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"Of course, my dear fellow," said I rather tartly, for I did not like the wind-up of his sentence. It was unthinkable that an officer and a gentleman should inveigle a brother-officer into a solemn promise to do anything dishonourable. "Of course. Anything you like." "One is to look after the old mother " "That goes without promising," said I.
You had better write and tell him that the Dacre he means is dead. Your brother-officer belongs to another branch of the family. That ought to satisfy everybody and no great harm done, what?" He uttered the last word with a tentative, disarming smile.
"I had no wish to come here, but your men insisted on bringing me. My only object was to find out what had become of a brother-officer who should have got back to camp long before this. I give you the word of a soldier that I did not want to find out anything about your position, and whatever I may have seen, which is precious little, will be told to no one."
He put a hand on the boy's shoulder, and drew him in. "Lord Nelson," he said, "I believe this is the most gallant lad in either Service." The great captain came towards him. The boy saw him through a mist. "Kit," said Nelson, with that wonderful smile of his "I may call you Kit? Your father was always Kit to me will you shake the hand of a brother-officer, who's proud to call himself such?"
Catinat asked what he wanted with him, and Charreau replied that if he would enter the guard-house he would learn; as under such circumstances any examination was to be avoided, Catinat tried to force his way out; whereupon he was seized by Charreau and his brother-officer, and Catinat seeing that resistance would be not only useless but harmful, allowed himself to be taken to the guard-room.
'He shall drum till the hair flies about the place, answered the second, with an unusual flight of rhetoric, as he slipped on his overcoat and went out. 'You are not going? asked the students as Greif showed signs of following his brother-officer. 'I cannot leave Rex waiting, objected Greif. 'Send for him to come here!
"And, bein' quick, you know, and sharp as they make 'em, you know, my wife recognised the crest of an old acquaintance cut upon the stone. I knew the man myself" declared Major Bingo "and a better never stepped in leather. A brother-officer of the Chiefs, too, and a rippin' good fellow! Dicky Mildare, of the Grey Hussars." "Mildare!" repeated Saxham. "You understand, Saxham, the name did it.
"'Cause I know how 'tis myself. Onct a lady fell into my goober basket an' smashed 'em so 't I was heart-broke. An' if ever ever in this world I can earn a hull dollar I'll come right straight back here an' pay it. Sure, sure, sure." Now, during all this relation, though the policeman's face seemed to soften and grow more like that of his brother-officer of Elbow Lane, it did not grow less grave.
She even ceased to miss the admiration she was accustomed to; what was amiable and good in her character and there was much regained the ascendant; her host and hostess congratulated themselves on having so agreeable an inmate as much as she did herself on the judicious move she had made, till her equanimity was disturbed by learning that Mr Gaskoin was expecting a visitor, and that this visitor was his old friend and brother-officer, Major Elliott, the person of all others, Vincent Dunbar excepted, she had the greatest desire to avoid.
The monotony of my grass-plat was only broken by the marrow-bones and beef-ribs which my dog first picked and then played with under my windows. I was as fond of him as my brother-officer was of his flowers.
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