malet-marsac

Updated: May 3, 2025

The bravest, coolest, keenest chap I ever met, the finest fighting-man, the truest comrade and friend, and from time to time something queer peeped out, and one was puzzled.... Madness in the family, I suppose.... Poor devil, poor, poor devil!" and Captain Malet-Marsac stamped about and swore, for his eyes tingled and his chin quivered.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

At the enemy in front; fixed sights; fire," and of a withering hail of bullets. Colonel Ross-Ellison had arrived in the nick of time. On the hill-top, at dawn, Colonel Ross-Ellison and Captain Malet-Marsac found all that was left of the picket and sentry-group, of the latter, three mangled corpses, the headless deserter, and a just-living man, horribly slashed.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life