True Soldier Gentlemen (Napoleonic War 1) - Plot & Excerpts
As it was June, the dawn came early and a good number of them had not slept at all. Billy Pringle, who had drunk heavily and dozed for just a couple of hours, looked no worse than usual – he rarely showed great enthusiasm for the early morning anyway. Redman looked unnaturally pale and red eyed, and Hanley only a little better. Williams had drunk only two glasses of wine – the most he felt that he cope with for he loathed the taste, but he suffered in order to be polite. He had not slept a wink, too full of the thrill of dancing with Miss MacAndrews. Then his doubts had returned, and he cringed as he remembered how little he had said, knowing that she must have thought him dull and uninteresting, and that she had condescended to be his partner only out of pity. His spirits revived a little as they marched, and his fatigue vanished as the familiar rhythm of the march took over. The men were in good spirits, and once they were a discreet distance from the village they took a delight in singing cheerfully, beginning with an ironic rendering of ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me’.
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