Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 406
was received in the city his onethought was to flee from the wrath of the dreadedNapoleon; and to this end he paid the shrewd Mrs.Crawley an outrageous price for her pair of horses.But greater events were to happen. Three days laterthe decisive battle was fought at Waterloo, ten milessouth of… … HERE never was, since the daysof Darius, such a brilliant trainof camp-followers as hung roundthe train of the Duke of Welling-tons army in the Low Countries in1815; and led it dancing and feastr~ ing, as it were, up to the very brinkof battle. A certain ball which a nobleduchess gave at Brussels…
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