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If I married her, and there was something good to be had, and old Bannockburn, let us say, was at the Horse Guards, then Lady Ban wouldn't have Olivia; and if I didn't marry her, and there was the same situation with old Englemere in command, then he wouldn't have me. There it is in a nutshell simply nothing to choose." They proceeded to stroll aimlessly up and down the lawn.
It was conceded that when generals like Lord Englemere or Lord Bannockburn passed away, it would be to such men as Rupert Ashley the number of them could be counted on the fingers of your two hands! that the country would look for its defenders. They were young men, comparatively, as yet; but they were waiting and in training. It was a national asset to know that they were there.
The contingency which might bring about such an accession had not, however, yet arisen, and might never arise; in the meantime, Lord Roberts gave a ready ear to Hickman's application, which, after some weeks of delay, he answered in the following letter, which was at once communicated to Carson and those in his immediate confidence: "ENGLEMERE, ASCOT, BERKS. "4th June, 1913.
Experience enabled him to create his ideal by a process of elimination. Many a time, as he watched some great general's wife Lady Englemere, let us say, or Lady Bannockburn receive her guests, he said to himself, "That is exactly what my wife shall not be."
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