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Updated: May 31, 2025
From a window here and there ruddy light streamed out to make a glowing oblong on the wall of a house opposite. "Goddam it, if ye don't believe me, you go ask the lootenant.... Look here, Toby, didn't our outfit see hotter work than any goddam engineers?" Toby had just stepped into the cafe, a tall man with a brown bulldog face and a scar on his left cheek.
The Donna Anna an' the other is camped in the convent doorin' the visit. No, they're not locked up nor gyarded, an' the Donna Anna comes an' goes in an' out of that convent as free as birds. The nuns, too, bow before her like her own peonies. "'Thar's a Lootenant Jack Spencer with us; he hails from further up the Cumberland than me some'ers near Nashville.
I know ye'll be good to her. Go with the lootenant, Kate darlin'; go. Shure I'll be happier then." And, trembling, he bent and kissed her wet cheeks. She threw her arms around his neck and clung to him in an agony of grief. Gently they strove to disengage her clasping arms, but she shrieked and struggled, and poor old Clancy broke down.
The aviator did not acknowledge the presence of a new listener, but when he had finished his story, walked away with his special swagger, his eyes fixed upon the distance. Fanning looked after him with disgust. "Do you believe him? I don't think he's any such heart-smasher. I like his nerve, calling you `Leftenant'! When he speaks to me he'll have to say Lootenant, or I'll spoil his beauty."
Ray laughed, the real old, joyous, ringing laugh again, as he gripped the faithful Irishman's hand. "Why, Hogan, old fellow. It's good to see you again; and so Dandy is here, too, is he?" "He is, sir, and it's he that'll be glad to have you on his back again. Oh, murther! Did the lootenant tell ye how he dumped the quarthermasther in the creek? He didn't? "Come, Billy. No time to lose. Mrs.
Colonel VanDeusen was still holding forth. "... So I told him. I said, 'Look, Lootenant, I said, 'don't rock the boat. You're a kid yet, you know, I said. 'You got equal rights with everybody else, I said, 'but if you rock the boat, you aren't gonna get along so well.
In the morning I get up bright an' early, and now I've got five thousand francs, a leave slip and a silver cigarette case, an' Lootenant J. B. Franklin's runnin' around sayin' how he was robbed by a Paris whore, or more likely keepin' damn quiet about it. That's my system."
He squints oop in the morn an' he speers a fine machine ower by his lines. "'Hoot! says he, 'yon wee feller is Scottish, A'm thinkin' go you, Fritz an' Hans an' Carl an' Heinrich, an' strafe the puir body. "'Nay, says his oonder lootenant. 'Nein, he says, 'ye daunt knaw what ye're askin', Herr Lootenant. "'What's wrong wi' ye? says the oberlootenant.
Our Lootenant was quick to seize the advantage. "Remove that transformation," he says. "Substitute one Roman candle. Gas-power is superior to manual propulsion." 'So we substituted. He arranged the pièce de resistarnce in the shape of large drums not saucers, mark you drums of coloured fire, with printed instructions, at proper distances round Persimmon.
'E was worth two men at the lee fore brace, an' three at the bunt of a sail; 'E'd a voice you could 'ear to the royal-yards in the teeth of a Cape 'Orn gale; But now 'e's a full-blown lootenant an' wears the twisted braid, Commandin' one of 'is Majesty's ships in the North Atlantic trade." "And what is the ship you're sailin' in?"
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