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Updated: May 1, 2025
"I never see a young gentleman of your age and mettle but I wish he could see the wisdom of putting both to the best purpose on the field." "With your cursed foreigners, I suppose you mean," said the young fellow. "I could scarcely go as a private pikeman like yourself." "And now when I think of it, I am afraid you have neither the height nor width for even so ornamental a post as an ensign's."
"My compliments to the captain, and I will report immediately," Ensign Dave replied. Turning, he put on his sword and drew on his white gloves. Then, with a glance over himself, he left his quarters, walking briskly toward the commanding officer's quarters. Captain Gales, at his desk, received the young ensign's salute. On the desk lay the papers in the matter of the night before.
I was in service three years earlier. Should he wish for an ensign's commission, I am at your service." "Ah, Sir William, that might have been, a year or so ago, but now he may have to fight General Gage." "The gods forbid! Our poor general!" "Mistress Wynne is a rank Whig," put in Mrs. Ferguson. "She reads Dickinson's 'Farmer's Letters, and all the wicked treason of that man Adams."
In revenge, the landlord was undermost, and the Ensign's arms were working up and down his face and body like the flaps of a paddle-wheel: the man of war had clearly the best of it.
The merchant added, that he had taken care of Henry from regard to his father, but that, obliged by his own failure in business to quit the country, he must thenceforward resign the charge. He farther observed, that the army was now the young man's only resource, and, on taking leave, he put into Henry's hands a 50l. note, and an ensign's commission.
But Whistler put himself in the ensign's way and, saluting smartly, asked a question: "Beg pardon, sir! Did you find anybody aboard who could translate that torn letter I picked up in the old witch's cabin?" "That letter addressed to Franz Linder? No, Morgan; there is nobody aboard the cutter who is familiar with German.
The third captain was Captain Judgment; to him was given ten thousand men. His ensign's name was Mr. The fourth captain was Captain Execution; to him was given ten thousand men. His ensign was Mr. These four captains, as I said, had every one of them under his command ten thousand men; all of good fidelity to the King, and stout at their military actions.
She was quiet now, gazing wide-eyed into nowhere, and Medart decided to try his new ability. He sent a faint, wordlessly-questing thought at her, and was rewarded with a mental image she had of herself. She was clad in Imperial Navy service blue with an ensign's stripe, standing on the bridge of a ship.
I do!" exclaimed little Gustavus, springing from the ensign's arms. "I care for her! She is not an impertinent girl; and I'll give up seeing the kettle-drum, and go home with her directly, with all my heart."
You know my situation in life, and you know your own: I have nothing more than the poor provision of an ensign's commission to depend on; your sole dependence is on your mother; should any act of disobedience defeat your expectations, how wretched must your lot be with me! O, Amelia! how ghastly an object to my mind is the apprehension of your distress!
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