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There was nothing to indicate the faintest trouble; and yet Captain Buxton, the commanding officer, had been called out by his "striker" or soldier-servant before eleven o'clock, had not returned at all, and in little over half an hour had sent for the officer of the day. What did it mean? Questioning and talking thus among themselves, somebody said, "Hark!" and held up a warning hand.

I see that you have given up white shirts, like the rest of us. I rather expected that if we did meet I should find that, in some miraculous way, you still contrived to get up immaculately." Easton laughed. "No, I left my last white shirt at Cairo, Clinton. I consulted my soldier-servant about it.

He waited, therefore, until night had fallen before ordering his soldier-servant to bring round the two horses to one of the less public gates of the grounds. As he and his friend walked together to the spot, he gave the young American a rapid sketch of the situation at the court, and of the chance that this nocturnal ride might be an event which would affect the future history of France.

I recognized the voice of the soldier-servant of the morning. There he was again, that indefatigable coachman, doing duty as sentinel with a musket in his hands. Not knowing what else to say, I replied, "It is I, a friend!" My good grammar was thrown away upon the brute. "The countersign," he repeated. "Pooh, pooh!" said I, "I do not know anything about the countersign. I am Mr.

Dearman was a dooced fine woman and the Brigade-Major might say that he said so, damme. As the General's infatuation increased he told everybody else also everybody except Colonel Dearman who, of course, knew it already. He even told Jobler, his soldier-servant, promoted butler, as that sympathetic and admiring functionary endeavoured to induce him to go to bed without his uniform.

As a cadet I had a soldier-servant, what we call a "Bursche"; but there were periods when I was out of funds, and barely able to grope my way to the next quarter-day, and at these times I had but one meal a day, and obliged to draw my waist-belt pretty tight to make me feel I had eaten enough. A Bursche costs very little, but I could not spare even that little. 'Confoundedly hard that.

Theydon, can that soldier-servant of yours make coffee?" "His wife can," said Theydon. "Will you be good enough, then, to set her to work? Thus far, since the sun rose, I have stayed the pangs of hunger with an apple and a glass of water." By this time, Theydon had thoroughly revised his first estimate of the diminutive detective.

She seized the lion-headed knocker at the little door, over which was painted the double eagle; her hand trembled as she raised it in order to knock gently, and at the sound the soldier-servant came out and opened to her. "Is the captain in?" asked Athalie. The fellow nodded, grinning. Yes he was at home.

He had come by slow stages from Spain, riding the greater part of the journey like Howell, fifty years earlier attended only by one faithful soldier-servant, and enduring no small suffering, and running no slight risk, upon the road. "The wolves had our provender on more than one occasion," he told them. "The wonder is they never had us or our hackneys.

On the eve of the battle of Borodino, Prince Andre, talking with Pierre in the presence of his devoted soldier-servant Timokhine, says, "'Success cannot possibly be, nor has it ever been, the result of strategy or fire-arms or numbers. "'Then what does it result from? said Pierre. "'From the feeling that is in me, that is in him' pointing to Timokhine 'and that is in each individual soldier."