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At least the garrison of the islands is all black, being a Jamaican regiment of that color; and when one of the warriors comes down the white street, with his swagger-stick in his hand, and flaming in scarlet and gold upon the ground of his own blackness, it is as if a gigantic oriole were coming towards you, or a mighty tulip.
A dormitory is merciless to a prefect whose weakness they have discovered. Sheen kept his head. In a quiet, pleasant voice, fingering the swagger-stick, as he spoke, in an absent manner, he requested his young friend to re-make the bed rapidly and completely. For the space of five minutes no sound broke the silence except the rustle of sheets and blankets.
On that occasion, the incensed owner of the dismantled study, taking a mean advantage of the fact that he was a prefect, and so entitled to wield the rod, produced a handy swagger-stick from an adjacent corner, and, inviting Master Renford to bend over, gave him six of the best to remember him by.
Firby-Smith's manner became ominously calm. He produced a swagger-stick from a corner. "Do you see?" he asked again. Mike's jaw set more tightly. What one really wants here is a row of stars. Mike was still full of his injuries when Wyatt came back. Wyatt was worn out, but cheerful.
It was densely packed with people, most of them wearing clothes a farm tramp on Gram wouldn't be found dead in, but here and there among them were blocks of men in what was almost but not quite military uniform, each with a short and thick swagger-stick with a knobbed head. Across the park, in the distance, the head and shoulders of Zaspar Makann loomed a hundred feet high in a huge screen.
At the conclusion of prayers, therefore, he went up again to Kennedy's study, with a more hopeful air than he had worn on his previous visit. "Come in," said Kennedy, reaching for the swagger-stick which he was accustomed to use at these ceremonies. "Please, Kennedy," said Wren, glibly. "I did get leave to go down town this afternoon." "What!" Wren repeated the assertion. "Who gave you leave?"
At least the garrison of the islands is all black, being a Jamaican regiment of that color; and when one of the warriors comes down the white street, with his swagger-stick in his hand, and flaming in scarlet and gold upon the ground of his own blackness, it is as if a gigantic oriole were coming towards you, or a mighty tulip.
He, being a Prussian and a gentleman, couldn't stoop to such menial labor in the presence of his men, and I didn't see fit to ask it of him, as the work was purely voluntary upon our part. He spent the afternoon shaping a swagger-stick from the branch of jarrah and talking with Miss La Rue, who had sufficiently unbent toward him to notice his existence.
There was another incident, too, which to me at least was far more unpleasant than the sudden onslaught of the prehistoric reptile. Two of the men, both Germans, were stripping a felled tree of its branches. Von Schoenvorts had completed his swagger-stick, and he and I were passing close to where the two worked.
I wasted a lot of valuable time pointing out to them with a swagger-stick that I was the wrong person to come to. I'm sorry you should have thought I could play it as low down as that." Kennedy hesitated. It is not very pleasant to have to climb down after starting a conversation in a stormy and wrathful vein. But it had to be done. "I'm sorry, Fenn," he said; "I was an idiot."
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