The group, including the army attachment, is now positioned on a ridge above the Tchernaya valley, opposite some ruins. They are a little more than two miles from the Mount at Inkerman, where a battle is raging, and which the attachment may be forced to defend should the commander, Lord Raglan, call them to do so. Pompey Jones and Potter have a conversation in which they decide that willpower and concentration will ensure survival. Jones determinedly states that he will be a survivor. Once he gets out of this, he says to himself, he will marry a good woman, grow old surrounded by his children, and that no child of his will ever have to beg, as he once did.
Myrtle and Potter have moved in to.....
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