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This exhausted the possibilities of the first street, and the party debouched into the second, which was long and straggling, and composed entirely of small houses. "Now for a bit of the retail business!" said Master Cockerell resignedly. "Sergeant M'Nab, what is the strength of 'C' Company?"
We have dodged the missiles of the Boche to an extent which justifies us in claiming that we have followed the progress of their war with a rather more than average degree of continuity. We were the last of the old crowd, too. Kemp has got his Brigade, young Cockerell has gone to be a Staff Captain, and you and I are here. Some of the others dropped out far too soon. Young Lochgair, old Blaikie "
His first letter on the National Gallery, in 1847, has been noticed. Now in 1857 question was raised of removing the National Gallery from Trafalgar Square. Faraday, Prof. Cockerell, and George Richmond.
28th. April 2nd. To Christchurch. On the 4th, in torrents of rain, we fixed, with Cockerell, the exact site of Foxholes House. May 8th. Ball to the Prince of Wales at the French Embassy. Duchess of Edinburgh there. Lord Hertford, the Tory Lord Chamberlain, omitted me from the Court ball this year, for the first time since 1847.
It consisted entirely of elderly gentlemen in ill-fitting khaki, clumping along upon their flat feet and smoking clay pipes. They carried shovels on their shoulders, and made not the slightest response when called upon by the soldierly old corporal who led them to give Mr. Cockerell "eyes left!"
"Stop a moment, Alphonso! I have forgotten those condemned machine-gunners, as usual. Strafe them! Come on! Once more into the breach, Alphonso! There is a little side-alley down here that we have not tried." The indefatigable Cockerell turned down the Rue Gambetta, followed by Alphonso, faint but resigned. "Here is the very place!" announced Cockerell almost at once. "This house, Number Five.
"What does she say?" inquired Cockerell. "She say dis' ouse no good, sair! She 'ave seven children, and one malade seek." "Let me see," commanded the practical officer. He insinuated himself as politely as possible past his reluctant opponent, and walked down the narrow passage into the kitchen. Here he turned, and inquired "Er ou est la pauvre petite chose?"
"As I passed the tail of their company one of their subs turned to another and said quite loud, 'My God, what swine!" "Showed his rotten ignorance," commented Cockerell. At this moment Mr. Waddell, whose thoughts were never disturbed by conversation around him, broke in with a question. "What does a Tommy do," he inquired, "if he meets an officer wheeling a wheelbarrow?"
He sent the MS. bit by bit, as it was written, to Miss Savage for her criticism and approval. He had the usual difficulty about finding a publisher. Chapman and Hall refused the book on the advice of George Meredith, who was then their reader, and in the end he published it at his own expense through Messrs. Trubner. Mr. Sydney C. Cockerell told me that in 1912 Mr.
You fellows need a good rest and no worries, I know. Good-morning." At ten minutes to eleven Cockerell found the Quartermaster-Sergeant and party, wiping their mustaches and visibly refreshed, at the exact spot where he had left them; and the hunt for billets began. "A" Company were easily provided for, a derelict tobacco factory being encountered at the head of the first street.
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