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Updated: June 24, 2025
I shall tell Lanny why you took charge of the gun and how you handled it, and I know he will want you to keep it." "And the uniform the uniform again! Yes, the uniform if only a gunner private's uniform!" he exclaimed in short, pulsating breaths of ecstasy. "Yes, count on that, too! And good-by!" "Good-by! I " But she had already turned away. "I've changed my mind! Exit gardener! Enter gunner!
"How do you know I've not been a sergeant?" "Then you've been degraded. I'm main sorry for that." "Look here, you hush up! Damn it! there's girls enough have fancied this coat, though it ain't but a private's; and that's enough for you, I take it." "It's handsome." "There, that'll do. I do believe you're spiteful because I didn't offer to kiss you when I came in.
Perhaps you may come back in a different humour, Polly. Here's your agent's letter. Are you a-going to take your commission, and fight in a gentleman's uniform for your Queen and country, or are you going out to advertise your father's shame by wearing a private's coat? 'I shall go as I am, said Polson. 'Very well, said John Jervase again.
And let me advise you, Mr. Wiggins, the next time you go out masqueradin' to make up clean through. That private's cap and pantaloons burned around the back, and them Government cow-hides give you dead away, if your mug didn't. If they wuz givin' commissions away you wouldn't be a brevet Corporal.
I remarked, "They seem to have been in luck's way about their clothes, at any rate;" and so they did, for whilst ours were as ragged as sheep and as black as rooks, theirs were as red and new as if they had never been on, and their shoes were to match, whilst ours were completely worn out by our continual marches, the captain's being quite as bad as any private's.
I will not volunteer as a soldier, because rightfully or wrongfully I feel unwilling to take a mere private's place, and, having for many years lived in California and Louisiana, the men are not well enough acquainted with me to elect me to my appropriate place.
Thaine lifted Todd Stewart to his feet, and as they started up the slushy way to the hospital tent, he said: "Yonder is Lieutenant Alford now." A young man with a face as genial as his manner was dignified responded pleasantly to the private's salute, and the rainfall seemed less dreary and all the camp more cheerful for this lieutenant's presence.
I heard the sigh and the words come from one of these soldiers not an officer but a fine gentleman in his private's uniform as he looked round the room and let his brown eyes linger on the candle-lights and the twinkling glasses and snow-white table-cloths.
In order to make clear what happened when I crossed the German border for the last time, I should explain that I now had with me several trophies which I had obtained with great difficulty and was correspondingly anxious to bring home. Among them was a German private's helmet and an original Iron Cross of the second degree.
I say, though, you are a deal better. Fortni't ago you'd have shrunk like if I'd touched you even as tender as that." "What's that pomatum?" "Pomatum! As if I'd use pomatum to a gent's 'air or a private's either. No, that's a cream made from a prescription I gave a 'airdresser half a soverin' for. Violets is nothing to it in the way o' smell.
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