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They were sitting in a corner of the ante-room, and before them passed a continuous stream of the busy life of the war, civilians, officers, badged workers, elderly orderlies in pathetic bits of uniform that might have dated from 1870, wheeling packages in and out, groups talking of the business of the organization, here and there a blue-vested young lieutenant and a blue-overalled packer, talking it did not need God to know of what.
One of her present enthusiasms was her 'Kipling Brothers, the boys' band enlisted under the motto, 'I saw a hundred men on the road to Delhi, and they were all my brothers. She believed that there was no salvation for a boy outside of a band. Banded somehow he must be, then badged, beribboned, bannered, and bye-lawed. From the moment a boy's mother had left off her bye-lows, Mrs.
And now General Grant, arm-in-arm with Major Carter Harrison, stepped out on the platform, followed two and two by the badged and uniformed reception committee. General Grant was looking exactly as he had looked upon that trying occasion of ten years before all iron and bronze self-possession. Mr. Harrison came over and led me to the General and formally introduced me.
Wilkins found his conception of a whole nation, all enrolled, all listed and badged according to capacity, his dream of every one falling into place in one great voluntary national effort, treated as the childish dreaming of that most ignorant of all human types, a "novelist."
"Help me, here. Get hold of him." Dunnan was still howling as they forced him onto the escalator, the backs of the two retainers' cloaks, badged with the Dunnan crescent, light blue on black, hiding him. After a little, an aircar with the blue crescent blazonry lifted and sped away. "Lucas, he's crazy," Sesar Karvall was insisting.
He was not a ship-builder, but was the assistant of a man who ran a garage and did small repairs. Nor was he, in the accepted sense of the word, a patriot, because he did not enlist at the beginning of the war. His boss suggested he should, but Tam apparently held other views, went into a shipyard and was "badged and reserved."
"What are you going to do?" said Martyn, with a yawn. "Let's have a swim before dinner." "Water's hot. I was at the bath to-day." "Play you game o' billiards fifty up." "It's a hundred and five in the hall now. Sit still and don't be so abominably energetic." A grunting camel swung up to the porch, his badged and belted rider fumbling a leather pouch.
"What are you going to do?." said Martyn, with a yawn. "Let's have a swim before dinner." "'Water's hot. I was at the bath to-day." "Play you game o' billiards fifty up." "It's a hundred and five in the hall now. Sit still and don't be so abominably energetic." A grunting camel swung up to the porch, his badged and belted rider fumbling a leather pouch.
They were hanged in great numbers, on accusations of having clipped the King's coin which all kinds of people had done. They were heavily taxed; they were disgracefully badged; they were, on one day, thirteen years after the coronation, taken up with their wives and children and thrown into beastly prisons, until they purchased their release by paying to the King twelve thousand pounds.
Mr. Britling found a kindred spirit in Wilkins. Wilkins was expounding his tremendous scheme for universal volunteering. Everybody was to be accepted. Everybody was to be assigned and registered and badged. "A brassard," said Mr. Britling. "It doesn't matter whether we really produce a fighting force or not," said Wilkins. "Everybody now is enthusiastic and serious.
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