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"The other is Captain Warkworth," said Mademoiselle Le Breton. "Do you know him?" "Warkworth Warkworth? Ah of course the man who distinguished himself in the Mahsud expedition. But why is he home again so soon?" Mademoiselle Le Breton smiled uncertainly. "I think he was invalided home," she said, with that manner, at once restrained and gracious, that Sir Wilfrid had already observed in her.
He was a lonely man, and he was feeling that he had done ill in not multiplying human emotions and relations. He reflected much upon the way in which he had neglected and despised his home affections, while he had formed no ties of his own. Now, too, his career seemed to him at an end, and he had nothing to look forward to but a maimed and invalided life of solitude and failure.
I shall find her in London, or at our lodgings at a Surrey farm we've taken to nurse my cousin Captain Philip O'Donnell invalided from Indian awful climate! on my return, when I hope to renew the acquaintance. She has beauty, she has brains. Resist her, and you 'll make a decent stand against Lucifer.
Cyr, but England, the home of my father, claimed me, and I was given a commission in the Artillery. That was two years ago. I volunteered for the Flying Corps, served in it at the outbreak of war, but was invalided after that confounded accident which spoilt my nerve. I fell two hundred feet into the sea, and passed thirty hours in the bitter water before a destroyer picked me up.
Thus was white New Zealand saved by Waikanae Christianity; and Waikanae Christianity was due, under GOD, to an invalided Oxford undergraduate, a Maori slave, and a little girl with her Gospel of St. Luke! But what of Rauparaha's son, Tamihana, the man without whom Hadfield would not have come to the district, nor Ripahau been converted, nor Tarore's gospel brought into use?
He had with him two negro men and a boy; these were secured to each other by hand-cuffs and a slight negro chain. For the last forty miles of my journey, I had a very pleasant companion in a gentleman from the state of Alabama. He was a most agreeable and intelligent young fellow, but invalided like myself through the poisonous miasma of the south.
I should recommend sherry in this case, on account of my friend Dombey being in an invalided condition; which might occasion rum to fly in point of fact to his head and throw him into a devil of a state. Of all this, Cousin Feenix delivered himself with an obviously nervous and discomposed air.
Every morning, they opened their newspapers with dread; but, as the weeks slipped by, they grew accustomed to the strain. Netty even forgot to look at the paper for days together. Her lover had been invalided home, and her chief interest in the war news was removed. For some weeks, Mrs. Swinton sincerely tried to live the life of a clergyman's wife.
The transport-ship in which he was, was loaded with wounded and invalided soldiers and sailors; all who could manage it in any way struggled on deck to catch the first view of the white coasts of England. One man lifted his arm, took off his cap, and feebly waved it aloft, crying, 'Old England for ever! in a faint shrill voice, and then burst into tears and sobbed aloud.
She was taking home a large cargo of spice, and articles of Indian manufacture, and a number of invalided soldiers. She was said to be a slow sailer, but as no other was likely to start for some months, the lads did not hesitate to avail themselves of the offer of the viceroy.
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