The Last of the Mohicans

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After the principal shock of the knowledge had a little decreased, gossip was spread through the dug in camp, which extended along the edge of the Hudson, framing a chain of outworks to the body of the fortification itself, that a picked separation of fifteen hundred men was to leave, with the day break, for William Henry, the post at the northern furthest point of the portage. That which from the start was just talk, before long became conviction, as requests went from the quarters of the president to the few corps he had chosen for this administration, to get ready for their fast flight. All questions with respect to the expectation of Webb currently disappeared, and an hour or two of rushed strides and restless countenances succeeded. The fledgling in the military craftsmanship flew from highlight point, impeding his own arrangements by the overabundance of his rough and to some degree distempered energy; while the more drilled veteran made his courses of action with a thought that hated each appearance of flurry; however his calm lineaments and on edge eye adequately deceived that he had no exceptionally solid expert relish for the, so far, untried and feared fighting of the wild. Finally the sun set in a surge of greatness, behind the inaccessible western slopes, and as murkiness drew its cloak around the isolated recognize the hints of arrangement decreased; the last light at last vanished from the log lodge of some official; the trees cast their more profound shadows over the hills and the undulating stream, and a quietness before long invaded the camp, as profound as that which reigned in the tremendous woods by which it was environed.