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I don't know but what it might be that there smooth young 'un who dosses hisself up to look like an English gent. If it ain't him, it's that queer-eyed, big, fat fellow; only I suppose it can't be him, because old Tipsy Job says he's friends. How comes it, then," he continued, speaking with energy, "that the Frenchman has had to do with our being prisoners? Here, I can't think.
Bella lay back on her cushions, weak and exhausted, and when the Dosses at length went away she gave a sigh of relief. "What did they come for to-night?" she said thoughtfully. "Well, Bella, Doss had heard a bit of bad news and thought it as well to put you on your guard; but finding you like this put it out of his head, I suppose." "Bad news? What do you mean? He's not married, is he?"
Jaggers dosses in the after-control. It's a bit breezy up there, isn't it, Old Bird?" The Old Bird signified that the rigours of Arctic exploration were as nothing to what he had undergone. "And your swimming-jacket the one Aunt Jessie sent you? The outfitter said it was quite comfortable to wear. I hope you always do wear it at sea, in case in case you should ever need it." Her son chuckled.
If the Dosses are good enough for me, they are good enough for my husband." "My dear wife, they are not good enough for you. There is the whole truth. Why are you so altered? Why will you not listen to me and take my advice as you used to do? Have you forgotten how happy we once were with each other?" There was a little break in his voice, but Bella was too incensed to heed it.
As he tramps along the street, B Company Sergeant-Major challenges Corporal Rogers to a boxing match on the morrow; Second Lieutenant White, who is new to war, sits in his billet and, by the light of a candle stuck in a bottle, traces the distance to the nearest town on the off chance that he will get leave to visit it; the doctor demands of his new landlady, in the most execrable French, where he can find a field suitable for "le football"; and Private Wilson, as he "dosses down" on the floor, suggests sleepily to Private Jones that he will be thirsty in the afternoon and that Private Jones has been owing him a drink since that day in Ouderdom three weeks ago.
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