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"And I too," he said good-humouredly, "have been put on half-pay, but your half-pay can hardly give you enough to buy tobacco! Here, corporal!" and he tried to force the gold coin into the young man's closed hand, which rested on the gunwale of the gig. The young Corsican reddened, drew himself up, bit his lips, and seemed, for a moment, on the brink of some angry reply.
Under his command, the Rangers did good service in many engagements, and fought with a valour and discipline which more than once caused them to be singled out for special mention in the official despatches of the time. The Queen's Rangers have killed or taken twice their own numbers." Upon the close of the war, the Rangers were disbanded, the officers being placed on the half-pay list.
'A gentleman whom I have some reluctance to mention because of certain private reasons, but under whose command I served some time in India, and who is too much a man of honour to refuse his testimony to my character as a soldier and gentleman. 'And who is this doughty witness, pray, sir? said Sir Robert, some half-pay quartermaster or sergeant, I suppose?
But they had been disbanded like mere militia afterwards, without either gratuities or half-pay for the officers. This naturally made the class from which officers were drawn think that no career was open to them under the Union Jack and turned their thoughts towards France, where their fellows were enjoying full pay without a break.
In the mornin' he comes around just like nothin' had happened and wants to know if I'll sub. for him on his evenin' job the night he goes to the ball. To show I don't carry any grouch, I says I will; but he offers only half-pay and makes me agree to split the tips with him. "I couldn't afford it, at that," says he, "only this is a kid session and the graft will be light."
The colonel was a widower, and in poor health, and since he was living mainly on his half-pay, and had very little to give his daughter, the affair was looked upon as a love match, the rather since Edith was a handsome young woman of charming character.
Your step-mother likes it, and the boy likes it wonderful healthy air, don't you know no smoke no fogs only three miles from the sea, as the crow flies. It suits them, and it's cheap a paramount consideration with a poor devil on half-pay; and in the season there are some of the best people in Europe to be seen at the etablissement.
My half-pay I have given up to satisfy my creditors, and my child supports me by her industry: sometimes by fine needlework, sometimes by painting. She leaves me every night, and goes to a lodging near the bridge; but returns in the morning, to cheer me with her smiles, and bless me by her duteous affection. A lady once offered her an asylum in her family; but she would not leave me.
Take care of all the poor that apply to you, but leave the half-pay classes to a different style of doctor, the people who spend one half their time in taking care of their patients, and the other half in squeezing out their money. Go for the swell-fronts and south-exposure houses; the folks inside are just as good as other people, and the pleasantest, on the whole, to take care of.
They were fourteen in number, seated round a table, not indifferently covered with the good things of this life; they were clad in theatrical costume, which, with the rapid circulation of the bottle, gave the whole scene an air of romantic freedom, calculated to interest the mind of a thoughtless half-pay midshipman.
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