Cortlandt, in his brilliant zouave uniform, stood up and stretched his arms until the scarlet chevrons on the blue sleeves wrinkled into jagged lightning.

But this restraint, this business-like entrenching reminded them only too forcibly of encounters with other men of the Franksthe white-clad Spanish infantry from Rio de Oro, the dreaded piou-pious, zouaves, and Légion Etrangère of the French.

He died as she came upa big, pallid, red-headed zouave, whose blanket, soaked with blood, bore dreadful witness of his end.

I know those fighters with women's mouths and boys' cheeks; one such from the circle of my own friends, sixteen years old, slipped away from his nursery and dashed in under an assumed name among the red-legged Zouaves, in whose company he got an ornamental bullet-mark in one of the earliest conflicts of the war.

He died as she came upa big, pallid, red-headed zouave, whose blanket, soaked with blood, bore dreadful witness of his end.

But this restraint, this business-like entrenching reminded them only too forcibly of encounters with other men of the Franksthe white-clad Spanish infantry from Rio de Oro, the dreaded piou-pious, zouaves, and Légion Etrangère of the French.

don't you perfec'ly ridiculous Zouaves know that you'll both be back in New York befo' I amand all tired out keeping up with the pace yo' general sets you?"