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By tea-time we were properly installed; and indeed the Australian colonel and his adjutant remained as our guests at dinner. The mess, cut out of the side of the trench and lined with corrugated iron, possessed an ingeniously manufactured door part of a drum-tight wing of a French aeroplane.
The cheeks were fallen in, so that, despite the covering of beard, the upper rows of teeth ridged the shrunken flesh. Across the forehead and about the deep-sunk eyes, the skin was stretched drum-tight, while the scraggly beard, that should have been golden, was singed by fire and filthy with camp-smoke. "Better pack up," Smoke said. "I'm going on." "But you're feeble as a kid baby.
The mountain secretary followed him into the Senate with the resolutions he had just read, and the autocrat, still with that icy smile, received and passed them into oblivion. That night the mountain army disappeared as quickly as it had come, on a special train through that hole in the wall and with a farewell salute of gun and pistol into the drum-tight air of the little capital.
She would like to get wet to the skin, take a violent cold, go into a consumption, and die in a fortnight. The wind whistled about her bonnet, dashed the rain- drops clanging on the drum-tight silk of her parasol, and made of her skirts fetters and chains.
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