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Updated: June 20, 2025
"One uniform spoiled is nothing," Dave answered with a smile. "Do not be concerned about me." Officer and men were suffering alike in that close atmosphere. By the time the watch was ended Dave Darrin was truly a pitchy, soiled, perspiration-soaked sight. Danny Grin, who reported to relieve his chum, looked rough and ready enough in a suit of dungarees that he had drawn.
Children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren kept the house swarming with life, and she could never have enough of it. The air, never too fresh in the Hawkes's house, was hot and charged with odours of cheap cologne, of powder, of human bodies, and of perspiration-soaked garments. The very gaslights screamed above the din as if they found it contagious.
At the toll-gate Dam released the perspiration-soaked wretch, who had suffered the torments of the damned, and who seemed to have met every man and woman whom he knew in the world as he paraded the promenade hanging lovingly to the arm of a common soldier! He thought of suicide and shuddered at the bare idea. "Well, I'm awf'ly sorry to have to run away and leave you now, dear Haddock.
In this case I know that time and distance lend enchantment, for of the hard work in the vineyards Father did very little the cultivating with a horse on days so hot that the horse was covered with lather and the dust rose in a cloud over one's perspiration-soaked clothes, the days following the spray cart with the lime and blue vitriol flying in one's face and running down one's legs, the tying in March and early April until one's fingers were raw and one's neck ached from reaching up of all these and other tasks he knew nothing.
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