred, 'twas such a big un. Well, 1 go shore. See you again to-morrow. Good by, genelmen.
Page 295 - ... cannonade. Soon after our arrival, the batteries opened their fire, and our shots appeared to have effect. . . .The brave and much loved General Gibbs had been conveyed to La Ronde's mortally wounded. With his dying breath he accused Colonel Mullins of having caused the ill-fortune of the day. . . Colonel Dickson left me at La Ronde's to answer any inquiries made by officers of artillery, and to give any instructions required. The scene now presented at La Ronde's was one I shall never forget;...
Page 271 - I think worthy of description. He was a young man, of about two or three-and-twenty, good-looking, but pale from a recent wound, indicated by his arm being tied up in a pocket-handkerchief, somewhat the worse for use ; his hair was dark, and long enough to reach his shoulders ; he wore a high conically- shaped hat, which, from its napless state, had, perhaps, been handed down in his family from the days of the arch-hypocrite Oliver, and worn now as an appropriate covering, for one who would have...
Page 237 - Me take him off, sar, rectly, and show him wid pleasure,' and she unclasped her golden cable — ' dere, sar, dat's picture of my dear Lord Rodney ; he gib him to me wid his own hands in de year 82, just after he tump de French. Me bery piccaniny little ting den, but Lord Rodney lub me dearly, and make me his lady. — Dere you see him look you full in de face — you not able see his back. I know ebery bit of him sweet figure ; and by Gor, I tink I neber saw a man wid such a large pig- tail in all...