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Following out the principle that the corps was to be for service and not for show, the time-honoured scarlet of the British Army was laid aside for the dust-coloured uniform which half a century later, under the now well-known name of khaki, became the fighting dress of the whole of the land forces of the Empire.
We criticize their care and feeding, suggest spanking when they are a little older, quiver unanimously with horror when they begin to "flip" freight trains, or get scarlet fever, and watch them grow up as eagerly as you New Yorkers watched the Woolworth Building. When they are graduated from high school we are all there with bouquets and presents, and we have an equity in the whole brood.
Those blades of golden wheat and those scarlet poppies make the most perfect trimming for these ravishing shades of green; just the colors that become me most. That dress is a triumph, Mademoiselle Victorine!" "The design is Mademoiselle Melanie's, but the cut, the execution, they are mine," said the forewoman, complacently. "And for whom is the dress intended?
No picture was ever so perfect and beautiful as she. Her robes were lovelier than those of any other goddess. Sometimes they were of gold and scarlet, sometimes of purest white, and many times of modest green. She loved to spin, and no spider ever spun so fine a thread as she on her spinning wheel.
But this last offence was so inexpiable, that the "Madchen" bounced off with a face of scarlet, and a "Sir, you are no gentleman that's what you arn't!"
'Here was my lady herself red as scarlet: here was Master Springrove, looken as if he half wished he'd never a-come ah, poor souls! the men always do! The women do stand it best the maid was in her glory. Though she was so shy the glory shone plain through that shy skin. Ah, it did so's.
"If it could only have been Arthur," she repeated sadly, gazing through the French window of the drawing-room to the garden where beds of scarlet sage flaunted brilliantly in the sunshine. "I hope and pray that dear Gabriella will be happy," replied Mrs. Peyton, a beautiful old lady, with wonderful white hair under the widow's ruching in her bonnet.
His great brow was furrowed, his enormous bulk of scarlet, with the great double dog-rose embroidered across the broad chest, limped a little over his right knee and the foot dragged. His eyes were bloodshot and heavy, his head hung forward as though he were about to charge the world with his forehead.
However, there was no time to lose, as I expected that should the elephants observe our vessels, and the troops in their scarlet uniform, they would immediately wheel round and be off, at the pace which an African elephant knows so well how to use. I quickly mounted "Greedy Grey" and told Suleiman to send on my rifles directly, with ammunition.
"No, ma'am," said she, shaking her head a number of times. "I'm only his charity sick." She added, as if to make the repudiation complete: "Mr. V.V.'s friends are ladies, ma'am." "Mr. Confronted by her damning slip, the young person turned scarlet, but she stood her ground with a little gasp. "A nickname, ma'am, that all his sick call him by...."
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