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Colin had never got over his father's death and Jerrold's going; and the last thing Jerrold had said to her before he went was; "You'll look after Col-Col, won't you? Don't let him go grousing about by himself." Jerrold had always expected her to look after Colin. At seventeen there was still something piteous and breakable about him, something that clung to you for help.
Old fool's always grousing about his rotten butter. You see, the fact is his butter is second or third quality stuff, and he reads the quotations in the paper for the primest, and kicks like a steer because he doesn't get the same, or a penny more. Always threatening to change his agents, and I wish to God he would; only, o' course, it doesn't do to tell 'em so.
Hawksley met these pleasantries halfway by grousing about being babied when there was nothing the matter with him but his head, his body, and his legs. Why didn't she look at him? What was the meaning of this persistent avoidance? She must have forgiven last night. She was too much of a thoroughbred to harbour ill feeling over that. Why didn't she look at him?
If the country had not been so lovely, and if all our experiences had not been new and out of the ordinary, there would have been more grousing. The second day on the train we were three days and three nights while passing through a city near Rouen, we had a glimpse of our first wounded French soldiers. It seemed as though war came home to a lot of us then for the first time.
"Perhaps you haven't been out long enough," he said. "Perhaps not," said Peter. "Not but what I do like him. He's a cheerful creature for all his grousing, and has sterling good stuff in him. But religiously I don't get on far. To tell you the truth, I'm awfully worried about it." The elder man nodded. "I guess I know, lad," he said. "See here.
And now Fernhurst, that has made me what I am, turns round and says, 'You are not fit to be a member of this great school! and I have to go. Oh, it's fair, isn't it?" He dropped exhausted into a chair. After a pause he went on: "Oh, well, it's no use grousing.
Therein lies the strange psychological mystery of the human mind.... The bomb failed to disturb; but a solitary shot from the sentry would have roused half the Battalion and sent them seeking half-consciously for their rifles. In the morning the news spread rapidly. In it they found occasion to accentuate a grousing born of the damp, uncheering vista around them.
It is 11 A.M. and we have not inspanned yet, though the battery and most of the brigade have started. I hear the whole column is to go to Warm Baths, sixteen miles farther on. We didn't start till 1.30, and halted about five. They are very pleasant chaps in the waggon, and we had great yarns about our experiences. They were in a thorough "grousing" mood.
After a little grousing they accepted the situation with the promise that if the show was rotten they certainly would let us know about it during the performance, Everything went lovely and it was a howling success, until Alkali Ike appeared on the scene with his revolver loaded with blank cartridges. Behind the bar on a shelf was a long line of bottles.
At first there was the usual grousing, as there seemed to be no reason why our company should be picked from the whole battalion. We soon learned that all hands were going over, and after that we felt better. We got our equipment on and started up to the second line. It was right here that I got my first dose of real honest-to-goodness modern war.
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