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Tompkins privateer, and had received a considerable sum in prize-money, on returning home. They had used their money discreetly, having purchased an English prize-brig, at a low price, and fitted her out. On board the Tompkins, both had been foremost hands, and in prison they had messed in our bay, so that we had been hail-fellows-well-met; on Melville Island.
As a married man my father had the liberty to introduce his wife and children into the hospital at meal-times, to share his allowance with them; this my mother would not listen to, as regarded herself and my sister, but my father messed in what is called the married men's room, on my account, and instead of buying my own dinner, or applying to my mother for it, I now always took it with my father in the hospital.
It was seldom that Lawford turned upon his father in anger. "You know very well what I mean. Keep away from such women. Don't get messed up with actor people. I won't have it, I tell you! I am determined that at least one rich man's son shall not be the victim of the wiles of any of these stage women." The flush remained in Lawford's cheek.
At length they found Lieutenant Woodruff, who had just returned from escorting another party of friends to the cars, on their way back to town. He seemed glad to see them, though not enthusiastic in his demonstrations invited them to the tent in which he messed with some brother officers and they took that direction for a rest after their hot promenade.
"Yep," said pa, just cold like, hard and cold as if there warn't a thing to it, and he was half mad at me for askin' such a question; then he went on: "Some day you'll understand but life is just a trouble and tangle. I've been messed up all my life; always getting ready to do something, never really getting anything done.
"Oh, massa, I could not leave him at home; and since you was good enough to board him wid us, he has messed wid us, ay and slept wid us; and when we started last, although he showed some dislike at going on board, I had only to say, Sneezer, we go look for you master and he make such a bound, dat he capsize my old woman dere, heel, over head; oh dear, what display, Nancy, you was exhibit!"
"Beginning the ev'ning after the command left?" he said. "Let me see. Why, I ain't crossed since the Colonel left." "Account for your time," repeated Oliver. "I messed at Blakely's that night. Afterward, me and Kippis had a little game." "What game?" "Cards." "Ah!" At once, Oliver sent for the sutler and the sergeant, and, waiting for them, tramped up and down.
For if, at the price of team work and playing for the side, we can only buy two or three more years of individualism at an age when the value of individualism is, at best, a doubtful blessing and, at worst, sheer blatant selfishness we shall indeed have messed things up. The cranks will be delighted; but the Empire will gnash its teeth.
The driving force that gives enthusiasm, that causes the hand on the plough to remain there until the job is done; the quality that abhors vacillation, that prevents a man taking a thing up one moment with red-hot eagerness and dropping it the next because he's tired of it. The men despise vacillation and chopping and changing. Being "messed about," they call it; only the word is not messed.
'Dolly, said Uncle Reginald, in a low voice, since he was permitted to look over the cards with her, 'I think I have found out part of your troubles. She looked at him in alarm. He put his finger on a card bearing the words, 'Goodwill to men. 'Umph, said she. 'I don't want everything of mine messed and spoilt. And as his eye fell on Fergus's cards, he felt there was reason in what she said.
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