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Updated: June 25, 2025
Do you understand?" "Ay, ay, sir," came a cheery answer from out of the darkness. Behind the Ensign ran Major Dodley, swearing, and also shouting: "Corporal of the guard! Turn out the guard! Quick! This way!" Then all other sounds were drowned in the roar of the passing train.
At the same time he ordered a horse on which he might ride to the city for further details of the stupendous event. As he was about to depart, Spence Cuthbert and her escort, returning from their ride, dashed up to the doorway. "Have you heard the news?" cried Ridge, barely nodding to Dodley. "Yes," replied Spence. "Isn't it dreadful? Mr.
"I would rather go as a private, father." "I would rather have you, son; though it would be a great disappointment to your mother." "She need not know, for I will go to some distant camp before enlisting. I wouldn't serve in the same regiment with Herman Dodley, anyhow." "Of course not, son." "I suppose his appointment is political as well as the one intended for me?"
To give him further assurance that everything was all right, Ridge said: "It is my duty, you know, to go in the first boat that offers, since Major Dodley undoubtedly left some time since. He said he would only wait two minutes, and as that was fully five minutes ago, he ought to be ashore by now."
Have searched ship without discovering trace of him. He has undoubtedly deserted." "Some persons are fools occasionally," remarked the big General, "while others are never anything else. I don't think Dodley belongs to the former class." After leaving headquarters, and while making his way back to camp, our hero was in a state of hardly-to-be-repressed excitement.
It was generally on washing-days, when Mrs Dodley filled the place with steam early in the morning by lighting the copper fire, and then seeming to be making calico puddings to boil and send an unpleasant soapy odour through the house.
At the same time he could not imagine what he had done to incur the displeasure of his superiors. It was all a mystery, and a decidedly unpleasant one. That the order should come through Dodley, too, whom he particularly disliked, was adding insult to injury.
As I came down with the box, Mrs Dodley said "Good-bye" very warmly and wetly on my face, giving as she said: "Mind you send me all your stockings and shirts and I'll always put them right for you, my dear, and Goodbye." She hurried away, and as soon as my box was in the cart I ran down the garden to say "Good-bye" to Ike; but he had gone home, so I was told, and I came back disappointed.
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