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Could one possibly make out amid all that confusion what did or did not happen? "By the way, your excellency, I should inform you," he continued remembering Dolokhov's conversation with Kutuzov and his last interview with the gentleman-ranker "that Private Dolokhov, who was reduced to the ranks, took a French officer prisoner in my presence and particularly distinguished himself."
There had not been a man missing in the whole month of February. But one day Lawrence, the gentleman-ranker, was reported missing. The Colonel had no illusions concerning broken men and said so to Mrs. Fortescue. "The fellow has deserted that's the way most of the broken men end. He was in the aviation field yesterday and his going away was not premeditated, as he did not ask for leave.
Broussard had too many motors, too many horses, too many dogs, too many clothes, too many fighting chickens, and, above all, was too intimate with a certain soldier, a gentleman-ranker who was disapproved, both of officer and man. A gentleman-ranker is a man serving in the rank who might be an officer. This one, Lawrence by name, was a bad lot altogether.
Broussard, owing to a slight defect of vision, was not in the aviation corps, but, like Sergeant McGillicuddy, he would fly whenever he had an invitation from Lawrence, the gentleman-ranker with whom Broussard was seen too often to please Colonel Fortescue.
Learoyd, bowed on his bedstead, groaned, and the gentleman-ranker sighed in his sleep. Ortheris took Mulvaney's tendered pouch and we three smoked gravely for a space while the dust-devils danced on the glacis and scoured the red-hot plain. 'Pop? said Ortheris, wiping his forehead.
Anita, although knowing nothing of the gentleman-ranker and his wife and the handsome boy except that, obviously, they were unlike their neighbors and fellows in the married men's quarters, yet always observed them with curiosity. Their unlikeness to their station in life was of itself a mystery, and consequently of interest. Mrs.
Take me into any Officers' Mess you like say 'There is a promoted gentleman-ranker here, and I'll lay a thousand to one I spot him. Don't care if he's the son of a Dook nor yet if he's Royal, you can spot him alright...." Pleasant hearing for the "landed proprietor," whom a beautiful, wealthy and high-bred girl proposed to marry!
Learoyd, bowed on his bedstead, groaned, and the gentleman-ranker sighed in his sleep. Ortheris took Mulvaney's tendered pouch, and we three smoked gravely for a space while the dust-devils danced on the glacis and scoured the red-hot plain. "Pop?" said Ortheris, wiping his forehead.
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