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"Well," said the Brigadier, "they are young troops of course, and it was not unnatural that they should retire in disorder for a bit." "Oh, my only Aunt Maria!" murmured a junior Staff Officer. "Retire in disorder! It was a bally run!" "But they came again as we all know," cooed the Brigadier, the Colonel's ashy-white face before him, "and they behaved as well as could possibly be expected.
But he had never seen a proud woman break down before the ominous cablegram, he had never seen a girl sit dry-eyed and ashy-white, staring dumbly at a slip of yellow paper. And Sophie had many a time. To her, a commission in the Royal Flying Corps had come to mean little short of a death warrant. She sat now staring blankly at her father.
"Well," said the Brigadier, "they are young troops, of course, and it was not unnatural that they should retire in disorder for a bit." "Oh, my only Aunt Maria ! " murmured a junior Staff Officer. "Retire in disorder! It was a bally run!" "But they came again, as we all know," cooed the Brigadier, the Colonel's ashy-white face before him, "and they behaved as well as could possibly be expected.
Upon their limbs in April the Spanish moss and air-plants were just blossoming, the former into little star-like, hardly-discernible flowers, the latter throwing up a green stem with a pink terminal bud, which in August had burst into a spike of crimson flowers. Curious lichens cover the rough trunks of these oaks some gray, some ashy-white, some pink, some scarlet like blotches of blood.
There are frills about the man, fine laces, cloth; a goodish yellow wig on him, for one thing: their Slavonic dialect, too fatally intelligible by the pantomime accompanying it, forces sage Maupertuis from his tree or standpoint; the big red face flurried into scarlet, I can fancy; or scarlet and ashy-white mixed; and Let us draw a veil over it!
How angry the soldiers were with him one gave him a great punch in the back, another kicked him up into the train, and a soldier on the platform who saw what was happening ran as fast as he could and was just in time to give him a parting hit on the shoulder. The old man did not cry out or attempt to retaliate, but his face was ashy-white with terror, and one of his hands was dripping with blood.
Temperance!" said Bob, as the white horses turned into the road again. "Temperance! take a drink! go to grass, all of you!" The Bobolink. Length about seven inches. Male in spring and summer: jet black with ashy-white rump and shoulders; some light edgings on the back, wings, and tail-feathers, and a buff patch on the back of the neck, like a cream-puff baked just right.
Borrow's face lighted by the red turf fire of the tent was worth looking at. He is ashy-white now but twenty years ago, when his hair was like a raven's wing, he must have been hard to discriminate from a born Bohemian.
"Thanks," she said, bending over her saddle-bow, and taking the daisies as he held them up to her. "Yes, you are the first to congratulate me," which was true. He still stood looking at her, and his hand would hardly let go the flowers where his fingers touched hers. His face grew pale, then ashy-white and he steadied himself against her horse's neck.
"You consider her very ill, do you not?" gasped Helene. He answered in the negative; there was no change. But his face was ashy-white, and he remained seated, overwhelmed by his powerlessness. Thereupon she also, despite the tension of her whole being, sank upon a chair on the other side of the bed. "Tell me everything. You promised to tell me all. Is she beyond hope?"
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