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And, in accordance with the above plans, we left Watou on the night of July 25 and marched to Query Camp, near Brandhoek, but on the left of the main road. Here we remained awaiting 'XY night. 'Z day' was the day on which the battle was to take place. On 'XY night' we left Query Camp and took up our positions in our concentration trenches near Vlamertinghe.
Our friends, the osteopaths, have only a pitying smile for our arduous labors. They ask: "Why fool with cold water and drive patients away, when pleasant manipulations bring the business?" If we query in return: "Do your pleasant manipulations cure obstinate chronic ailments?" They answer: "We do not expect to cure them. The effort involves too much labor and spoils the reputation of our work.
Have you? Do you hate your boy, and want to fire pillows at him?" Anything more wheedlesome than that touching appeal was seldom heard, but Jo quenched 'her boy' by turning on him with a stern query, "How many bouquets have you sent Miss Randal this week?" "Not one, upon my word. She's engaged. Now then."
The stone is a sort of granite." The girl wished to ask a thousand questions: How did her father meet his death, and where? What did they know? What had they recovered with his body? The girl spoke impulsively, her words crowding one another. And the Oriental seemed able only to disengage the last query from the others.
They have cost you ten thousand pounds a head. Meanwhile, at least a hundred thousand children have been born in America. There are the factors in your problem. How much time and money will be required for the job of killing all of us?" The British Admiral ignored the query.
To-night it will be beautiful on the water. I have often sailed with father." A prodigious sigh closed the paragraph, and drew from Bessie a query that perhaps she wished she was sailing with him now? She did, indeed! "He left me here because I was not well it is three weeks since; it was the day of the emperor's fête but I am no stronger yet.
"There was nothing to investigate," Asher replied. It did not occur to him to connect the query with Carey's knowledge of Shirley's affairs or with his studying in the East. "You have relatives there?" Carey asked. "Yes, a Jane Aydelot. Married, single, widowed, I can't tell. My father left his estate to her. I was in love with the West then, and madly in love with my wife.
We crossed the ferry and took a Broadway omnibus, while query followed query. 'Makes me feel like a flapjack t'ride 'n them things, said Uncle Eb as we got out. He hired a parlour and two bedrooms for us all at the St Nicholas. 'Purty middlin' steep! he said to me as we left the office. 'It is, sartin! but I don't care not a bit. When folks has if hev a good time they've got t' hev it.
There were sarcastic references to 'limejuice, and Jim was asked by several strangers, with a show of much concern, if his mother knew he was out. 'Does your mother know you're out? was then a new and popular street gag, and the query implied a childlike incapability of taking care of himself on the part of the person addressed, and was generally accepted as a choice piece of humour.
In reply to the general and stereotyped query, "Shoot anything?" one of the erring pair replies, "Yes, we shot several canvas-backs, but lost them in the reeds; didn't we, old un?" "Yes, five," promptly asserts "old un," a truthful young man of about three-and-twenty summers.
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