"Eyre's Brigade: of the Third Division. Told off to attack the Creek Battery. We have carried the cemetery, but what else we've done I have not the least idea."
"Haven't you? Well, I'll tell you. You've taken Sebastopol."
"Not quite, I'm afraid."
"You're well inside the fortress anyway. I can tell you that for certain. Just above is the place in which I was kept a prisoner."
"Is that a fact? By Jove! what tremendous luck!"
"But can you hold your ground?"
"Eyre will. He'll hold on by his eyelids till reinforcements come up, never fear. And the French have promised us support."
"Is yours the only attack?"
"Dear no! The French have gone in at the Malakoff, and our people at the Redan."
"How has it gone—have you any idea?" asked McKay, anxiously.