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Now, entering into Weyrother's plan, Prince Andrew considered

possible contingencies and formed new projects such as might call

for his rapidity of perception and decision.

To the left down below in the mist, the musketry fire of unseen

forces could be heard. It was there Prince Andrew thought the

fight would concentrate. "There we shall encounter difficulties,

and there," thought he, "I shall be sent with a brigade or

division, and there, standard in hand, I shall go forward and

break whatever is in front of me."

He could not look calmly at the standards of the passing

battalions. Seeing them he kept thinking, "That may be the very

standard with which I shall lead the army."