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Sam said scornfully, his irritation much increased. "How do YOU know so much about it?" "Just for the main and simple reason," Penrod replied, with dignified finality. And at that, Sam felt a powerful impulse to do violence upon the person of his comrade-in-arms.
As to what that loss meant we have the testimony of his chief and comrade-in-arms. "If I had had Jackson with me," said Lee after Gettysburg, "I should have won a complete victory." This, however, belongs to a later period. Burnside, succeeding Hooker, met at Lee's hands with an even more crushing defeat at Fredericksburg.
Another old acquaintance and comrade-in-arms the redoubtable Patrick O'Tigg a true son of the "Sad." The two worthies, when first seen, were seated as described both engaged in a very similar occupation cooking. It was by the most simple process that of the roti.
As Tom's face fell, she burst out giggling and a second later Phyllis Newton emerged from the kitchen. Brown-eyed, with long dark hair, Phyl was the daughter of Tom Sr.'s old comrade-in-arms and lifelong chum "Uncle Ned" Newton. Like Sandy, she was seventeen. "You didn't think I'd miss this rare evening, did you, Tom?" she said, laughing. "After all, it isn't often we see you two."
But meantime, perhaps, you'll accept five shillings from a grateful comrade-in-arms. Oswald felt heart-felt sorry to wound the good Colonel's feelings, but he had to remark that he had only done his duty, and he was sure no British scout would take five bob for doing that.
A man never knows to what boundaries a woman's jealousy spreads. He feared lest, if he persisted, she might impute to him less lofty motives than the desire to play fair by a comrade-in-arms who had gone West. Something stirred behind him. He swung about and found himself staring into the face of the stranger who had accosted him on the pavement.
"Thank you, Mr. Black," returned Wallace; "of course I shall only be too glad to escape from the consequences of my unfortunate position; but do not misunderstand me: although neither a spy nor a Covenantor I am a loyal subject, and would not now be a deserter if that character had not been forced upon me, first by the brutality of the soldiers with whom I was banded, and then by the insolence of my comrade-in-arms to your daughter "
Bones was startled by his sudden entrance. "Well, good-night, sir, we'll talk that matter over some other time," he said quickly, pulling his wideawake well over his face as he went out, and giving the message-boy a prolonged stare. The boy paid no regard to him, but, turning to Aspel, introduced himself as Peter Pax. "What! the comrade-in-arms of my friend Phil Maylands?" asked Aspel.
So when the Judge invited them all to keep him company while he supped, the curate told the story of the captive at the table. In telling it he pretended to have been a captive in the hands of the Turks and the Algerians and a comrade-in-arms of the Captain.
A few minutes later Denise remembered the enclosure a letter in a thick white envelope, which was still lying on her desk. She opened it. "I think I have the pleasure of addressing the daughter of an old comrade-in-arms, and this must be my excuse for at once approaching my object. I hear by accident that you have inherited from the late Mattei Perucca his small property near Olmeta in Corsica.
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