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After the tents in Montiers were all settled and the work fully started, the Staff-Captain and his helpers settled down to a pleasant little schedule of sixteen hours a day work and called it ease; but that was not to he enjoyed for long.
At that moment she was drawing on a long glove and, doubtless, pining to be flying over the dancing-floor, where, with clicking heels, four couples had now begun to thread the mazes of the mazurka. In particular was a military staff-captain working body and soul and arms and legs to compass such a series of steps as were never before performed, even in a dream.
I seized the papers and lost no time in carrying them away, fearing that the staff-captain might repent his action. Soon somebody came to tell us that the "Adventure" would set off in an hour's time. I ordered the horses to be put to. I had already put my cap on when the staffcaptain entered the room. Apparently he had not got ready for departure. His manner was somewhat cold and constrained.
"Very well," he laughed, "tell me who stabbed you and I won't mention your name to Staff-Captain Abd el Kadir." "And these men? Will they say nothing?" "Not a word. Who stabbed you?" "Yussuf Dakmar! May Allah cut him off from love and mercy!" "Golly!" exploded Jeremy, forgetting not to talk English. "There's a swine for you!
My husband is a commanding officer. I will not permit some cabman to utter such infamies almost in my presence!" "He is not a cabman, madam, but the staff-captain Kikin. . . . A gentleman born." "If he has so far forgotten his station as to express himself like a cabman, then he is even more deserving of contempt! In short, don't answer me, but kindly take steps!" "But what can I do, madam?
Praise God for the opportunity of working among the New England braves! At Menil-la-Tours the French forbade any huts at all to be put up at first, but finally they gave permission for one hut. The Staff-Captain wanted to put up two, but as that wasn't allowed he got around the order by building five rooms on each side of the one big hut and so had plenty of room.
A Y.M.C.A. hut, however, followed quickly on the heels of the Salvation Army at Demange and the night of the opening of the Salvation Army hut someone came to ask if they would come over to the Y. and help in a meeting. Sure, they would help! So the Staff-Captain took a cornetist and two of the lassies and went over to the Y.M.C.A. hut.
I observed all that in a moment... I coughed and rapped my heels against the threshold, but he pretended not to hear. "'Ensign! I said, as sternly as I could. 'Do you not see that I have come to you? "'Ah, good morning, Maksim Maksimych! Won't you have a pipe? he answered, without rising. "'Excuse me, I am not Maksim Maksimych. I am the staff-captain. "'It's all the same!
Then for the last time I gazed down upon the valley; but the thick mist which had gushed in billows from the gorges veiled it completely, and not a single sound now floated up to our ears from below. The Ossetes surrounded me clamorously and demanded tips; but the staff-captain shouted so menacingly at them that they dispersed in a moment. "What a people they are!" he said.
He was there with his Staff-captain, and he said, “I’ve come to invite you to dinner to-morrow night, Mr. Smith. I want you to come to the officers’ mess.” “What time, sir?” I asked. “I cannot miss my meeting at half-past six with the boys.” “Well, the mess will be at half-past seven. We will arrange that.” “Before you go, sir, I should like to ask why you are interested in me.”
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