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"What, you here already, Cornelius?" asked the legislator. "I haven't been away," was the answer. "Well, you've got the hang-on, and that's what an officer-seeker needs. Well, I'll attend to your matter among the very first. I'll visit the President in a day or two." The listener's heart throbbed hard. After all his waiting, triumph was his at last. He went home walking on air, and Col.
I had a nice chat with Lady Georgina. 20 November. It has been rather a "hang-on" ever since I wrote last, nothing settled and nothing to do. No one ever seems at their best in Petrograd. It is a cross place and a common place. I never understood Tolstoi till I came here. On all sides one sees the same insane love of money and love of food. A restaurant here disgusts me as nothing else ever did.
"Is he very bad?" asked Lloyd. "Well, he's not the hang-on sort that Mr. Ferriss was; nothing undecided about Captain Ward Bennett; when he's sick, he's sick; rushes right at it like a blind bull. He's as bad now as Mr. Ferriss was in his third week." "Do you think he will recognise me?" The doctor shook his head. "No; delirious most of the time of course regulation thing.
Twice he plunged headlong after them, bracing himself against the backsuck, then with the help of his steel-like grip all four were dragged clear of the souse. Ever after it was "Uncle Isaac" or "that old hang-on," but always with a lifting of the chin in pride.
The lorries moved away ... the Norman Ten Hundred went out again to hang-on or fall, to uphold the traditions dearly bought by those who had gone over the Divide a few months before. If they could DO IT then, they could do it NOW. The Ten Hundred slept in their lorries at Berquin before moving into billets. No sign of enemy activity presented itself apart from the incessant rumble of distant guns.
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