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Updated: June 6, 2025
'I shall have you court- martialled, sir. "'I think, general, I said, 'that I am court-martialled already, for I thought then that the hand of death was upon me, which shows the effect of imagination, for my wounds were not serious, yet I sank down unconscious at the general's feet. He raised me in his arms as if I had been his own son, and thus carried me to my rooms.
According to the doctrine of chances I should have lost nine lives, and according to the rules governing an army in the field I should have been court-martialled. Instead of which, the men caught me up on their shoulders and carried me around the plaza, and Laguerre and Garcia looked on from the steps of the Cathedral and laughed and waved to us.
To make sure, I asked French, English, and American army officers what margin of error they thought excusable after the range was determined. They all agreed that after his range was found an artillery officer who missed it by from fifty to one hundred yards ought to be court-martialled. The Germans "missed" by one mile.
It had already proved the graveyard of many fine ships whose bones still showed when the water fell, and Langdon had no wish to leave his ship there as an everlasting monument to his memory, while he, probably court-martialled, and at any rate having "incurred their Lordships' severe displeasure," left the destroyer service under a cloud which would never disperse.
You see' his glance rested entirely on Mr. Wilder; he studiously overlooked Constance's presence 'this Angelo Fresi, the fellow they are after, got into a quarrel over a gambling debt and struck a superior officer. To avoid being court-martialled he lit out; it happened a month ago in Milan and they've been looking for him ever since.
"Do you know who I am, fellow?" he cried. "I bid you let me pass this instant, or I will have you court-martialled as sure as my name is Robert Clive!" The sentinel drew back, and we passed in, but were immediately met in the courtyard by Mr. Coote himself. "What is the meaning of this performance, sir?" the Colonel asked him sternly.
It is probable that the general had had previous dealings with the British, and therefore possessed a sense of humour so rare to the Teuton, for he passed on without awarding the expected punishment. It is not usual to boast of the fact that one has been court-martialled, but I would not have missed this experience for anything.
Another one of the civil administration crowd almost exactly repeated Jules Keaveney's words at Skilk: "What the hell was Intelligence doing; sleeping?" "General von Schlichten," Colonel Grinell took oblique cognizance of the question. "You've just made, by implication, a most grave charge against my department. If you're not mistaken in what you've just said, I deserve to be court-martialled."
I remimber ould Gilder, when he was our chief in India, used to say that a man who got beyond enjoying beer and a clay pipe at a pinch was either an ass or a coxcomb. He smoked a clay at the mess table himself. Draper, who commanded the division, told him it was unsoldier-like. 'Unsoldier-like be demned, he said. Ged, they nearly court-martialled the ould man for it.
"'Tumble out, Tim, says I, 'or I'll have you court-martialled and shot. "'In the neck, says Tim. But he did manage to tumble out, and finished the last stanzas with a flourish, for the edification of the mounted aid-de-camp. "'Where's the officer of the day? asked the aid, looking suspiciously at Tim's shaky knees.
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