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Take that chair by your aunt, child, and she will give you some tea. And accordingly I placed myself under Aunt Philippa's wing, while Jill and a boy-officer with a budding moustache waited on me. The rest of the evening passed very pleasantly. I had a long conversation with Miss Gillespie in the inner drawing-room while Sara and Jill played duets: of course our subject was Jill.
You come here often you are very kind to her oh, yes, very kind, and Nina is grateful for kindness you sing with her what do you call them? songs of love. Ah, yes, the chansons amoureuses are very beautiful very charming but sometimes they break hearts." "I tell you I had no idea of anything of the kind," he said for to be rated by the little boy-officer was a new experience.
"Oh, we don't want foreigners in English opera; why don't they take a barrel-organ through the streets, or a couple of canaries in a cage?" Nor was that all; for here was Mlle. Girond; and the smart little boy-officer, as she came along the passage, was gayly singing to herself, "Le rôti, la salade, L'amour, la promenade À deux dans les Dans les Deux dans les À deux dans les bluets!"
Girond as Capitaine Crépin in 'The Squire's Daughter." "Send round to some stationer's shop, will you, and get me that?" When the messenger returned with the photograph, Lionel, rather timidly, put it before her; but, indeed, there was nothing in the costume of Mlle. Girond to startle any one the uniform of the boy-officer was so obviously a compromise. Nina glanced at it thoughtfully.
He always kept his kit ready to pack; so that he could have marched anywhere within two hours of receiving the order. And, though only a mere boy-officer, he began to learn the duties of an adjutant, so that he might be fit for promotion whenever the chance should come. Months wore on and Wolfe was still at Ghent.
The command to "halt" was enforced by a single rifle shot over the fugitives' heads but they still kept on their flight. Then the boy-officer snatched a carbine from one of his men, a volley rang out from the little troop the shots of the privates mercifully high, those of the officer and sergeant leveled with wounded pride and full of deliberate purpose.
He would surely have influence enough to keep the lad from hankering after his great uncle's pernicious power. He was aware that the dominion did in fact belong to the owner of the soldiers, but he thought that he could control this boy-officer, and thus have his legions at the command of the Republic.
And once again the big dining-hall of Castle Dare was ablaze with candles; and Janet was there, gravely listening to the garrulous talk of the boy-officer; and Keith Macleod, in his dress tartan; and the noble-looking old lady at the head of the table, who more than once expressed to her guest, in that sweetly modulated and gracious voice of hers, how sorry she was he had encountered so bad a day for the first day of his visit.
Girond only too ready to throw away the French novel she was reading. Nina had to disappear into the dressing-room; but this small boy-officer in the gay uniform, with his or her pretty gesticulation and charm of broken English, was quite willing to entertain Mr. Moore, though at times she would forget all about him and walk across to the full-length mirror and twist her small moustache.
After having once more visited Oscar, in the company of Phiobaire bhig, Macleod went up again to the brilliantly lit hall; and here he found that a further number of his friends had arrived. Among them was young Ogilvie, in the tartan of the Ninety-third Highlanders; and very smart indeed the boy-officer looked in his uniform. Mrs.
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