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Updated: May 14, 2025
"He come in to what's that place, Dike? Hoboken yesterday only. An' he sent a dispatch to the farm. Can't you read our letters, Dike, that you didn't know we was here now? And then he's only got an hour more here. They got to go to Camp Grant to be, now, demobilized. He come out to Minnie's on a chance. Ain't he big!" But Dike and his father were looking at each other quietly. Then Dike spoke.
Recently demobilized, he wore the bizarre combination of military and civilian clothes that all over France symbolized the transition from war to peace black coat encroaching upon stained blue trousers, khaki puttees, evidence of international intimacy and most brilliant emblem of freedom a black and white checked cap, put on backwards.
He was the last person one would have imagined to be a distinguished soldier in the Great War. We talked pleasantly of indifferent things till the cigars were lit he was always a charming companion, possessing a gentle and somewhat plaintive humour and then he began, against his habit, to speak of himself. Like thousands of demobilized officers he was looking around for some opening in civil life.
To you a demobilized hero is nothing. But instead of practising his tricks during the war to amuse you, he has been fighting for his country. And he has earned this." She flashed from her bosom a white-enamelled cross depending from a red ribbon. "Voila! Not Chevalier but Officier de la Legion d'Honneur!" With both pudgy arms outstretched she held the audience for the tense moment.
A considerable proportion of those forces must remain in Europe during the period of occupation, and those which are brought home will be transported and demobilized at heavy expense for months to come. The interest on our war debt must of course be paid and provision made for the retirement of the obligations of the Government which represent it.
He was asked across the street twice today. Have you come from Russia? Demobilized?" "Yes, quite demobilized," I answered. "I must see Mr. Botkin right now, so won't you please tell him about me as soon as he returns. Don't worry about the kitchen I cannot stay here: I'd rather sit outside." He showed me through the dining room into the front hall. From there I could see the Mansion quite well.
One man struggled with Narayan Singh and kept him busy with his bulk so wedged across the opening that Grim and Hadad were as good as demobilized out in the corridor; and the other two tackled me like a pair of butchers hacking at a maddened bull.
An' I'd ruther 'ave the beltin' from my ole man, even wivout no kipper, than 'ave us allers lookin' at each other as if we was wooden images. Even a beltin' shows as 'ow a man 'as some regard for 'is daughter." "It do," said Cook. "Pity is, you ain't 'ad more of it, that's the only thing!" "Demobilized! Oh, Bob truly?" "Truly and really," said Bob. "At least, I shall be in twenty-seven days.
Possibly these detective stories were a side-line of Mr. Gould's, or possibly my regiment was the one anti-Gould regiment in the Army. At any rate, I was demobilized without any acquaintance with the Won by a Neck stories. There must be something about the followers of racing which makes them different from the followers of any other sport.
"Uncle Carr gave up the ranch when he went into Congress, and Darkie and all the other ponies were left at Buller's Creek. She wouldn't have been happy off the prairie, or I'd have begged to have her. Lenox? Why, he's still in France; but I suppose he'll be demobilized soon, and going back to Harvard. He wants to be a professor, not a ranchman. He's a fearfully clever boy.
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