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His platoon sergeant, Pop Donnelly, was a scraggly "old soldier," worn thin with drink. In the past he had spent unnumbered weeks in the guard-house, but recently, thanks to the drill-master famine, he had been elevated to his present pinnacle. His complexion was full of shell-holes it bore an unmistakable resemblance to those aerial photographs of "the battle-field at Blank."
Besides, he rides better than anybody except the drill-master at White Plains; he rides like a gentleman -and looks like one, with that infernally cool way of his. No, Ormond isn't very popular." "Because he looks like a gentleman?" "Because he has the bad breeding of one. Nobody can find out anything about him." "Isn't it bad breeding to try?" Hallam laughed. "Technically.
Captain John Underhill was a brave though somewhat bumptious soldier, who had fought under the Prince of Orange in the War of the Netherlands, and had been employed as temporal drill-master in the church-militant in New England. He did good service for the colonists in the war with the Pequot Indians, and indeed wherever there was any fighting to be done.
"Will it never end, this battle of Jew and Greek?" he said, half to himself, so that she did not know whether he meant it personally or generally. Then, as she tore herself away, "I fear I have shocked you," he said tenderly. "But one thing I have never blasphemed Life. Is not enjoyment an implicit prayer, a latent grace? After all, God is our Father, not our drill-master.
In the human soul there is seldom any real perplexity. Only the body reasons; the soul knows. He knew this now. He knew, too, that there is a greater drill-master than that which was now disciplining his mind and body the spiritual will that there is a higher sentiment than the awakened instinct of mental and physical obedience the occult loyalty of the spirit.
Although ready, mechanical, and invariably docile in the manual and physical duties of a soldier, which endeared him to the German drill-master, he was still invincibly ignorant as to its purport, or even the meaning and structure of the military instruments he handled or vacantly looked upon.
Yet even West Point occasionally varies from the "Tactics," as, for instance, in requiring the line officers to face down the line, when each is giving the order to his company. In our strictest Massachusetts regiments this is not done. It needs an artist's eye to make a perfect drill-master.
He stood some inches above the average height, and was built up in a manner that suggested the handiwork of a British drill-master, his figure being both muscular and symmetrical. Besides, there was on his skin that rich brown shadow which is the result only of the forces of the sun and wind, a life in the open air. This color gave peculiar emphasis to the yellow hair and mustache.
And and if there is more to give now it was yours when it came to me. "Do you think I am too young to know what I am saying? Solitude is a teacher. I I am still a scholar, perhaps, but I think that you could teach me what my drill-master, Solitude, could not . . . if it it is true you love me."
That big chap who lives at the lodge, and helped lift down your box. He had a shot through him, and nearly had his head cut off with a tully something. He'll tell you. He has a pension, and is our drill-master, and teaches boys riding." This was interesting, and I felt a desire to know old Lomax. "What's your mother?" said my companion, breaking in upon my musing. "A lady," I said proudly.
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