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The fellow, with his cast-down eyes, and his well-parted hair, seemed to Lennan to be saying: "Yes, sir it is quite natural that you should take the note out of eyeshot, sir BUT I KNOW; fortunately, there is no necessity for alarm I am strictly confidential." And this was what the note contained: "You promised to ride with me once you DID promise, and you never have.
He looked at the soldier's clear-cut head with its well-opened eyes, the tiny crow's-feet at their corners, the conventional moustache; he envied the certainty of the convictions lying under that well-parted hair. "I would rather we were men first and then Englishmen," he muttered; "I think it's all a sort of national illusion, and I can't stand illusions."
As they passed the gate of the Home Farm, out rushed, all of a sudden, a half-grown pig right between the well-parted legs of the major, with the awkward consequence that he was thrown backwards, and fell into a place which, if he had had any choice, he certainly would not have chosen for the purpose.
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