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Updated: May 31, 2025
"If I was to see a soldier-man I must say, quick, 'God save the king, or 'haps he'd eat me. Is is you hungry, Mister Soldier-man?" "Truly I am that, sweetheart; but I don't eat little maids. Where is your grandfather?" "Ain't got any gran'favver; I said 'gran'dad." "Well, your gran'dad, then; can you take me to him?" "I don't know. 'Haps you'd eat him." "No fear of that, my dear.
"You'd just as well keep your questions for another day you'll send nothing out of here!" said Major King, sharply. Neel looked across his nose at King with triumphant leer. "I've sent out something, Mr. Soldier-man," said he; "it was on the wire by midnight last night, rushed to Meander by courier, and it's all over the country this morning.
The soldier therefore soon becomes an altogether different person and realises that he is no longer an animal-man living wild in the forest, but a soldier-man and a friend of the great Bulamatadi. who governs the country. What we may call the caste feeling has indeed contributed greatly to civilising the country.
Do you know what it is to be a brave soldier-man? Well, to be that, one must be kind and sweet and unselfish and do right. And doing right is doing mostly what you don't want to do. To wash a lot that is right; to keep your fingers out of the pie that is right; to keep your hands from spilling mucilage on the cat's back that is right.
"Certainly, Miss Carstow," he continued gravely. "Time has elapsed since the days of your pinafores and braids, when I was honored with the sobriquet of 'Soldier-man' and you were the 'Little Empress." His voice was one that would have lent itself to eloquence. Now its even modulation carried a sort of cold charm. "You do not like me," he repeated. "I don't know," she answered simply.
But for a poor soldier-man like myself, what has smelt the regulation powder all 'is life and hasn't got nothing to love and no gal waiting for him at home well, it isn't good enough. That's what I say, sir, with respects." He added the last two words by way of apology for having banged a very solid fist on the table. Meredith smiled. "So you've had enough of it?" he said.
Every soldier-man and most civilians know that it is sometimes the duty of a red-coat to go and get killed without pausing to ask whether it be expedient or not. One aide-de-camp may be sent on a mad attempt to get through the enemy's lines, while his colleague rides quietly to the rear with a despatch inside his tunic, the delivery of which to the commander-in-chief will ensure promotion.
Little did I suppose that his ramrod body and frozen face would, in the end, step in between me and all my dearest wishes; that upon this precise, regular, icy soldier-man my fortunes should so nearly shipwreck! I never liked, but yet I trusted him; and though it may seem but a trifle, I found his snuff-box with the bean in it come very welcome.
His old regiment, which he delighted to talk about, he had left a model regiment. "There's a deal of good in the soldier-man," he would say to his daughter Nelly. "The poor fellows, they're good boys, they're very good boys." Sir Denis had married, as he was approaching middle age, a very beautiful young girl, who had fallen in love at first with the soldier, and afterwards with the man.
"When it's your birthday," said the Doctor, "it's all right to spend three five centses." Here, then, was David's chance. The jumping-jack was almost his, when his shoes squeaked a warning. Thus suddenly was he reminded that he was a brave little soldier-man. He now saw that such a purchase would be ridiculous.
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