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So she turned it off with a jest in her pretty way, and got up and jigged along the corridor with me after her, longing to jig it with her, but hobbled by my new dignity. I had no clear notion of an assistant aide-de-camp's duties, but felt that they required a certain solemnity of manner inconsistent with her ladyship's grasshopper ways.
Yet Vinton attached importance to his aide-de-camp's opinion, and when Ray came out flat-footed, as it were, in support of Stuyvesant's views, the general was visibly gratified. But, except for these very few, Ray had spoken to unbelieving ears. Sternly the military lawyer took him in hand and began to probe. No need to enter into details.
Up to this point the young aide-de-camp's duties had been confined solely to the work of the brigade to seeing that the regiments kept their proper distances, that none of the waggons loitered behind, and that the roads were repaired, where absolutely necessary, for the baggage to pass.
Bonaparte took the pen, and using the back of his aide-de-camp's hat, he signed the commission. Roland gave him the pistols. "Did you look; to them?" asked Bonaparte. Roland smiled. "Don't be uneasy," said he; "I'll answer for them." Bonaparte slipped the pistols in his belt, murmuring as he did so: "I wish I knew what she wrote her husband."
For want of a nail the shoe of the aide-de-camp's horse was lost; for want of the shoe, the horse was lost; for want of the horse, the aide-de-camp himself was lost, for the enemy took him and killed him; and for want of the aide-de camp's intelligence, the army of his general was lost: and all because a little nail had not been properly fixed in a horse's shoe!
Innumerable dim corners of memory had been flooded with light by that one quick glance of the aide-de-camp's: things he had heard, hints he had let pass, smiles, insinuations, cordialities, rumours of the improbability of the Prince's founding a family, suggestions as to the urgent need of replenishing the Teutoburger treasury....
Come at once." There was no signature. Yet Taffy knew who had ridden to the office with that telegram. The flying dark held visions of her, and the express throbbed westward to the beat of Aide-de-camp's gallop. Nor was he surprised at all to find her on the platform at Truro Station. The Tredinnis phaeton was waiting outside.
"Your aide-de-camp's commission runs so far, I trust," said Margaret demurely, "as to permit me to choose my own cell." "I think that might be allowed, madam," I replied, with answerable gravity, "but of course I must sit outside the door and keep strict watch over you." "You would, I suppose, feel surer of me if you sat inside the door?" "Naturally, madam." "Then come along!
The instant he left the colonel's presence he had asked for a desk in the aide-de-camp's room, had penned a few hasty lines to her first of all, had hurried with them to the Rock Island Depot, only a few squares away, that they might catch the mail just starting, and she she who had proved so gallantly her faith in him, be the first to know of his complete vindication.
The young aide-de-camp's influence is not allowed to wane for lack of self-advertisement. It is charitable to assume that this utterance was inspired by some liquid stronger than the alleged "stale water that had been to India and back." On the whole, was there ever an odder company of shipmates since the days of Noah?
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