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Why did you say anything about it?" Aglaya looked blackly at him. "Do you know what, I had better not come at all tomorrow! I'll plead sick-list and stay away," said the prince, with decision. Aglaya stamped her foot, and grew quite pale with anger. "Oh, my goodness! Just listen to that! 'Better not come, when the party is on purpose for him! Good Lord!
By stretching awnings over the whole ship we contrived that they should all be constantly in the shade, and so long as they were not directly exposed to the sun's rays, there was no fear of anything going wrong. How well they came through it appears best from the fact that not one of them was on the sick-list on account of the heat.
The complexion of the men became sallow, and every day numbers of them were put on the sick-list by the surgeons. The 47th regiment, commanded by Col. On that day General Johnston attacked the left wing of the Federal army, which had been thrown across to the southern side of the Chickahominy.
Wheeler, who, as previously stated, returned from the sick-list to duty during the afternoon. His cheerfulness and aggressiveness made itself felt on this part of the battle-field, and the information he furnished to me at various stages of the battle proved to be most useful.
But he spoke at once, and thereby set her at her ease. "That's much better," he said approvingly, as if he had only parted from her the day before. "I was afraid you were going on the sick-list, but I see you have thought better of it. Very wise of you." She met his smile with a feeling of glad relief. "How is Ronnie?" she said. He laughed a little at the hasty question.
It seems very strange, but it is really true, that off Cape Horn some "sogers" of sailors will stand cupping, and bleeding, and blistering, before they will budge. On the other hand, there are cases where a man actually sick and in need of medicine will refuse to go on the sick-list, because in that case his allowance of grog must be stopped.
It was near midnight when the end came. Utterly weary and broken, he had sunk into Lance's chair, leaning forward, his face hidden, his frame shaken all through with hard dry sobs that would not be stilled. Through the fog of his misery, he felt the Colonel's hand on his shoulder; heard the familiar voice, deep and kindly: "My dear Roy, get to bed. We can't have you on the sick-list.
We let the water into the brig, and pumped it out, but nothing would take away the smell, which was so overpowering, that before I could get to Malta I had forty men on the sick-list. When I arrived there, I turned the mate out of the service for his carelessness.
When I was a clerk myself, I was on the sick-list once for three months, and nobody paid me. After the first month I was bounced, and I didn't expect anything else. I didn't expect any philanthropical business, and I don't give it. That's fair, isn't it? I don't give quarter, and I don't expect any. If I'm squeezed, I pay.
If Charteris did well what he was permitted to do, he could have done no more if he had lived a hundred years." The rapt gaze faltered, and the soldier-mystic became the keen administrator once more. "How much longer are you to be on the sick-list, Gerrard? I am going to send you to Darwan." "I shall not be able to use this arm for some time, sir.
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