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Then Charles went upstairs, and was introduced to the cornet's mother. He accepted his new position with dull carelessness. Life was getting very worthless. And all this time, had he but known it, money and a home, and sweet little Mary Corby, who had loved him ever since he was a boy, were waiting for him.
He could see the Rubens above the mantel at the hôtel in Rochelle, the assembly at the Candlestick, the guardroom at the Louvre, the kitchens along the quays, or the cabarets in the suburbs. A camp song rises above the clinking of the bottles and glasses; a wench slaps a cornet's face for a pilfered kiss; a drunken guardsman quarrels over an unduly heavy die.
His Lordship tells me that the army will begin to fall down to the coast in a day or two, so it may be a some time before I see you again. Have you money?" "A bare trifle, but I'll not further rob ye, lad, till I get to the end of my purse. "Do not fear to take from me, sir. A major's pay is very different from a cornet's.
It was late before Lord Fairholm rode up to the cornet's. "Did you think I was never coming?" he asked as he entered Rupert's quarters. "The affair has created quite an excitement, and just as I was starting, two hours back, a message came to me to go to headquarters.
Having passed two streets he turned into a lane and lifting the skirt of his coat sat down on the ground in the shadow of a fence. 'A regular cornet's daughter! he thought about Maryanka. 'Won't even have a lark the devil! But just wait a bit. The approaching footsteps of a woman attracted his attention. He began listening, and laughed all by himself.
She did not appear to hear the gallant cornet's denial that he cared particularly for that song. "What I meant was, that gentleman speaks I have fought for Italy; I am an English hero and have fought for Italy, because of an Italian child; but now I am wounded and a prisoner. When you shoot me, cruel Austrians, I shall hear her voice and think of nothing else, so you cannot hurt me."
She did not appear to hear the gallant cornet's denial that he cared particularly for that song. "What I meant was, that gentleman speaks I have fought for Italy; I am an English hero and have fought for Italy, because of an Italian child; but now I am wounded and a prisoner. When you shoot me, cruel Austrians, I shall hear her voice and think of nothing else, so you cannot hurt me."
'I had it right befure I come up, he says, 'but I missed me holt whin th' crowd come. Me heart's broke, he says. 'Th' cornet's not ye'er insthrument, says Dorsey. 'Ye shud thry to play th' base dhrum. It's asier." "Is that all that's going on?" asked Mr. McKenna. "That an' th' death iv wan iv Hinnissy's goats, Marguerite. No, no, not that wan. That's Odalia. Th' wan with th' brown spots.
"It's rather a hard thing to drop from the chance of forty thousand a year to a pension of a couple of hundred, isn't it, Carrington?" said Reginald, as the two young men dined together in the cornet's quarters, a fortnight after the scene in Arlington Street. "It's rather hard, isn't it, Carrington?"
He afterwards ordered me to trace, with promptitude, a landscape from nature, which I executed with equal success; and he then gave me a cornet's commission in his body guards. Each mark of bounty from the monarch increased an ardour already great, inspired me with gratitude, and the first of my wishes was to devote my whole life to the service of my King and country.
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