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"They want," said the great Duke, speaking of the Portuguese in 1809, "the habits and the spirit of soldiers, the habits of command on one side, and of obedience on the other mutual confidence between officers and men." In order that during the respite now offered he might instil these habits into his brigade, Jackson neither took furlough himself nor granted it to others.
He made up his mind, therefore, that, as soon as he was installed at Vivey, he would change his leave of absence to an unlimited furlough of freedom.
"My appointment at Halfa I might shorten its term. I might perhaps avoid it altogether. I have still half my furlough." She did not answer nor did she change her attitude. She remained very still, and Durrance was alarmed, and all his hopes sank. For a stillness of attitude he knew to be with her as definite an expression of distress as a cry of pain with another woman.
I had seen him several times, at the colonel's headquarters, and he always seemed mad about something, and I had thought he was about the crossest looking man I ever saw, but if there was any truth in what the horse doctor had told me, he was easily reached if a man went at him right, and I resolved that if pure, unadulterated cheek and monumental gall would accomplish anything, I would have a furlough before night, for a homesicker man never lived than I was.
Perhaps we have regarded the scene as a mere pastoral episode in a happy leave from the battle front, instead of realizing that it is a snapshot illustrating a well organized plan of securing labor. The soldiers are given a furlough and are sent where the agricultural need is pressing.
When it was over, a self-confidence in my capacity was established that had not existed hitherto, and at each succeeding examination I gained a little in order of merit till my furlough summer came round that is, when I was half through the four-year course.
It seems you have an application pending for a furlough." "Yes, sir." "It is my pleasure to inform you that it has been granted sixty days, with permission to proceed east. There has been considerable delay evidently in locating you."
Could she give up this new love induce him to renounce her by saying she did not like him could no more speak to him, and beg him, for her good, to end his furlough in Bath, and see her and Weather- bury no more?
Much excited, like everyone else, Godfrey telegraphed to the India Office, asking leave to come home direct overland, which he could not do without permission since he was in command of a number of soldiers who were returning to England on furlough. No answer came to his wire before his ship sailed, and therefore he was obliged to proceed by long sea.
As soon as I could persuade him I was no spook or mermaid, he was almost as pleased as I was, especially when he found I was the 'eretico. He was a Swiss, it seemed, of King Ferdinand's regiments, going home on furlough, and a Protestant, which was why he was left on board.
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