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When I looked at the townsfolk on the pavement, or in the double-decked trams, I saw that the bulk of them saluted, not grudgingly or of necessity, but in a light-hearted, even flippant fashion. "Those are Line and Militia men," said Pigeon. "That old chap in the top-hat by the lamp-post is an ex-Guardee. That's why he's saluting in slow-time.
They waited till the remnint av the battalion was up, and thin clane against ordhers, for who wanted that chune that day? they wint back to Peshawur slow-time an' tearin' the bowils out av ivry man that heard, wid 'The Dead March. Right across our line they wint, an' ye know their uniforms are as black as the Sweeps, crawlin' past like the dead, an' the other bands damnin' them to let be.
And he learned his art not only the rudiments of it but the final finished polish of it in the dancehalls of Third Avenue, where the best slow-time dancers on earth come from.
"Stand up!" she said. "Ma'am?" "March into the library!" Sam marched slow-time. In fact, no funeral march has been composed in a time so slow as to suit this march of Sam's. One might have suspected that he was in a state of apprehension. Mr. Williams entered at one door as his son crossed the threshold of the other, and this encounter was a piteous sight.
"You're prompt, O'Brien," exclaimed the colonel, laughing; "Have you had enough of this slow-time business?" "More than enough, colonel. What are your fellows looking so pleased about?" "First, the prospect of a breakfast; and then " "You've badgered the general into giving you a free hand!" "Not quite that; but I have permission to push on. I fear it's too late.
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