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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be
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continuing.
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Les Miserable by Victor Hugo
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chapter 14 the last
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square several squares of
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the Guard motionless amid this stream of the
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defeat, as rocks and running water held
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their own until night. Night
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came death also
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they awaited that double shadow, and
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invincible allowed themselves to be enveloped
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therein. Each regiment,
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isolated from the rest, and having no bond with the
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army now shattered in every part,
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died alone. They had taken up
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position for this final action, some
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on the heights of Ross Homme, others on the plain of
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Mont Saint Jean. There,
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abandoned, vanquished, terrible,
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those gloomy squares endured their death throes
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in formidable fashion. Ulm
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Wagram, Jenna Friedland died with
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them at, twilight towards
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the foot of the plateau of Mont Saint John,
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in that fatal valley, at the foot of that declivity which
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the cuirasses had ascended, now
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inundated by the masses of the English, under the
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converging fires of the victorious hostile cavalry,
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under a frightful density of projectiles.
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The square fought on. It was
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commanded by an obscure officer named Cambron.
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At each discharge the square diminished and
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replied. It replied to the grape shot with
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the fusillade continually
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contracting its four walls. The
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fugitives, pausing breathless for a moment in the
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distance, listened in the darkness to that
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gloomy and ever decreasing thunder.
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When this legion had been reduced to a handful,
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when nothing was left of their flag but a rag,
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when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no longer
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anything but clubs, when the heap of
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corpses was larger than the group of survivors,
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there reigned among the conquerors
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around those men dying so sublimely a sort of sacred
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terror, and the english artillery, taking
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breath, became silent.
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This furnished a sort of respite. These
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combatants had around them something in the nature of a swarm of
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specters, silhouettes of men on
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horseback, the black profiles of
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cannon, the white sky viewed through
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wheels and gun carriages. The colossal
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deaths head, which the hero saw constantly through the
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smoke in the depths of the battle, advanced
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upon them and gazed at them through the
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shades of twilight. They could hear the pieces being loaded.
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The matches, all lighted like the eyes of tigers at
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night, formed a circle round their heads.
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All the lint stocks of the english batteries approached the cannons,
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and then, with emotion holding the supreme moment suspended
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above these men, an english
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general, Colville, according to some,
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Maitland, according to others, shouted to them,
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surrender, brave frenchmen,
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Cabron replied,
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thank you for joining byte at a time books today while we
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wrote a.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Byte of one of your favorite classics
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>> Brie Carlisle: My name is Brie Carlisle, and I.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Hope you come back tomorrow for the next bite of,
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Les Miserable.
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>> Speaker A: Take it chapter by chapter.
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>> Speaker D: One.
