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From this point of view the witness, a dour, grey figure of a man, refused to be driven by cross-examination. His many professional years within the sordid atmosphere of gaol walls had taught him that most criminals were malingerers by instinct, and that pretended insanity was the commonest form of their imposition to evade the consequence of their misdeeds.
The unfortunate malingerers allowed themselves to be crushed rather than stir; they perished in silence, smiling at their extinguished fires, without a thought of France. It was not until ten o'clock that night that Marechal Victor reached the bank of the river.
Many malingerers suddenly discovered acute symptoms of heart disease and brought easily-obtained doctor's certificates, assuring me that tragic consequences would attend their exposure in the field. Ladies came to me pleading exemption for their husbands, sisters for brothers, mothers for sons, all offering plausible reasons why their loved ones should be exempted from commando duty.
The dear little gentlemen-cadets had to pace up and down when on guard, with seven-pound muskets across their shoulders, just like anybody else, though the hearts of their distinguished mammas almost broke at the sight, when they drove over in their fine coaches to see their darlings. Malingerers, again, had a fearful time of it with him.
Amusing, these sudden, purposeful efforts should one happen to think of them in that way. But no one did. "No you don't, you malingerers!" said the doctor sharply. "I've been at this business long enough to know a real cough." Now the judge's son and a dozen others were separated from the rest of their companions and started over a hill. From the top they had a broad view.
You've taken a minute longer than the regular time." There was a knock at the door, and, when Dalton opened it a few inches, a black head announced through the crack that breakfast was ready. "See what a disgrace you're bringing upon us," said Dalton. "Delaying everything. Mrs. Lanham will say that we're two impostors, that such malingerers cannot possibly belong to the Army of Northern Virginia."
As he walked he kept a sullen eye out for his stolen horse, never expecting to see him, and it was with a savage mixture of surprise and satisfaction that he beheld him, bestridden by two dirty malingerers from a New York infantry regiment who rode on the snaffle with difficulty and objurgations and reproached each other for their mutual discomfort.
West began another story, but was checked by the appearance of a hospital steward: "Davis, Ward A, No. 3, is very bad, sir." "Going?" "Yes, sir." The doctor bent above the table, took a hasty spoonful of pudding, nodded to the company, and went out. "Speaking of malingerers," began Hammond, "I saw the Colonel of the forty Thieves put down in a most amusing manner the day before Bull Run.
A number were legitimately there, wounded, ill, exhausted, useless on the field of battle; others were malingerers, and some were cowards cowards for all time, or cowards for this time only. A minority was voluble. "You all think yo' going to a Sunday-school picnic, don't you? Well, you ain't. Just you all wait until you get to the top of the hill! What are you going to see?
It is true that between self-controlled people and ungovernable people there is a narrow margin of moral malingerers who can be made to behave themselves by the fear of consequences; but it is not worth while maintaining an abominable system of malicious, deliberate, costly and degrading ill-treatment of criminals for the sake of these marginal cases.
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