Beauty and the Beast - A Novel #221946

Blank consternation was the first result of the lawless defiance. The deed was such a gross breach of military discipline, such an unseemly violation of authority, that the poor Colonel gasped, and could hardly believe his senses, While the Junior Officers and soldiers gaped in harmony with their senior's gasp; and for an instant every energy was paralyzed. Thwaite did not take any advantage of the second's pause to attempt, a flight, which would have been as mad as What had gone before it. He stood at ease with the angry grin still on his face, till the Whole company recovered themselves. He was put under arrest a second time, without offering any resistance and marched back to durance, while the dis missed soldiers formed into groups and dis cussed the event Of the day, filling the barrack yard With subdued commotion.