Colin Campbell, had charged at Lucknow, inspired by that stirring air. the kind that carries a man off in an instant or keeps himlingering along and suffering for twenty years or so. He had in reality changed little; for ageneration he had thought the sort of things which he now, with advancedyears and a different audience, felt warranted in uttering openly. There is a fine, stately flightof steps--a really royal stair--leading from this entrance down into Peacock Alley.
There was a dearth of the modern improvements which Americanshave learned to regard as a necessity, and the plumbing, such as it was,was not always in order. There were the New Englandhills to climb, and then he found that he tired easily, and thatweariness sometimes brought on the pain. Of that lightsome band Will Pitts and JohnBriggs still remained, with half a dozen others--schoolmates of the lessadventurous sort. Atthe front where the chief banner flew there was a large and showy tent,with showy guards on duty, and about it were some other tents of a swellkind.
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