. A history of the Indian mutiny and of the disturbances which accompanied it among the civil population;. haunted by the recollection of the horrors which they hadjust witnessed, and now, in the moment of inaction, unable toforget the loss of their fallen comrades, were oppressed by adeep gloom. No sound was heard in the encampment save themelancholy notes of the Highland pipes which accompanied theinterment of the dead. The General, as he sat at dinner withhis son, musing upon the difficulties which lay before him, andsilently anticipating the possible failure of his personal am-bitions and
. A history of the Indian mutiny and of the disturbances which accompanied it among the civil population;. haunted by the recollection of the horrors which they hadjust witnessed, and now, in the moment of inaction, unable toforget the loss of their fallen comrades, were oppressed by adeep gloom. No sound was heard in the encampment save themelancholy notes of the Highland pipes which accompanied theinterment of the dead. The General, as he sat at dinner withhis son, musing upon the difficulties which lay before him, andsilently anticipating the possible failure of his personal am-bitions and the doom which might be in store for his soldiers,seemed to have lost all his old confidence. But his weaknesswas of short duration. The exultation of victory was gone:but the path of duty was still open; and, though he might notbe suffered to share in the triumph, the cause for which hefought was just, and must prevail. Turning to his son, heexclaimed, If the worst comes to the worst, we can but diewith our swords in our hands. ^ 1 Marsliman, p. 314. 2 /j^ pp, To face pcuie ZOO. V\,. MM- \ %^.. W. ^^ <Ahereth£.Vo\ ]/mI- ihe. erLemys C/ayaby orvr-vad,taker^J:t^iiitXf village AA75<^/X,v1LLAGE
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