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Updated: May 1, 2025
Another official envelope I opened showed that Records were worrying whether a particular regimental sergeant-major was an acting or a temporary sergeant-major. The doctor and the signalling officer had gone forward to visit the batteries. Hostile shelling seemed to have died out. The mist was denser than ever a weather phenomenon that continued to puzzle.
Yet in spite of the loss of all their company officers, and of the fact that the left company of the battalion had been practically wiped out before the attack started, the greater portion of the battalion, led by their regimental sergeant-major, had reached their final objective.... "It was certainly," says the Brigade-Major quietly, "a very magnificent performance."
In the ring were a course of stiff jumps, lesser rings, the judges' office, a kind of watch-tower from which a strenuous fiend with a megaphone bawled things that no living soul could understand, and a number of most horsily-arrayed gentlemen, whose individual status varied from General and cavalry-colonel to rough rider, troop sergeant-major and stud groom.
And when you have gone I shall claim my rights, and this woman must obey my will." The sergeant-major read this defiance plainly in Heimert's face, and it had the effect of causing him to swear inwardly that he would seduce his comrade's wife. In the middle of May Ida bore a child, a fat, strong, healthy boy, weighing nine pounds. A splendid weight for a new-born baby!
"Lots of prisoners at Ypres, they say.... Have another whisky!" "We have one tent, haven't we?" I asked the sergeant-major when I got outside. "Yes, sir, but there's a cottage where Meddings has put the officers' cook-house. It looks all right, and there might be something there for the colonel."
Health, wealth, and long life to ye! said Sergeant-major Wills, taking her hand from Brett. 'I trust to meet ye again as the wife of a worthy man, said Trumpeter Buck. 'We'll drink your health throughout the campaign, and so good-bye t'ye, said Saddler-sergeant Jones, raising her hand to his lips.
The sergeant-major had barely time to throw together the few things that he intended to take with him. "Ida," he shouted through the door, "cut some bread and butter for my breakfast, and send it over to me in the orderly-room." Julie was as usual on the sofa, which was pushed close up to the table. Her sister was sitting doing some needlework.
The Con. Camp deserved the reputation which brought us those flights of distinguished visitors. I may set this down proudly without being suspected of conceit, for I had nothing to do with making the camp what it was. Success in a camp or a battalion depends first on three men the C.O., the adjutant, and the sergeant-major. We were singularly fortunate in all three.
How one envied the Rough-Riding Sergeant-Major his Staff Quarters without going so far as to envy the great Riding-Master his real separate and detached house! No privacy and a scarlet coat that encarnadined the world and made its wearer feel, as he so often thought, like a live coal glowing bright in Hell.
His little swimming eyes seemed to hypnotise the dealer when they were playing cards, and his big fat hands had nothing to do but to rake in the winnings. He had not the least scruple in taking money from the sergeant-major and Trumpeter-sergeant Henke, who were usually his adversaries why else did the fellows play with him? but he did not like winning from Frielinghausen.
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