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The command numbered nearly eight hundred, including the subaltern officers. These recruits, or the majority of them at least, were recruits in name only; they had seen service in many a hard campaign of the Rebellion.
I think we were all, except the Colonel and the Senior Subaltern, a little disappointed that the scandal had come to nothing. But that is human nature. There could be no two words about The Worm's acting. It leaned as near to a nasty tragedy as anything this side of a joke can.
Are they really gone?" whispered the subaltern feebly. "Yes, Parker, it's quite true. They've gone. You've helped to save India. You held them off God knows how you did it. Your wound's a nasty one; but you'll get over it." He rose and held out his hands to the others. "Shabash! And the men of the alien race pressed round him and clasped his hands gratefully.
The lieutenant of the Châtelet was not an unkindly man, and muttering something about "hangman's work" he came up and surveyed us by the light of the torches. Then he ordered my hands to be freed, and drawing his subaltern aside gave him some commands in a low tone, and went off.
The sergeant sat down suddenly as the bayonet came out, and immediately crawled to the subaltern. "There'll be another with him, sir, for a cert." The two peered over the bank towards the German lines, while drawn by an irresistible impulse Samuel crept towards the dead man.
She used to be the sprightliest of living creatures, and to judge by her letters, that has not faded. She 's in the market, General. Lord Larrian nodded to everything he heard, concluding with a mock doleful shake of the head. 'My poorest subaltern! he sighed, in the theatrical but cordially melancholy style of green age viewing Cytherea's market.
The last, of course, is an extreme measure, and is only mentioned here as belonging to extreme cases. On the other hand, if Scius is a smart soldier he will gradually gain recognition as such. He may become the head man in his mess of ten; or be made an orderly, to carry the watchword round to the messes; or he may be chosen by the centurion as his subaltern.
For the greater part of the evening he stood near the door with his eye fixed on Miss Priest, apparently rather in sorrow than in anger. His gaze seemed but to stimulate her to more vivacious flirtation; and she "carried on above a bit," as a cynical subaltern remarked, with the gallant major to whom she had been penultimately engaged.
Brooke greeted him and asked, 'Bone ? 'Yes, replied the subaltern laconically, 'shoulder smashed up. We expressed our sympathy. 'Oh, that's all right; good show, wasn't it? The men are awfully pleased; and he rode slowly on up the hill the type of an unyielding race and stoical besides; for wounds, especially shattered bones, grow painful after twelve or fourteen hours.
The men were very silent. At last the captain swore and said: "We are certainly a pack of fools. Derned old deserted house halting a company of Union cavalry, and making us gape like babies!" "Yes, but there's something something " insisted the subaltern in a half stammer. "Well, if there's 'something something' in there, I'll get it out," said the captain.
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