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BATTLE OF THE ALMA. 303 battery, and covering his left-front with several CHAP. squadrons of hussars. By this wise and soldierly ' attitude, Kiriakoff masked the confusion into JroVuled which the rest of the Czar's army had been thrown, Aiues^'^y and caused the Allied commanders to believe that attiiudt*^" they had still a formidable enemy in their front. ISTot only did Kiriakoff thus face round, but he He moves even caused the body of cavalry which he had on some liis left to move forward; and it happened that "'^^'^' this advance of the Eussian hussars brought them down to a spot which was near the ground where Lord Cardigan rode with his squadrons. It seems, however, that there was an intervening bend or rise in the formation of the ground which pre- vented these two hostile bodies of cavahy from being visible the one to the other. Lord Eaglan, with some of his Staff, had ridden Lord forward to this part of the field. He met the v^faSoa advance of the enemy's squadrons with an almost cold gaze. The joyous animation with which, from the summit of the knoll, he had watched and governed the battle — this now had passed. He wore the look — men came to know it too well before he died — the look which used to show that he was feeling the stress of the French Alliance, and dissembling the pain of his anger. XLIII. The world was old enough to know that in order to be made to yield its natural fruits, a victory ought to be followed up; and that, in