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Vincent, however, adhered to his wish, and it was arranged that as soon as he could get a nomination he should go to West Point, which is to the American army what Sandhurst and Woolwich are to England. Before that could be done, however, a great political agitation sprang up.
The French captain, formerly an instructor of artillery at Saint Cyr the West Point and the Sandhurst of France taken prisoner in the first autumn of the war, was the last to tell his story. At Torgau, Saxony, in the heart of Germany, be plunged into the Elbe in the darkness of night, stemmed the swift waters, and on landing, half-drowned, rose speedily and walked fast to avoid a fatal chill.
Bertram has shown himself a capable officer, but to my mind, he looked more like a soldier when he was at Sandhurst than he does now." A few minutes later Mrs. Chudleigh came out of the hotel with Sedgwick and stopped to speak to Mrs. Keith. "I came up by the last train and heard that you were here. Captain Sedgwick travelled with me, but he's going on to Toronto to-morrow.
It was Claire herself who banished his fear; she added hastily: "He really must get through Sandhurst properly." Of course she hadn't meant anything. In fact, if she really had liked him in any particular way she'd have been shot before she showed it. What she wanted was simply the advice of an older man in the service. It did not occur to Winn that Claire had been shot already without knowing it.
"You've only left Sandhurst a year, you ought to know all about this country," some one told him. A horrible rumour went about that another move was to be made at five o'clock the same evening, but this hour was subsequently altered to two o'clock the next morning. That night a five-franc postal order was given to every man as part of his pay.
Dam passed the night in the unnameable, ghastly hell of agony that he knew so well and that he wondered to survive. In the morning he received a note from Sir Gerald Seymour Stukeley. It was brief and clear: "Sandhurst is scarcely the place for a squealing coward, still less the Army. Nor is there room for one at Monksmead.
Sandhurst and Woolwich were still the only schools of soldiering recognized as giving the right "tone" to officers and gentlemen fit for high appointment. The cavalry, above all, held the power of supreme command in a war of machines and chemistry and national psychology.... I should hate to attack the Regular officer. His caste belonged to the best of our blood.
He left Valentine's letter unanswered, and refused all his aunt's pressing invitations to visit her again. Every year these were renewed with the same warmth and regularity, and it was one which now lay open beside his plate. "I suppose," ran the letter, "that you have heard how well Val passed out of Sandhurst.
"Blinds down?" echoed Miss Tebbs, hastily moving a newspaper in the hope of concealing her ill-doing. "Why are you in such a taking, Jane? I suppose the family are away." "Rubbish!" exclaimed her relative, sinking into a chair and dragging off her gloves. "Did you ever know them all away together? Of course, Mrs. Shafto goes gadding, and Douglas is at Sandhurst, but 'he' seldom stirs.
Never was the mobilisation of the Army and Navy managed with such speed; everything has gone like clockwork just clockwork. Of course you know that Dick and George are gone?" "I heard they were going," said Bob. "Yes, the young rascals were just mad to go. Naturally I expected it of Dick, who had just finished his training at Sandhurst; but George was just as keen. I am proud of them too.
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