Excerpt from Beauty and the Beast, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.