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Just imagine it, writing a love letter during a "cootie" hunt; but such is the creed of the trenches. Upon enlistment we had identity disks issued to us. These were small disks of red fiber worn around the neck by means of a string. Most of the Tommies also used a little metal disk which they wore around the left wrist by means of a chain.
Now that evening, I must tell you, she had resolved upon a bit of fun; and knowing that in France unmarried girls are not supposed to wear jewellery, she had fastened on her wrist a heavy gold bracelet as a token of her servitude. So while the young duke was talking, she looked at me, playing carelessly the while with what she calls her "slave's ring."
Ursus bent to the Apostle's feet; then, recognizing Vinicius, seized his hand by the wrist, and raised it to his lips. "And thou, lord," said he. "Blessed be the name of the Lamb, for the joy which thou wilt bring to Callina." He opened the door then, and entered. Linus was lying on a bundle of straw, with an emaciated face and a forehead as yellow as ivory.
"You might have sprained your wrist," he said lightly as he rose to examine the cliff still to be negotiated. Her dark eyes looked at him with quick surprise. "So I might," she answered dryly. But his indifferent tone had the effect upon her of a plunge into cold water. It braced and stiffened her will.
Soon there was not a turn of her head or a line of her figure that he did not know; not a trick of her walk, not a pose of her hand as she waited for a pot to boil that he could not see in the dark; not a gleam from her hair as she stooped to the blaze, nor a turn of her wrist as she shielded her face that was not as familiar to him as if he had known her from childhood.
'Bonds and chains, said the girl, clasping her wrist tight. 'To have my hands tied! 'You are not called upon to find out, my dear, said Dr. Maryland; 'that is not required of you. But remember, Hazel, no bonds are heavy but love wears. 'Depends upon how they get on, sir, she said, quickly. 'What? said the doctor, with a somewhat comic twinkle coming into his eye. 'How is that?
Weel, sir, this poor maimed hand doth me, in some sort, as much service as ever; and, admit yours to be taken off by the wrist, you have still your left hand for your service, and are better off than the little Dutch dwarf here about town, who threads a needle, limns, writes, and tosses a pike, merely by means of his feet, without ever a hand to help him."
As Cornelia turned upon him, he stopped a moment, standing quite motionless, with the fingers of one hand resting on the side of the house. Then he came close up to her and grasped her wrist with his gloved hand. "Where is Sophie?" demanded he in his rapid, muffled voice.
"Too late! We are too late, Punch," said Pen bitterly. "Here they are! Prisoners, my lad. I can do no more." For, as he spoke, about a dozen of the enemy doubled up to the front of the hut, and the young Spaniard who had betrayed the two lads stood before Pen, showing his white teeth in a malignant grin of triumph, as he held the girl by the wrist.
Long is Dick Whitfield, the head of a corps of mountain sleuths, probably the shrewdest man in his line of work who ever came into the Kentucky hills. It was he who wounded the mountaineer in the bushes that night by your camp. It was he who protected you in many tight places, including some that you did not know about." "And shot Lum Bangs through the wrist at the dance," suggested Nora.
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