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"Mai dearr sirr, nothing on airth is continuous: iverything has paroxysms and remissions from a toothache t' a cancer." He repeated his query in various forms, till at last a little girl squeaked out, "If you -please, sir, the throes do come about every ten minutes, for I was a looking at the clock; I carries father his dinner at twelve."
The battalion moved off. So much for the war-talk of veterans. Now let us listen to the novices. "Bogle," said Angus M'Lachlan to his henchman, "I think we shall have to lighten this Wolseley valise of mine. With one thing and another it weighs far more than thirty-five pounds." "That's a fact, sirr," agreed Mr. Bogle. "It carries ower mony books in the heid of it."
"I didna like to express my warm approbation of you before the lads, for fear of making them jealous." "They be No!" "I ken what ye wad say, sirr, an it wad hae been a vara just an' sprightly observation. Aweel, between oursels, I look upon ye as a young gentleman of amazing talent and moedesty. Man, ye dinna do yoursel justice; ye should be in th' Academy, at the hede o' 't." "Mr.
Preston got his elbow smashed, and Burke had a bullet through his cap and another in the region of the waistband. Then they tumbled into the trench like rabbits. Carfrae and I crawled after them." At this moment the doorway of the dugout is darkened by a massive figure, and Major Kemp's colour-sergeant announces "There's a parrty of Gairmans gotten oot o' their trenches, sirr. Will we open fire?"
And when the girl came in, and stood, pretty in her print frock, her fluffy over-fine dark hair escaping from under her cap, he gazed at her in silence. "Yes, sirr?" "Want to look at you, that's all." "Oh I an' I'm not tidy, sirr." "Never mind. Had your valentine?" "No, sirr; who would send me one, then?" "Haven't you a young man?" "Well, I might. But he's over in my country.
After our position fix, I reentered the lounge, and when our bearings were reported on the chart, I saw that we were off the island of Ceylon, that pearl dangling from the lower lobe of the Indian peninsula. I went looking in the library for a book about this island, one of the most fertile in the world. Sure enough, I found a volume entitled Ceylon and the Singhalese by H. C. Sirr, Esq.
The admirable M'Snape produced from his pocket a Mills grenade, and handed it to his superior. "Just the one, sirr," he said.
Sampson kneaded the man like dough by way of comment. "It is really very extraordinary," said Osmond. "Mai dearr sirr, nothing's extraornary t' a man that knows the reason of iverything." He then inquired if any one in the room had noticed at what intervals of time the pains came on. "I am sorry to say it is continuous," said Osmond.
"The colonel has warned officers about their kits, and it would never do to have mine turned back from the waggon at the last minute." Mr. Bogle pricked up his ears. "The waggon? Are we for off again, sirr?" he inquired. "Indeed I could not say," replied the cautious Angus; "but it is well to be ready."
"Well, but," said Edward, "do you mean to say that in the present day " "Mai dearr sirr. Mankind niver changes. Whativer the muscles of man can do in the light, the mind and conscience of man will consent to do in the dark." Julia said never a word. Mrs. Dodd, too, was for action not for talk. She bade them all a hasty adieu, and went on her good work.
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