Your bastion is to be stormed this afternoon previous to the general assault.

Why, how is this?
you don't seem enchanted ?" "I am not." "Why, it was you who pressed for the assault." "At the right time, general, not the wrong.

In five days I undertake to blow that bastion into the air.

To assault it now would be to waste our men." General Raimbaut thought this excess of caution a great piece of perversity in Achilles.

They were alone, and he said a little peevishly,-- "Is not this to blow hot and cold on the same thing ?" "No, general," was the calm reply.