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The proposals all went over to the master at the Bath, who knowing no more of the land than the child unborn, only having once been out a grousing on it before he went to England; and the value of lands, as the agent informed him, falling every year in Ireland, his honour wrote over in all haste a bit of a letter, saying he left it all to the agent, and that he must let it as well as he could to the best bidder, to be sure, and send him over 200l., by return of post: with this the agent gave me a hint, and I spoke a good word for my son, and gave out in the country that nobody need bid against us.
Where he got the stuff I can't imagine, for the most grousing Tommy, with his leave stopped, never put together such balderdash. Worst of all he asked me to agree with him. It took all my sense of discipline. 'I don't know much about the subject, I said, 'but out in South Africa I did hear that the British leading was the weak point. I expect there's a good deal in what you say.
When I come to think of it, the strangest thing about the whole business was that there were no genuine complaints. The usual "grousing," of course, without which no soldier could remain healthy, but I never heard a word that could have been taken to indicate that any one was really unhappy. While we were loading, our cooks had managed to make up a good lot of hot tea and that helped some.
It's kind of restful to know that everybody's asleep, and not dead. If they wasn't snoring, I'd certainly think they was dead." The young man smiled. "I'll say this much for you farmers, you're a good-natured bunch. I ought to be ashamed of myself for grousing. I suppose it's because I've been sick.
"To cap all, the ice went out two weeks ahead, and we had to change to wheels, and sink to the hubs in the land trails. Now, by gad, before the ice on the shore is melted, it'll be time for the lake to freeze over again!" "No use grousing about it," muttered Shand. Big Jack clamped his teeth on his pipe and fell silent.
"Oh, you're not grousing and you're making the best of it. You're perfectly splendid. But you're philosophizing such a lot over it. The only thing before us is to do in Germany, Prussian militarism, and so on, and then there'll be peace, and we'll all be happy again." "Have you met many men who say that?" he asked. "Heaps. Oliver was only talking about it the other day." "Oliver?"
Do you know how a male newt proposes, Bertie? He just stands in front of the female newt vibrating his tail and bending his body in a semi-circle. I could do that on my head. No, you wouldn't find me grousing if I were a male newt." "But if you were a male newt, Madeline Bassett wouldn't look at you. Not with the eye of love, I mean." "She would, if she were a female newt."
"And here I've been grousing away about my own affairs all the time! Why didn't you stop me?" "You know I'm interested in your affairs." "And I'm interested in yours. What's bothering you, Gillian? Tell me." "Magda," said Gillian simply. She was rather surprised to observe that Dan's face did not, as usual, darken at the mere mention of Magda's name. "I saw her the other day," he said quickly.
"No good grousing, I suppose, but after Statesminster and a glimpse of old Cardinal's way of doing things, one gets a kind of toothache in the mind at the sight of everything being done twice as slowly and half as well as it need be." He went off at a tangent to describe the men in his platoon.
And for this and other causes, the Unknown Warrior was extraordinarily bored at having to die, except that he came not to care so much so long as he was sure he was only to be asked to die. As for his valour Well, said he, it's no use grousing, and if it's a question of bayonets, it had better be mine in the other chap's stomach. Besides we English-speaking peoples don't shout about our valour.
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