I see the color and the swiftness of it all, and feel its thrill, the strength and tenseness of it all.

And again I feel, as though it were to-day, the high, keen, pleasant resolution which came to me.

We had women with us.
Whether this young woman was now to die or not, none of us men would see it happen.
They came on, massed as I have said, to within about two hundred and fifty yards, then swung out around us, their horse line rippling up over the broken ground apparently as easily as it had gone on the level floor of the valley.

Still we made no volley fire.

I rejoiced to see the cool pallor of Belknap's face, and saw him brave and angry to the core.