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This then is the other half, without which she would be where we are: France legislates to keep her wealth in her own country and her loss on that canal is only one plum out of her heeping bushel. The foreign sapper and miner does no work on French soil.
The base materialist with the foot rule will inform you of the mundane details." The Sapper alluded to scowled heavily at the unconscious Bendigo. Somewhat uncertain as to what a base materialist might be, he felt dimly that it was a term to be resented. "I was sent up 'ere, sir, with 'im to help 'im make a model of that there stump," he remarked morosely.
After eating a very slight sapper she made herself a cigarette and sat and smoked until I had finished my pipe. Then she came a little nearer to me, and I felt ashamed of myself for not having asked her if her neck gave her much pain, for I now noticed that the neck and front of her dress were blood-stained.
He turned to the young Sapper. "Can we countermine?" The young Engineer took the place of Major Dewes. "We can try, but we are late," said he. "It must be a sortie then," said Luffe. "Yes," exclaimed Lynes eagerly. "Let me go, Sir Charles!" Luffe smiled at his enthusiasm. "How many men will you require?" he asked. "Sixty?" "A hundred," replied Dewes promptly.
'Trenches, spluttered Sapper Duffy, . . . us? How is it our turn again? 'Becos, my son, said the Sergeant, 'there's nobody else about 'ere to take a turn. Come on! Roll out! Show a leg! It was then that Sapper Duffy was finally converted, and renounced for ever and ever his anti-conscription principles.
Who was the woman he twirled with? She was unfeatured, undistinguished, one of the sex, or all the sex: the sex to be shunned as our deadly sapper of gain, unless we find the chosen one to super-terrestrialize it and us, and trebly outdo our gift of our whole self for her.
We built this fortress ourselves, except that our teacher of handicrafts, the sapper Sabum, sometimes gave us a hint.
Her vanity led her to believe that she was strong; and the approaches of the sapper were conducted with too much caution, with a progress too stealthy and insensible, to startle the ear or attract the eye of the unobservant, yet keen-eyed guardian of her citadel.
"They're very active this morning, sir," said the Sapper, stepping forward. "Lot of rum jars and things coming over." "Are you the Sapper officer? Good morning. I wish you'd get this accursed instrument to work." "There may be a line broken," he remarked tactfully. "Well I shall have to go back; I can't hear a word. The thing does nothin' but squeak. Now it's purring like a cat. I hate cats.
He imitated the tones of their voice and twisted and contorted his face and body to resemble the originals. Nothing was sacred from that mimic any more than from a sapper. He showed us Osman Digna's little ways, and gave ghastly imitations of trials, mutilations and executions by hanging in the Mahdist camps.
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