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What drill?" "Don't try to be a clever fool. Drill in the Gym." "'Cause there isn't any. The volunteer cadet-corps is broke up disbanded dead putrid corrupt -stinkin'. An' if you look at me like that, Beetle, I'll slay you too... Oh, yes, an' I'm goin' to be reported to the Head for swearin'."
They begin after I've dismissed 'em practisin' tricks; but out into the open they will not come not for ever so. The 'ole thing is pre-posterous. If you're a cadet-corps, I say, be a cadet-corps, instead o' hidin' be'ind locked doors." "And what do the authorities say about it?" "That beats me again." The Sergeant spoke fretfully. "I go to the 'Ead an' 'e gives me no help.
He was going down into the West country, to spread light in somebody's benighted constituency. Wouldn't it be a good idea if, armed with the General's recommendation, he, taking the admirable and newly established cadet-corps for his text, spoke a few words "Just talked to the boys a little eh? You know the kind of thing that would be acceptable; and he'd be the very man to do it.
If he remained in Russia his mother sneered and showed hatred of him; if he journeyed in Western Europe crowds gathered about his coach to jeer at his ugliness. Most of those who have seen Gillray's caricature of him, issued in the height of English spite at Paul's homage to Bonaparte, have thought it hideously overdrawn; but those who have seen the portrait of Paul in the Cadet-Corps of St.
Thrice had the guard been maltreated and thrice had the corps dealt out martial law to the offender. The school raged. What was the use, they asked, of a cadet-corps which none might see? Mr. King congratulated them on their invisible defenders, and they could not parry his thrusts. Foxy was growing sullen and restive.
"Here in the gym till you are fit an' capable to be taken out on the road." The Sergeant threw a chest. "For all the Northam cads to look at? Not good enough, Foxibus." "Well, we won't make a point of it. You learn your drill first, an' later we'll see." "Hullo," said Ansell of Macrea's, shouldering through the mob. "What's all this about a giddy cadet-corps?"
The official hour of punishment was long passed, but no one thought of that. They were backing up Stalky Stalky in deadly fear lest his voice should crack. "He does you credit, Sergeant," was the visitor's comment. "A good drill and good material to drill. Now, it's an extraordinary thing: I've been lunching with your head-master and he never told me you had a cadet-corps in the College."
"You can't expect a chap to do that just to please you, Foxy." "Ah, that's true. Still, if you could manage it and you, Muster Beetle it would give you a big start when the cadet-corps is formed. I expect the General will recommend it." They raided Keyte's very much at their own sweet will, for the old man, who knew them well, was deep in talk with Foxy.
Mr. Raymond Martin, beyond question, was born in a gutter, and bred in a board-school, where they played marbles. The volunteer cadet-corps fell in next Monday, depressedly, with a face of shame. Even then, judicious silence might have turned the corner. Said Foxy: "After a fine speech like what you 'eard night before last, you ought to take 'old of your drill with re-newed activity.
If he remained in Russia, his mother sneered and showed hatred to him; if he journeyed in Western Europe, crowds gathered about his coach to jeer at his ugliness. Most of those who have seen Gillray's caricature of him, issued in the height of English spite at Paul's homage to Bonaparte, have thought it hideously overdrawn; but those who have seen the portrait of Paul in the Cadet-Corps at St.
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