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When the soldier-servant retired and the door was closed, Hope seated himself near the window, while Braddock trotted round, looking into things. "It's a dog kennel," said the Professor. "I told Random that." "Perhaps we should have waited him in the mess," suggested Archie. "No! no! no! We couldn't talk there, with a lot of silly young fools hanging about.
I had with me, in the capacity of soldier-servant, a Cossack of the frontier army. Ordering him to take down the portmanteau and dismiss the driver, I began to call the master of the house. No answer! I knocked all was silent within!... What could it mean? At length a boy of about fourteen crept out from the hall. "Where is the master?" "There isn't one." "What! No master?" "None!"
The Duke of Kent had brought an old soldier-servant, called Stillman, and established him, with his wife and family, in a cottage in one of the Kensington lanes. It is said the Duke had recommended this former retainer to the care of the Duchess, and that she and her daughter were in the habit of visiting and caring for the family, in which there were a sickly little boy and girl.
Advertisements like this; Desmond reflected dreamily, meant legacies as a rule; he was glad of it, for the sake of Barling whom he hadn't seen since the far-away days of Aldershot before the war. "Buzzer" Barling was the brother of one Private Henry Barling who had been Desmond's soldier-servant. He derived the nickname of "Buzzer" from the fact that he was a signaller.
I caught this cold by 'sleeping with a damp man in my cabin', as some one said. During the last gale, the cabin opposite mine was utterly swamped, and I found the Irish soldier-servant of a little officer of eighteen in despair; the poor lad had got ague, and eight inches of water in his bed, and two feet in the cabin.
She would have thought him still more clever had she known that he trusted to the power of suggestion to prevent her from trying to escape. Sir Frank had not the slightest intention of setting his soldier-servant to watch, as such was not the duty for which such servants are hired.
The latter waited until the soldier-servant had led away the mule and another boy relieved the officer of his water-bottle, which he always carried himself, and then he looked hard at the thin, brown, resolute face, with an expression in his eyes that made Carew ask shortly: "Any news?" "Bad news from England. I suppose you haven't heard?" "I haven't heard anything."
It was imperative that I should find something in the nature of what I might call a suitable base of operations. Fortune played into my hands. One of the first men I met in New York was an old soldier-servant of mine, to whom I had been able to do some kindnesses in the old days.
"I rely on you, Ormonde, "Your ashamed grateful friend, Second Lieutenant Delorme rang the bell. "Bradshaw," he said, as his soldier-servant appeared. "And get me a telegraph form." "Yussir," said Private Billings, and marched to the Mess ante-room purposefully, with hope in his heart that Mr.
About that time bad news from home oppressed his spirits to such an extent that his soldier-servant, who was much attached to him, and was allowed considerable freedom of speech in consequence of his value and fidelity, thought fit to remonstrate.
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