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I could, of course, order him to any duty, and he would promptly obey; but his tongue, like the hand of Douglas, was his own. I knew, also, that when he got ready, which would be when some incident of camp-life inspired him, he would be as garrulous as ever.
Many people have been happy in camps, and, indeed, camp-life has become one of the features of our higher civilization, and this, from what she had heard, must be a camp above the common. So, think what she might, she determined to make no open complaint. If it were possible for her to be happy here, she would be happy. As for Margery, no determination was needed in her case.
Here again, what a picture of the camp-life of the age; the darkness of night, the great central fire with the sixty grim and redoubtable warriors armed with keen axes, terrible and ready for action, and the sixty stern and terrific Scots with their massive swords. The admirable manner of the narrative is as striking as the fierce vigor of the life portrayed.
Zeke, sullen toward his jeering comrades, but immensely elated in secret, had shaken the dust snow and slush rather of camp-life from his feet the day before. He had the grace to wait till the time of his enlistment expired, and that was more than could be said of many. It spoke well for the little Opinquake quota that only two others besides Zeke availed themselves of their liberty.
It was hard for him to leave her, hard for her to let him go, but the duty was imperative, and so when at last the frosty air grew keener as the small hours of night crept on, he stood with his arms about her, nor thought it unworthy of a soldier that his own tears mingled with hers as he bade her good-by, kissing her again and again, and calling her his precious wife, whose memory would make his camp-life brighter and shorten the days of absence.
The crowd made a break for the door, and in a moment more they were inside, laughing and shouting. Five minutes later they might all have been found splashing around in the swimming-pool, making up for the lost swims of the past few days, their bodies brown as berries, and as healthy as free, camp-life in mountain air could make them. Mr. Allen shook Willis by the hand.
"I'll get some of the way tonight," I said; but my heart sank at the thought; for I was tired out. "No, young master," said one of the men kindly, "you stop with us for tonight. Come to supper with us. Us 'ave rabbits on the fire." Their fortnight of war had given them a touch of that comradeship which camp-life always gives.
Right face forward file left March!" AFTER the flush of excitement of returning to his old regiment and meeting his comrades after the process of readjusting himself to the changed relations made by death, wounds, discharges, resignations and promotions after the days had brought a settling back into the old routine of camp-life, there developed in Shorty's heart growing homesickness for Maria Klegg.
There were plenty of fish-lines, and tin pans and kettles, and knives and steel forks, and matches, and scissors and twine and needles, and the endless variety of accoutrements necessary to a state of highly-civilized camp-life. There were plates and mugs and pewter teaspoons, Mrs.
Then Evans said, 'Well, I'm blowed, which was the first sign of surprise he had shown. By six o'clock on that same evening they reached their depôt, and passed from abject discomfort to rest and peace. From this time onward their camp-life was wholly, pleasant, except to Lashly who had an attack of snow-blindness.
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