[Life’s Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy]@TWC D-Link bookLife’s Little Ironies CHAPTER V 6/180
The two victims fell, one upon his face across his coffin, the other backwards. As the volley resounded there arose a shriek from the wall of Dr.Grove's garden, and some one fell down inside; but nobody among the spectators without noticed it at the time.
The two executed Hussars were Matthaus Tina and his friend Christoph.
The soldiers on guard placed the bodies in the coffins almost instantly; but the colonel of the regiment, an Englishman, rode up and exclaimed in a stern voice: 'Turn them out--as an example to the men!' The coffins were lifted endwise, and the dead Germans flung out upon their faces on the grass.
Then all the regiments wheeled in sections, and marched past the spot in slow time.
When the survey was over the corpses were again coffined, and borne away. Meanwhile Dr.Grove, attracted by the noise of the volley, had rushed out into his garden, where he saw his wretched daughter lying motionless against the wall.
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