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Looking into his firm, confident eyes, Mr. Prohack realised, perhaps for the first time, that the fruit of his loins was no common boy. The mere fact that as an out-of-work ex-officer, precariously making a bit in motor-bicycle deals, he had dared to go to Melchizidek's firm for clothes, and that he was now daring to affront Melchizidek, this sole fact separated him from the ruck of sons.
My second piece of news will interest you very much, I am sure. You were taken to the establishment of the Chinaman, Shen-Yan, by a certain ex-officer of New York Police Burke..." "Good God!" cried Smith, looking up with a start; "I thought they had him!" "So did I," replied Weymouth grimly; "but they haven't!
Louis was chief maitre d'hotel at one of the best restaurants in London. I was an ex-officer in a cavalry regiment, brother of the Earl of Welmington, with a moderate income, and a more than moderate idea of how to spend it. Louis was servant and I was master. It had pleased me to make a companion of him for a short time, and his manner had been a perfect acknowledgment of our relative positions.
My second piece of news will interest you very much, I am sure. You were taken to the establishment of the Chinaman, Shen-Yan, by a certain ex-officer of New York Police Burke...." "Good God!" cried Smith, looking up with a start; "I thought they had him!" "So did I," replied Weymouth grimly; "but they haven't!
We have both heard him say that he was regularly commissioned as a commander in the Confederate navy, and that his ship is armed with all proper authority to capture, burn, and destroy the mercantile marine of the United States." "But Captain Rombold is an ex-officer of the Royal navy, and you may depend upon it he will fight.
He was gone: that was all, and his small place in the household was more than filled by a German couple, an ex-officer with an adoring wife, both of whom spent half their days in bed, testing on a roulette watch various exciting systems which, now they had come from afar off, they lacked courage to play at the Casino.
Captain Hartstein, who was an ex-officer of our navy, and an old friend of Fox's, was sent with him, to be within ear-shot, and see that he did no harm to the Confederacy.
Every night, as dusk came down, expectant mothers paced gently through the shadows, leaning on the arms of ex-officer husbands. It wasn't only in the trees that nests were being built. The Square's name might well have been changed to Honeymoon Square.
This man had taken a fancy to Cesarini; and, in some hours Cesarini had shunned him less than others, for they could alike rail against all living things. The lunatic approached Cesarini with an air of dignity and condescension. "It is a cold night, sir, and there will be no moon. Has it never occurred to you that the winter is the season for escape?" Cesarini started; the ex-officer continued,
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