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Then he must have stumbled over something, for he waved his arms and fell face downward. And there he remained lying on the snow. "Pick up the gun, you sour-faced gray-coat, or I'll pick it up," said Tsiganok sternly to the other soldier. "You don't know your business!" The little lanterns began to move about busily again. Now it was the turn of Werner and Yanson.
Planks had been laid across the German trenches where they intersected the road and as they passed over them Tom looked down upon many a gruesome sight which evidenced the surprise by the Americans and their undoubted victory. Not a live German was to be seen, nor a dead American either, but here and there a fallen gray-coat lay sprawled in the crooked topsy-turvy ditch.
Storri whirred the telegraph call that was fixed in the hall; presently a gray-coat lad appeared and bore away the message. Then Storri beamed affably upon the San Reve, who took his hand and put it to her grateful lips. Storri beamed because he was in a right royal humor. The episode had been unpremeditated, and yet it dove-tailed to the advantage of his designs.
And what politics she might have played, whether the Russian gray-coat armies might have encroached into those historic hills on the strength of her intriguing, or whether she would have seized the first opportunity to avenge herself by playing Russia false, are matters known only to the gods of unaccomplished things.
'You did not come to grief with Harry! muttered the discomfited boy. 'No more did the lamb damage the eagle; but remember the fate of the jackdaw, Mr. Gray-coat! I deserve some ice for my exertions, so come into the hall and get some, and tell me if you have had better luck elsewhere. 'I have had no partner but Minna Ward, and she trips as if one was a dancing-master.
SERGEANT. That he reads in the stars we also hear, Where the future he sees distant or near But I know better the truth of the case A little gray man, at the dead of night, Through bolted doors to him will pace The sentinels oft have hailed the sight, And something great was sure to be nigh, When this little gray-coat had glided by.
In old times it was the fashion for good men and women to found schools for children where all the children had to wear a particular sort of dress, and some of these were called Blue-coat Schools, and some Green-coat, and some Gray-coat; but they are very different now, and the children don't wear the dress they used to.
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