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Updated: June 12, 2025
Last came Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby de Wing small, brusk and florid acting in command of the 88th Sikh Lancers, and preferring that to any other task this side of heaven or hell; "Nothing to do with politics, my boy, not built that way don't like 'em never understood 'em anyhow. Soldiering's my business." It was well understood it was to be a secret conference.
Dick drew a long deep breath, and Jerry went on. "I'm getting too wicked altogether. Soldiering's pysoning my morals there's no mistake about it. You see how I get thinking all kinds of bad about as mild and pleasant a gentleman as ever was born to be a comfort to people." "Hold your tongue!" said Dick hoarsely.
"And this confounded costume What, in the name of every absurdity, could have ever persuaded me to put it on. What signifies it, though a man should cover himself with glory, if in the end he is to be laughed at? Well, well, it matters not much, now my soldiering's over! And yet I could have wished that the last act of my campaigning had brought with it pleasanter recollections."
'Oh, we'd fight anyway; and after we had knocked the other chap out we'd tell him how sorry we were, then go back and hang the bounders who had brought the thing on. But then, you see, you're riding the wrong horse, because soldiering's my job, and I was always an awful muff when it came to jawing on matters I don't know anything about.
Fieldsend was already captain, and hoped ere the close of the 1707 campaign to get his majority. As for George Fairburn, he was quite content to be a soldier for soldiering's sake, yet would thankfully take promotion if it came his way. Blackett had paid a visit to the west-country home of the Fieldsends, and it was whispered that he had there found a mighty attraction.
"Well, my soldiering's done for." A faint note of regret sounded in his voice. "I had a good bout, so I suppose I oughtn't to complain; but I had hoped however, it's all for the best. And there's no doubt," said Peter, "that my duty lies here now. In a very few months I shall be my own master, and I mean to keep everything going here exactly as it was in my father's time.
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