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He was an ex-captain of dragoons, a martyr to gout, and addicted to Burgundy, which necessitated his resorting to the waters, causing him, as he said, between his appetites and the penance he paid for them, to lead the life of a pendulum. My father was in a tempered gay mood, examining a couple of the county newspapers. One abused him virulently; he was supported by the other.
He was of that rare figure of man which looks well whether clad for the gymnasium or the ball, upon which clothing does not merely hang, but which fills out and dignifies the apparel that may be worn. In height the ex-captain was just below the six-foot mark which so often means stature but not strength, and he carried every inch of his size with proportions which indicated vigour and activity.
At times I feared that the Patriots would give way, and on one occasion the bishop and his followers had nearly succeeded in breaking our line; but the regiment of the Cauca coming up, flushed with their previous success, charged the enemy and drove them back headlong the bishop and his secretary, the ex-captain of dragoons, setting the example, and scampering off at a rate which made it difficult to overtake them.
"I am learning the important lesson that in work as in warfare the man counts for nothing the service that can be got out of him is the only thing considered by those in command. I must remember all that, if ever I am in a position to make a bargain for the sale of my services." It was in this spirit that the young ex-Captain entered upon his new career in the army of those that work.
I am frightened of no man living, but I happened to hear the name of the manager there a-Captain Sternberg, an ex-captain of the German navy. He and I served together in the same ship and I am a deserter from the German service." I was astonished. "You!" I exclaimed; "surely you are not a German?"
The renegade is about to slay a warrior who faces him, but recognising young Ulric, his ex-captain, he drops the uplifted hammer, and bids him fly, and think of Carpezan. He is softened at seeing his young friend, and thinking of former times when they fought and conquered together in the cause of Protestantism. Ulric bids him to return, but of course that is now out of the question. They fight.
The ex-captain was somewhat corpulent. He was short, and had a plump, good-natured face which suggested that he was not a bigoted teetotaler; he had a suit of clothes on that did not convey the idea of a West-end tailor; his dialect was broad Yorkshire, and his conversational capacity interminable.
"Very well," concluded Kurzbold, "as I am graciously permitted to speak in the august presence of our ex-Captain, I desire to say that whatever my share happens to be, I bestow it gladly, nay, exultantly, upon the poor of Frankfort." With that Kurzbold sat down, and there was first a roar of laughter, followed by a clapping of hands. Gensbein rose, and said briefly: "I do as Kurzbold does."
A notable article on "Physical Training" by Joseph H. Sears, an Ex-Captain of the Harvard Football Team, may be found in Roosevelt's "In Sickness and in Health." Price lists and catalogues of all kinds of gymnastic apparatus are easily obtained on application to firms handling such goods. Various Systems of Physical Exercises.
"I'd like to try it again, sir," gasped John. "You young humbug," laughed Penhallow. "Go and console your distracted aunt. I am off to the mills." The ex-captain was merciless enough, and day after day John was so stiff that, as he confessed to Leila, a jointed doll was a trifle to his condition. She laughed, "I went through it once, but one day it came." "What came, Leila?"
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