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The idea was quite unexpected, but after some consideration it was decided to give the decoration to the surgeon-major, who had behaved with great devotion during a recent cholera epidemic. The crew was still assembled, the King took up his position aft, but the minister, being perfectly ignorant as to the course the ceremony should take, did not open his lips.
If her ideas about it she kept them carefully in solution could have been precipitated they might have appeared in a formula favourite with her brother, the Surgeon-Major, who often talked of giving nature a chance. She told him finally on the morning of his first drive. They went together and alone, Alicia taking her brother's place in the carriage at a demand for him from the hospital.
If her ideas about it she kept them carefully in solution could have been precipitated, they might have appeared in a formula favourite with her brother the Surgeon-Major, who often talked of giving nature a chance. She told him finally on the morning of his first drive. They went together and alone, Alicia taking her brother's place in the carriage at a demand for him from the hospital.
How can I express what must have been Madame Lichtenstein's horror on reading this production, an incomprehensible collection of all the low expressions that army slang could furnish! The evidence of a third person was necessary to convince her that the signature, M , Surgeon-major of the Imperial French Guard, was not the forgery of some miserable drunkard.
Do ye no' see it?" the Surgeon-Major yelled, pointing to a monstrous milk-white soap-bubble-shaped cloud that slowly rose up in the hot blue sky to the North and hung there, sullenly brooding. "What is it, Major?" shouted Saxham, for behind them the Hospital was full of clamour.
There was the ambulance affair on Majuba, when the Boers came upon an unarmed party bearing the wounded with the red cross flying over them, and after asking who they were and getting a reply, fired a volley into the group, killing Surgeon-Major Cornish. under Commandant Cronjé were guilty of actions contrary to the usages of civilized warfare.
In 1813 the surgeon-major of the regiment, by the merest chance, heard the name of Mirouet, was struck by it, and wrote to Doctor Minoret, to whom he was under obligations. The answer was not long in coming.
"Why, I thought he was inspector of Field Hospitals!" Granet gasped. "A blind!" his uncle groaned. "He is nothing of the sort. He's Kitchener's own man, and this," he added, looking at the letter, "must be his work!" Surgeon-Major Thomson looked up almost eagerly as Ambrose entered his room the next morning. The young man's manner was dejected and there were black lines under his eyes.
'The waiting-woman' it is the surgeon-major who is speaking," the narrator went on "'led me along the gravel walks of a large garden, till at a certain spot she stopped. From the louder sound of our footsteps, I concluded that we were close to the house. "Now silence!" said she in a whisper, "and mind what you are about.
Then he laid his hand upon his nephew's shoulder. "I think I can promise you, Ronnie," he said seriously, "that before many days have passed you shall have all the occupation you want." Surgeon-Major Thomson reeled for a moment and caught at the paling by his side.
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