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There were other soldiers about, mostly British: a couple of sergeants of the Guards, an assistant of the provost-marshal, some of the new Land Transport Corps, and one or two Sardinians, in their picturesque green tunics and cocked hats with great plumes of black feathers. The demand for drink was incessant and kept the attendants busy.
At the next Sergeants' Dance at the Institute I did not like Burker's manner to my wife at all. It was well, amorous, and tinged with a shade of proprietorship. I distinctly heard him call her "Dolly," and equally distinctly saw an expressively affectionate look in her eyes as he hugged her in the waltzes whereof they indulged in no less than five. My position was awkward and unpleasant.
Yes, and if you will but believe me, general, when I and my daughters were getting breakfast for him and his people, if he didn't come here himself with his sergeants, and had this place swept out all so sweet and clean for them poor sick people; and, with his own dear hands too, helped that gentleman there to dress and doctor the poor things, that he did.
This sally was not fitted to arrest the explosion of general merriment. It struck all as so whimsical, and so ridiculous, that the wild laughter even attacked the sergeants of the Parloi-aux-Bourgeois, a sort of pikemen, whose stupidity was part of their uniform. Quasimodo alone preserved his seriousness, for the good reason that he understood nothing of what was going on around him.
The vacancies have been filled up, and the two battalions are both at their full strength. "Two of the captains, Fernandez and Panza, were killed. I have appointed two of the sergeants temporarily, pending your confirmation, on your return." "It is well that it is no worse. They were both good men, and will be a loss to us. Whom have you appointed in their places?"
'And so, said the Colonel,'there has been no malice prepense, as lawyers, I think, term it, in this rash step of yours; and you have been trepanned into the service of this Italian knight-errant by a few civil speeches from him and one or two of his Highland recruiting sergeants? It is sadly foolish, to be sure, but not nearly so bad as I was led to expect.
The sergeants do the swearing, The corporals "carry on"; The private cusses openly, And hopes he'll soon be gone. One evening the colonel sent me from our dug-out near the Salt Lake to "A" Beach to make a report on the water supply which was pumped ashore from the tank-boats. I trudged along the sandy shore.
We have shown the French artillerists that we can serve our guns quicker and more accurately; now let us see if we cannot prove ourselves the swifter and steadier at this work. Let the sergeants see to it that each man in his file has a piece of paper in his hat, and that each has removed the flint from his gun. I want you to carry the redoubt without a shot, by the bayonet alone."
Perhaps this Filipino, a wicked fellow of long training, knew how to go about his work. "Going to buy anything, Noll?" asked Hal at last, after the two young sergeants had made the round of the bewildering, attractive store. "I would, if I could find anything worth while that didn't take a sergeant's whole year's pay," sighed Terry. "Things are fearfully dear here, aren't they?" murmured Overton.
In a twinkling he thrust a pistol into my face, and cried triumphantly, 'You are my prisoner! while one of the sergeants raised a lanthorn and threw its light into my eyes. 'What folly is this? I said savagely. The Lieutenant's jaw fell, and he stood for a moment paralysed with astonishment. Less than an hour before he had left me at the Chateau.
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