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And Grosman and I thought they deserved to be robbed, and we intended doing so to-night. But one of these swine must have thought of the same game, and hid the stones somewhere. Own up, you cowardly blighters which of you has taken them where are they?
Colonel Wilberforce Wriothesley, of the 99th Baluch Light Infantry, apparently did not feel called upon to notice the remark of Horace, whom he regarded as a Person. "Makes you proud to think you are one of the Ruling Rice to look at the silly blighters, don't it?" he persisted. "No authority on rice," murmured the Colonel, without looking up from his book.
To which chipped in a third, "Yes, and somethink to keep the blighters from shooting us in the back wouldn't 'ave done us much 'arm, anyway." There were evidently more things in earth than I had hitherto dreamt of in my philosophy!
I knew all of them, especially one of the naval airmen who flies what he calls a motor-bus and drops bombs with sea curses upon the heads of any German troops he can find on a morning's reconnaissance. He rubs his hand at the thought that he has "done in" quite a number of the "German blighters." With a little luck he hopes to nobble a few more this afternoon.
Said Pyecroft, with a sigh: "The amount o' trouble me an' my bright spurs 'ad fishin' out that information from torpedo coxswains and similar blighters in pubs all this afternoon, you would never believe." "But has the Stiletto broken down?" I asked weakly. "How else are we to get Red Fleet's private signal-code? Any way, if she 'asn't now, she will before manoeuvres are ended.
Sit down, as the blighters in the novels used to say, and tell me the story of your life. You've seen Jill, of course?" "Yes," said Derek shortly. "And it's all right, eh? Fine! We'll make a double wedding of it, what? Not a bad idea, that! I mean to say, the man of God might make a reduction for quantity and shade his fee a bit. Do the job half price!"
Then she pondered. Men whether "blighters" in Kalliope's mouth conveyed reproach or were simply a synonym for men she did not know men in a ship "mucky" described the ship as little probably as "damn boxes" described the packing-cases of furniture or "bloody" her trunks of clothes. Men in a ship had brought the tanks, had rowed them "go row" was plain enough ashore in boats.
No man who wasn't steel all through ever got the V.C. They don't chuck it around on blighters." "That's all very interesting and commendable," said I, "but what has it to do with Gedge?" "He has been slandering the Colonel something dreadful the last few months, sneering at him, saying nothing definite, but insinuatingly taking away his character." "In what way?" I asked.
A more moral set of blameless wasters than the blighters who constitute modern society you never struck. But it reads all right, doesn't it? Of course, every now and then one does hear something genuine, and then it goes in. For instance, have you ever heard of Percy Pook, the bookie? I have got a real ripe thing in about Percy this week, the absolute limpid truth. It will make him sit up a bit.
"You can't 'elp feelin' sorry for the poor blighters," he would say, "but it's us or them, an' every one you knocks over means one of our blokes saved." I have no doubt that the Germans felt the same way about us. At any rate, they thoroughly believed in the policy of attrition, and in carrying it out they often wasted thousands of rounds in sniping every yard of our parapet.
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