The wound throbbed, "What is the matter, Mrs.Paige ?" inquired Captain Hallam anxiously.

"Are you faint ?" She opened her eyes and smiled in pretence of surprise at such a question; and Hallam muttered: "I thought you seemed rather pale all of a sudden." Then he brightened up and went gaily on with what he had been saying: "We've got nine full companies already, and the 10th, K, is an independent company which we're taking in to complete our organisation.

Colonel Arran and I stopped in Philadelphia to inspect Colonel Rush's regiment of lancers--the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry--because the French officers on McClellan's staff have put it into his head that he needs lancers----" "Is Colonel Arran's regiment to carry lances ?" interrupted Ailsa in surprise.
Hallam nodded, laughing: "We recruited as light cavalry, armed with sabre and pistol, but General McClellan has ordered that we carry the lance in addition.

The department had none to issue until the foreign samples arrived.

We are ordered to carry a lance of the Austrian pattern, nine feet long with an eleven-inch, three-edged blade; the staff of Norway fir about an inch and a quarter through, with ferrule and counter poise at the heel.