230 THE BATTLE ()l<^ INKEHMAN. CHAP, it appeared that the only force which well could ' be used for this vital purpose was the body of zdPenod. 4()Q q^qq remaining under Cathcart. Sir George, with this force in hand, was upon a salient bend of the crest overhanging the Tchernaya valley, yet commanding a view towards the north, when his interview with the Duke of Cambridge took place. The Duke, riding up to Sir George, strongly urged him to move his troops to the left and support the Guards. Cathcart seemed for a moment quite Instances of willing to act in the direction required ; but pre- H.R.H. with '^ -1 > r Cathcart to scutly, with a Small double field -glass — he was induce him _ ° to act in the a uear-sifflited man — he be^an to gaze earnestly required ° . . direction, upou the steep, hanging groimd before him where some troops of the Selinghinsk regiment were making one of their efforts to turn the right flank of the Guards. Then all at once he became ani- mated, and assured heart and soul by one of those mocking inspirations which resemble the false Oneiros — the 'pernicious ' and yet ' divine' dream.* He declared he would go down and attack the His own troops he saw operating on the right front of the andhFs^°" Saudbag Battery. In other words, he would resistance to dcsccud from the heights to attack the extreme left of the Eussian army. This imported that being on strong heights with the enemy's left wing outstretched before him, he would go down and make war against the tip of its outermost feather instead of striking the pinion. The Duke of Cambridge strongly combated the idea, and at
- O{ios—6fios. 'Pernicious,' because fraught with mischief
— 'divine,' because sent from on high.
