Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 1, 2025
Quintus lay awake, all night, in his truckle-bed; and gloomily resolved to have done with Professorships, and become a soldier. 'If your Serene Highness do still favor me, said Quintus next day, 'I solicit, as the one help for me, an ensign's commission! And persisted rigorously, in spite of all counsellings, promises and outlooks on the professorial side of things.
That ensign's stripe on his sleeve makes him seem a gay young bachelor even if he is a staid old Benedic, and Constance can lend him to you girls for a little while, anyway." "I'm game! No telling which one will be responsible for an elopement, Connie," cried Snap, bending over his pretty young wife to rest his dark hair against hers for a second.
Darrin gained this, and was about to pass in through an opening in the hedge when a figure suddenly appeared in the darkness right ahead of him. A rifle was leveled at the young ensign's breast, and in a steady voice came the hail that set the young ensign's heart to beating fast: "Quien vive" It was the Spanish challenge "Who goes there?" Dave's sword hung at his side.
"That flag must have some meaning to it " Judith hurriedly interposed. "Open it wider, Deerslayer, that we may see the colours." "Well, I pity the ensign that has to shoulder this cloth, and to parade it about on the field. Why 'tis large enough, Judith, to make a dozen of them colours the King's officers set so much store by. These can be no ensign's colours, but a gin'ral's!"
Along with the Captain was Ensign Stubble; who, as the barouche neared the inn, burst out with an exclamation of "By Jove! what a pretty girl"; highly applauding Osborne's choice. Indeed, Amelia dressed in her wedding-pelisse and pink ribbons, with a flush in her face, occasioned by rapid travel through the open air, looked so fresh and pretty, as fully to justify the Ensign's compliment.
"My father will not join in anything to help me. How much will an ensign's commission cost?" "I think four or five hundred pounds. Ragnor would pay half, if your father would pay half." Then Ian rose to his feet, and his eyes blazed with a fire no one had ever seen there before.
On the fifth round Vaneski got a three, and his face froze as Mike dealt himself a second ace. Mike reached for the twenty. "You deal yourself a mean hand, Commander," said Vaneski evenly. Mike glanced at him sharply, but there was only a wry grin on the young ensign's face. "Luck of the idiot," said Mike as he pocketed the twenty. "It's time for lunch."
It was the original thought that pie would be the greatest attraction, but it was difficult to secure stoves with ovens adequate for baking pies, and after the ensign's experiment with doughnuts it was found that they could more easily be made and were quite as acceptable to the American boy. Meantime, the pie was coming into its own, back in Demange also.
There were ten men at the oars, a cockswain at the yoke-ropes, and with him in the stern-sheets a young man in an ensign's uniform, who lifted his voice as the boat neared the lee quarter, and shouted: "Rig a side-ladder aboard that ship!"
It was at first my design to buy the youth a Pair of Colours, and to let him see the world and the usages of honourable warfare for a year or two; but my Lilias could not bear the thought of her young Ensign's coming home without an arm or a leg, or perchance being slain in some desperate conflict with savage Indians, or scarcely less savage Americans; and I did not press my plan of giving Edward for a time to the service of the King.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking