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Updated: May 8, 2025
Victorine's eyes filled with tears at the words, and the widow checked herself at a sign from Mme. Couture. "If we could only see him!" said the Commissary-General's widow; "if I could speak to him myself and give him his wife's last letter! I have never dared to run the risk of sending it by post; he knew my handwriting "
Thus terminated, my lord, one of the brightest achievements of the undergraduate career. I enclose a list of the wounded, as also an account of the various articles returned in the commissary-general's list. Harry Nesbitt: severely wounded; no coat nor hat; a black-eye; left shoe missing. Cecil Cavendish: face severely scratched; supposed to have received his wound in the attack upon the kitchen.
"We will pass on. After the body of Count Samoval had been removed from the courtyard, did Mullins, my butler, come to you?" "Yes, Sir Terence." "What was his message? Please tell the court." "He brought me a letter with instructions that it was to be forwarded first thing in the morning to the Commissary-General's office." "Did he make any statement beyond that when he delivered that letter?"
To be sure, he had served in the commissary-general's department for a number of years, and nothing instils such habits as this. "The commissaries are to the army what the special pleaders are to the bar," observed my friend Power, "dry dogs, not over creditable on the whole, but devilish useful."
"There was," he resumed, then, "a certain matter connected with the Commissary-General's department which was of the greatest urgency, yet which, under stress of work, had been postponed until the morrow. It was concerned with some tents for General Picton's division at Celorico.
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