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Boy! whiskey-soda Commanding Sahib ke wasté lao. "You've my entire sympathy, Colonel," said Major Hepburn, the Second in Command. "It's my turn to ask the Resident to dinner next. I feel tempted to go on the sick-list to escape it." "I say, sir, I've got a good idea," said an Irish subaltern named Daly, who was seated at the bridge-table.
A nervous horse took fright at the running water, dashed up one of the banks, and firmly embedded the water-cart, which he was pulling, in the other, thus effectively blocking the way. When the Subaltern, having seen everything safe for the night, was returning to report to the Major, he found something akin to confusion in the Transport.
"Matter of business he wanted to ask me about, that's all," he called back, as he broke away and dodged other inquiries. Once in the little box of a stateroom to which he and a fellow subaltern had been assigned, he bolted the door, turned on the electric light, and took from under his pillow a packet of letters and sat him down to read.
But Parthe'nius, with his freedman, a gladiator, and two subaltern officers, now coming in, they ran furiously upon the emperor and dispatched him: Steph'anus, however, was slain by the guards, but the other conspirators escaped in the tumult. It is rather incredible, what some writers relate concerning Apollo'nius Tyane'us, who was then at Ephesus.
The men's faces were flushed, their uniforms dusty and travel-stained, their knapsacks strapped firmly on, and their gait the steady tramp of the march. Saluting the subaltern, I asked if anything of consequence had occurred in the south that the troops were so suddenly under orders.
Never was a subaltern given a more friendly welcome than that which Major Brighten extended to me. I was made at home at once.
"Captain Schofield," said the subaltern, "you are to be transferred, and I trust you will deem it advisable to go peaceably." Catching sight of the six armed sailors, Code could not help grinning. "There's no question about it," he said; "I will." "Form cordon!" ordered the officer, and the sailors surrounded him two before, two beside, and two behind. In this order they marched to the cutter.
That, and another sound, told the Subaltern that the full fruits of his work were to be fully reaped the sound of the guns and of the full, deep-chested, roaring cheers of the British infantry as they swarmed from their trenches and rushed to occupy the crater of the explosion.
These shrapnel bullets and shell splinters make a shocking mess of a wound, y'know. 'Yes, said the gunner grimly, 'I know. 'A perfectly brutal mess, the subaltern repeated. 'A bullet now is more or less decent, but those shells of theirs, they don't give a man a chance to pull through. 'Ours are as bad, if that's any satisfaction to you, said the gunner. 'I s'pose so, agreed the subaltern.
The good-humour which appeared in the countenance of Amelia was, perhaps, another help to stifle those reflexions; but above all, were the assurances he had received from the great man, whom he had met at a coffee-house, and who had promised to do him all the service in his power; which several half-pay subaltern officers assured him was very considerable.
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