soldier-englishman

Updated: July 10, 2025

There was a very fair scuffle all round the booking-office, and Golightly received a nasty cut over his eye through falling against a table. But the constables were too much for him, and they and the Station-Master handcuffed him securely. As soon as the mail-bag was slipped, he began expressing his opinions, and the head-constable said: "Without doubt this is the soldier-Englishman we required.

Rudyard Kipling - Plain Tales from the Hills