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We were both convinced that the only way to make them behave like ladies and gentlemen was to have them always with us at meals.
During this stay in the trenches the Germans stuck up a notice board with the following legend: Attention Gentlemen, and below in German, 'If you send over one more trench-mortar bomb you will get strafed in the neck. On February 3 we were relieved and A Company stayed four days in the railway cutting at Hill 60 in close support. The second day I went with Capt. Welch and Lieut.
"Black as thunderclouds were their faces," he said, "as they saw these sweet young ladies, whom they in their callow affections would already wholly monopolise, kissed by a dozen different gentlemen during the day." "How do you like `O-jimmy-catch-the-cow' day, or whatever you call it?" he said to Frank, as he saw him glowering at a Hudson Bay officer who had just kissed his sweetheart.
Buchanan, while appreciating the motive and feelings of these gentlemen, manifested a little characteristic waggishness about their going to rest and getting up refreshed for their duties. The murder, one bright Sunday morning in February, of Philip Barton Key, the District Attorney of the District of Columbia, by Mr.
First, then, Gentlemen, as to the fundamental principles of religion and morals, and again as to the fundamental principles of Christianity, or what are called the dogmas of faith,—as to this double creed, natural and revealed,—we, none of us, should say that it is any shackle at all upon the intellect to maintain these inviolate.
Louis was exceedingly anxious about this matter; for his majesty was a keen sportsman, and would much rather have gone without the Veto, or the prerogative of making peace and war, than without his hunting and shooting. Gentlemen of the royal household were sent to Barere, in order to intercede for the deer and pheasants. Nor was this intercession unsuccessful.
"How old are you?" he asked, and this roused the General, who came back from his musings with a convulsive start, and repeated his brother's question. "Twelve," said Gilian, first in Gaelic out of instinct, and hurriedly repeating it in English lest he should offend the gentlemen. "Twelve," said the Cornal, thinking hard. "You are not very bulky for your age. Is he now, Dugald?"
I know not what you mean by your charge against me, which, I take it, comes to this, that I have said evil of you to some one, I know not whom, and in some place I know not where. Is that why you have been avoiding me, and even looking at me as if I were your enemy? My time is short, but this misunderstanding between gentlemen can surely be quickly cleared.
Married a poor woman and pretty; wife made me jealous had learned to suspect every one. Alice born did not believe her mine: not like me perhaps a gentleman's child. I hate I loathe gentlemen. Got drunk one night kicked my wife in the stomach three weeks after her confinement. Wife died tried for my life got off.
And while Merton murmured 'Highly unprofessional, the skirts of the two ladies vanished behind the screen. Miss Crofton had not played Lady Teazle for nothing. 'Ask the gentlemen to come in, said Merton, when the boy returned. They entered: three fair young curates, nervous and inclined to giggle.
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