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Under the influence of half-a-pint of mulled sack and a dram of brandy, the Admiralty clerk made such a spirited and successful speech in behalf of his department, that he was thought to have effectually silenced all grumblers against the management of his Majesty's navy. Compliments flowed in upon the orator from all directions.
"I say," answered Roland, "that these men are wearied with marching from Brentford to Windsor, that they have never known the bivouac and the battle." Both the grumblers turned their eyes to the veteran: the eyes rested first on the furrowed, care-worn lines in his eagle face; then they fell on the stiff outstretched cork limb; and then they turned away.
Russia was ready to go to war with her great neighbour, Austria. Diplomacy caution, if you will, made it imperative that other nations should sit tight and look to their own knitting, so to say. Not one could afford to be charged with befriending, even in a round-about way, either of the angry grumblers.
His Majesty gave orders that each regiment should present arms in defiling before the bust, which maneuver was not to the taste of some grumblers of the first regiment of the Guard, who, with moustaches scorched, and faces still blackened with the powder of Jena, would have better liked an order for lodgings with the bourgeois than all this parade, and took no pains to conceal their ill-humor.
Whether the growlers through the press and in general society, have done most to discourage and demoralize the army, or whether the grumblers in the army have wrought more effectually in discouraging enlistments and weakening the national cause, certain it is that the two evil influences have worked together, and that those who have displayed the contrary spirit are entitled to full credit from the whole loyal community.
You ought not to sneer at them, Vicomte, you whose troop covered itself with glory on the great days of Villiers and Champigny, you in whose praise even the grumblers of Paris became eloquent, and in whom a future Marshal of France is foretold." "But, alas! more than half of my poor troop was left on the battle-field, or is now wrestling for mangled remains of life in the ambulances.
"If you two grumblers don't stop your wrangling I'll choke you," Mr. Wright exclaimed, angrily. "I'm dumb," Mike said. "I'm silent as a corpse," cried the undertaker. "I'll spake no more this night," continued Mike. "See that you don't," answered our host. "Divil a bit, till I see a bushranger, and then I'll give him a taste of my spear."
In the course of time, however, we found the benefit of the change in every way; and the grumblers were silenced, because in spite of their wise shakings of the head, we filled the ship with oil as full as she could hold, much sooner than we had expected. Shoregoing people have but little notion of the ease with which the heart of a jack-tar is made to rejoice when he is out on a long voyage.
The gutta-percha ring-makers were quite numerous, and it was really astonishing to see the quality of the work turned out, being handsomely engraved and inlaid with silver. There were diversion and amusement for everybody and every class of men, except croakers and grumblers. They had no lot, parcel, or place, and such characters were not permitted to indulge in their evil forebodings.
The Bible does not answer the question directly; the divines in the Catechism say, 'To glorify God. Now I should like to know if a Westminster Catechism of the mosquitoes would'nt make as good an answer for them? "And here I am just in the act of annihilating with a logical stroke a multitude of grumblers and croakers.
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