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I am not one man, I am a whole country." I shall never forget the thrill that passed through me as I saw a man who, but a handful of months before, was neck deep in his grave, now blossomed out into a strong, defiant soldier. There was a pause. At last the leader of the river-drivers spoke. "See," he said, "Sergeant, I guess you're right. You're a man, so help me!
Tea is as essential every afternoon to the British as ice to the average American in summer. They do not think of getting on without it if they can possibly have it, and it is part of the rations. As well take cigarettes away from those who smoke as tea from the British soldier.
"What a heavenly place," Christopher said, toward the end of dinner; "how did you happen to find it?" "Oh, Anne did it. She motored for weeks, and she bought it because of the birches." Anne's eyes were shining. "I'll show them to you after dinner." She had decided at once that she liked Christopher. He still wore his uniform, and had the look of a soldier.
'Last of all, she believed in me believed I was going to be one day something very famous and distinguished: a gallant soldier, whose very presence gave courage to the men who followed him, and with a name repeated in honour over Europe.
Your honour knows, said the corporal, I had no orders; True, quoth my uncle Toby, thou didst very right, Trim, as a soldier, but certainly very wrong as a man.
I ought to dread the going out into the atmosphere of it. I don't. Sometimes I think I must have fighting blood in my veins. Instead of being frightened at what my father writes me, I feel stirred by it all, as if I were ready for anything. I went out to Aldershot, one day last year; but that was only so many dainty frills, so much playing soldier. That's not what I mean at all."
Brothers, have mercy on me! But the brothers had, no mercy, and when the procession came close to me, I saw how a soldier who stood opposite me took a firm step forward and lifting his stick with a whirr, brought it down upon the man's back. The man plunged forward, but the subalterns pulled him back, and another blow came down from the other side, then from this side and then from the other.
The highest type of soldier which the world has yet produced is the intelligent, self-respecting American boy, with home, and father and mother and friends behind him, and duty in front beckoning him on.
The people opened a way for him, saying, Make room for the poor child. Thus he got off, and while search was made for him in the market-place, got into the Yarmouth ferry, and at Yarmouth took ship and went to Holland . . . . In Holland he trailed a pike, and was in several actions as a common soldier.
'Really, dearest Aunt Angela? said Elizabeth. 'What else can I do, child? I have, it seems, driven him out of a gentlemanly residence, and I must give him a ladylike one. True, I would rather have had him at call, but as I have always wished for a policeman in the house, I may as well be satisfied with a soldier. 'But if you lose your character, my lady? said Reginald.
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