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Miss Clarendon meanwhile received from her brother, punctually, once a week, bulletins of Churchill's health; the surgical details, the fears of the formation of internal abscess, reports of continual exfoliations of bone, were judiciously suppressed, and the laconic general reported only "Much the same not progressing cannot be pronounced out of danger."
"If we ever have any serious fallin' out with Colonel Gid it's like to be over that moose," drawled a man. "To judge by the moose, we must be near Number 7 camp," Parker suggested. "Just over the hossback," was the laconic answer. Parker was soon looking down on it from the hilltop.
Somehow, my own thoughts had become active in the presence of these women, and were racing over everything that I had seen and heard that day, from the moment of my chat with Wardle, before sunrise, in Holborn. "I don't see any other way to take it," said Mrs. Van Homrey, with laconic emphasis. "Do you?" she added. "Well, you see, I did not begin by taking your view.
It was Construction Foreman Cassidy who gave the place its name when he answered his employer's laconic telegram. Stirling, the great contractor, frequently expressed himself with forcible terseness; but when he flung the message across to his secretary as he sat one morning in his private room in an Ottawa hotel, the latter raised his eyebrows questioningly.
We have a spare ticket; and we would take excellent care of her. If she found herself fatigued, I would attend upon her home any time she chose to leave." "It would be too exciting for her nerves," was Mrs. Delano's laconic answer. "The fact is," said Mrs. Fitzgerald, "Mr. Green has told us so much about her, that we are extremely anxious to be introduced to her.
For it was his senior subaltern, and a bullet had entered his head from behind just above the neck. It had come out at his forehead, and we will not specify further. "Stretcher bearers at once." He went back to the group he had just left. "Mr. Dixon has been shot through the parapet, farther up." "Killed, sir?" The N.C.O. in charge was in Dixon's platoon. "Yes." The Company Officer was laconic.
Vera sank back hopelessly upon the seat; and Maurice, according to the manners and customs of infuriated Britons, gave utterance to a very laconic word of bad import below his breath. "I wouldn't have had this happen for ten thousand pounds!" he said, after a minute, looking at her in blank despair.
"Without being positively uneasy as to my mother's health, since she was already convalescent," resumed the other, "I shall only be quite reassured by a letter from my excellent friend, the Princess de Saint Dizier. I shall have good news this morning, I hope." "It is to be desired," said the secretary, as humble and submissive as he was laconic and impassible.
Although greatly averse to following the notary's advice as to seeking Claudet's assistance, he found himself compelled to do so, but was met by such laconic and surly answers that he concluded it would be more dignified on his part to dispense with the services of one who was so badly disposed toward him.
East of Epehy, between Bullecourt and Fontaine les Croisilles, important positions also had been captured by the gallant "Tommies." "The enemy was completely surprised." This was the laconic message sent to Field Marshal Haig by the man who had led the British to victory, as he rested until the morrow. Along the entire forty- mile line the attack had been successful.
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