It is not danger that I fear in the slightest, it is that horrible noise.

I know well enough that the moment the firing begins I shall be paralyzed.

My only hope is that at the last moment, if it comes to hand to hand fighting, I shall get my nerve." "I have no doubt you will," Wilson said warmly; "and when you do I would back you at long odds against any of us.

Ah, they are beginning." As he spoke there was a salvo of all the guns on the three Sepoy batteries.

Then a roar of musketry broke out round the house, and above it could be heard loud shouts.
"They are coming, Major," the Doctor shouted down from the roof; "the Sepoys are leading, and there is a crowd of natives behind them." Those lying in the middle of the curve of the horseshoe soon caught sight of the enemy advancing tumultuously towards the breach.