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"Yes. I have a thousand strange adventures to tell you of; but I will reserve them for the halt, which I suppose will be at the castle of Zagala. But meanwhile, let me hear the regimental news."
"Defer that till the halt also,--talking is dry work. A few rank and file were knocked on the head at Fuente del Maistre; but the officers, you may see, are all present. We feared you were on your route for France, when we heard that Dombrouski's dragoons were in Merida."
"A daring deed it was, for a handful of men to advance thus."
"Daring indeed!"
"But then they were Poles,--and the Poles are no common troops. Sad work, however, they have made at Merida. Every shop and house in the Plaza has been gutted and destroyed."
"More shame to the citizens! A city containing five or six thousand inhabitants, should have made some resistance to so small a party."
"'Twas a pity to destroy so perfect a relic of antiquity."
"It was dire necessity."
"Did you see any thing of our friends in the Calle de Guadiana,--the house at the corner of the Plaza?"
"Clappourknuis? That has a Scottish sort of sound."
To the political or historical reader, the names of the marquis and his brother will be familiar. The house of Laurieston stands within four miles from Edinburgh, on the south bank of the Forth.
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