try: General
This ostentatiously speeding off, as if for attack on some important
place; General That, for attack on some other; all hands busy,--the
20,000 Russians not yet speeding, but seemingly just about to do
it,--and blank thunder so mixed with not blank, and scenic effect with
bitter reality, [Tempelhof, vi. 105-111.]--as was seldom seen before.
And no wisest Daun, not to speak of his O'Kellys and lieutenants, can,
for the life of him, say where the real attack is to be, or on what hand
to turn himself. Daun in person, I believe, is still at Tannhausen,
near the centre of this astonishing scene; five or six miles from any
practical part of it. And does order forward, hither, thither, masses of
force to support the De Ligne, the O'Kelly, among others,--but who can
tell what to support? Daun's lieutenants were alert some of them, others
less: General Guasco, for instance, who is in Schweidnitz, an alert
Commandant, with 12,000 picked men, was drawing out, of his own will,
with certain regiments to try Friedrich's rear: but a check was put on
him (some dangerous shake of the fist from afar), when he had to draw
in again. In general the O'Kelly supports sat gazing dubiously, and did
nothing for O'Kelly but roll back along with him, when the time came.
But let us first attend to Wied, and the Ludwigsdorf-Leuthmannsdorf
part.

Wied, divided into Three, is diligently pushing up on Ludwigsdorf by the
slacker eastern ascents; meets firm enough battalions, potent, dangerous
and resolute in their strong posts; but endeavors firmly to be more
dangerous than they. Dislodges everything, on his right, on his left;
comes in sight of the batteries and ranked masses atop, which seem to
him difficult indeed; flatly impossible, if tried on front; but always
some Colonel Lottum, or quick-eyed man, finds some little valley, little
hollow; gets at the Enemy side-wise and rear-wise; rushes on with fixed
bayonets, double-quick, to co-operate with the front: and, on the whole,
there are the best news from Wied, and we perceive he sees his way
through the affair.

Upon which, Mollendorf gets in motion, upon his specific errand.
Mollendorf has been surveying his ground a little, during the leisure
hour; especially examining what mode of passage there may be, and
looking for some road up those slacker western parts: has found no road,
but a kind of sheep track, which he thinks will do. Mollendorf, with all
energy, surmounting many difficu