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This old Captain de Renal had served before the Revolution in the Duke of Orleans's regiment of infantry, and, when he went to Paris, had had the right of entry into that Prince's drawing-rooms.
Like your noble ancestors who followed Saint Louis to the Crusade, you ought, for those hundred and twenty thousand francs, to let us see at least a regiment, a company, shall I say a half-company, were it composed only of fifty men ready to fight, and devoted to the good cause, alive or dead.
He shall start within twenty-four hours, and report himself at Strasbourg, where his regiment is quartered.
The regiment to which Captain Wharton belonged formed part of the permanent garrison of the city; and the knowledge of the presence of his son was no little relief to the father, in his unceasing meditations on his absent daughters.
"And I, sir, am Captain Wharton, of his Majesty's 60th regiment of foot," returned Henry, bowing stiffly, and recovering his natural manner.
Only one regiment of regular horse was sent from the mother country, during the struggle.
"Our troop was covering the flank of his regiment when he fell, and I rode over his body myself during the day.
"It would be easy to hide a regiment behind those rocks," returned the trooper, dismounting, and taking the stone in his hand.
"You will please to remember, Captain John Lawton, that I am not the riding master of the regiment - nor a drill sergeant - nor a crazy cornet; no, sir - and I speak it with a due respect for the commission of the Continental Congress - nor an inconsiderate captain, who regards his own life as little as that of his enemies.
The consequences of his treason had been avoided, it is true, by a lucky order from Washington, which withdrew the regiment a short time before the British appeared to cut it off, but still the crime was the same.
"A priest, say you! - is he a hard drinker - a real camp-idler - a fellow to breed a famine in a regiment?
"I'll swear that was a human pistol, and one from our regiment.
"You are said," continued the president, "to be Henry Wharton, a captain in his Britannic Majesty's 60th regiment of foot."
"And was this the first of his visits out of the uniform of his regiment?"
Towards noon, a regiment of militia, that were quartered on the banks of the river, moved to the ground in front of the house that held our heroine and her family, and deliberately pitched their tents, with the avowed intention of remaining until the following morning, to give solemnity and effect to the execution of a British spy.
"I suppose, by this time, my love, that you are well acquainted with the maneuvers of a regiment," said Miss Peyton.
"What are you at there, scoundrels?" cried Lieutenant Mason, as he came in sight from a walk he had taken to sneer at the evening parade of the regiment of militia.
On their right, the regiment of foot, that we have already mentioned, lay, in tents; and the sentinels who guarded their encampment were to be seen moving with measured tread under the hills themselves.
But homeward, or we shall have them rolling stones upon our heads, and the royal gazettes teeming with an account of a rebel regiment routed by two loyalists.
"Something must be done, and that speedily," observed the commanding officer of the regiment, which lay encamped before the house.
A scornful smile lowered about the lip of the trooper as he guided Roanoke with a skillful hand through the windings of their ranks; and when the word was given to march, he turned the flank of the regiment, and followed close in the rear.
"Perhaps you have a son among the soldiers," said his companion, with a milder demeanor, and an air of kindness; "if so, tell me his name and regiment, and I will take you to him."
In a short time they joined the regiment to which the officers belonged, when the captain, squeezing the stranger's hand, earnestly begged that he would make inquiries after him on the following morning, and that he might see him in his own tent.
"I doubt it's a false alarm," said he."Maybe I'd ha' done well to bide where I was; but now I've come so far, I'll break my fast with the regiment."
And yourself, I hope that your knee is better, and that you will soon have your regiment given you."
"I am to join my regiment as soon as I can; and we shall be over yonder in a month, and in Paris, maybe, before another one is over."
The regiment to which our friend had been appointed was the 71st Highland Light Infantry, which wore the red coat and the trews, and had its depot in Glasgow town.
The 95th were a rifle regiment, and had dark green coats instead of red.
None of us dared move our heads, but every eye in the regiment whisked round, and there we saw an officer with the cockade of a general's aide-de-camp thundering down the road as hard as a great dapple-grey horse could carry him.
We got into the barns at this village for shelter, and there we found two stragglers--one from a kilted regiment, and the other a man of the German Legion, who had a tale to tell that was as dreary as the weather.
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