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"But weren't you dreadfully burnt?"
"Oh, miss, yez should have seen us! We was blacker thin the divil
himsilf. Hardly one av us but didn't have the hair burnt off the part
his cap didn't cover; an', as for eyelashes, an' mustaches, an'
blisters, no one thought av them the next day. Shure, the whole company
was in bed, except them as couldn't lie easy."
"And Mr. Stirling?"
"Shure, don't yez know about him?"
"No."
"Why, he was dreadful burnt, an' the doctors thought it would be blind
he'd be; but he went to Paris, an' they did somethin' to him there that
saved him. Oh, miss, the boys were nearly crazy wid fear av losin' him.
They'd rather be afther losin' the regimental cat."
Peter had been tempted to interrupt two or three times, but it was so
absorbing to watch Leonore's face, and its changing expression, as,
unconscious of his presence, she listened to Dennis, that Peter had not
the heart to do it. But now Watts spoke up.
"Do you hear that, Peter? There's value for you! You're better than the
cat.


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