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"Good night, miss," said Mo. Some time later he disturbed Phineas, by whose side he slept, from his initial preparation for slumber. "Mac! Is there any book I could learn this blinking lingo from?" "Try Ovid 'Art of Love," replied Phineas sleepily. The spell of night sentry duty had always been Doggie's black hour. To most of the other military routine he had grown hardened or deadened.
In his pedantic way he began to tell her the story of Jeanne, so far as he knew it. He told her of the girl standing in the night wind and rain on the bluff by the turning of the road. He told her of Doggie's insane adventure across No Man's Land to the farm of La Folette. Tears rolled down Peggy's cheeks. She cried, incredulous: "Doggie did that? Doggie?"
I'm so sorry to have kept you poor hungry things waiting." "We've filled up the time amazingly," cried Oliver, waving a silver dish-cover. "What do you think? Doggie's had a fight with Chipmunk and knocked him out." Peggy splashed the milk over the brim of Doggie's cup and into the saucer. There came a sudden flush on her cheek and a sudden hard look into her eyes. "Fighting?
Once a breezy subaltern had selected him as his batman; but Doggie's agonized, "It would be awfully good of you, sir, if you wouldn't mind not thinking of it," and the appeal in his eyes, established the freemasonry of caste and saved him from dreaded intimate relations. "All right, if you'd rather not, Trevor," said the subaltern. "But why doesn't a chap like you try for a commission?"
"You know best, dear," said the gentle Mrs. Conover. "But it's all very upsetting." Then Doggie's letter brought comfort and gladness to the Deanery. It reassured them as to his fate. It healed the wounded family honour. It justified Peggy in playing the game. She took the letter round to Dr.
Doggie would no more have dared address him in terms of familiarity than he would have dared slap the Brigadier-General on the back. And now the honest warrior sought Doggie's patronage. Of the original crowd in England who had transformed Doggie's military existence by making him penny-whistler to the company, only Phineas and himself were left.
Butlers of the old school are apt, like Peddle, to bring in a maddening tray of decanters, syphons, and glasses. You may not believe me, but I haven't touched a drop of whisky since I joined the army." "Why?" asked Doggie. McPhail looked at the long carefully preserved ash of one of Doggie's excellent cigars. "It's all a part of the doctrine of adaptability.
This romance in Doggie's life had moved her as she thought she could never be moved since the death of Oliver. Her thoughts winged themselves back to an afternoon, remote almost as her socked and sashed childhood, when Doggie, immaculately attired in grey and pearl harmonies, had declared, with his little effeminate drawl, that tennis made one so terribly hot.
I ask, because he talks so little of himself. He is so modest." "Oh, many friends. You see, mademoiselle," said Phineas, with a view to setting her mind at rest, "Doggie's an important person in his part of the country. He was brought up in luxury. I know, because I lived with him as his tutor for seven years. His father and mother are dead, and he could go on living in luxury now, if he liked."
And he was going to leave it all. All that it meant in beauty and dignity and ease of life. For what? For horror and filthiness and ugliness, for everything against which his beautiful peacock and ivory room protested. Doggie's last night at Denby Hall was a troubled one.
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