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Then he addressed the hall-porter. "By-the-bye, Charles," he inquired, "if you ask a non-member to dinner, you have to dine in the strangers' room, I suppose?" "Certainly, sir," the man replied. "It is just at the back of the general dining-room." "I suppose an ordinary member couldn't dine in there alone?" "It is not customary, sir." Surgeon-Major Thomson made his way to the telephone booth.
You do not love me, 'tis in vain, Bid me good-bye and go! An expression of hopeless irritation crossed the boy's face, and he tried to shake his head. The Surgeon-Major bent down 'What is it, Bobby? 'Not that waltz, muttered Bobby. 'That's our own our very ownest own. Mummy dear. With this he sank into the stupor that gave place to death early next morning.
As he was crossing the hall, after having exchanged greetings with several friends, he came face to face with Surgeon-Major Thomson. The latter paused. "I am afraid you don't remember me, Sir Alfred," he said, "but I have been hoping for an opportunity of thanking you personally for the six ambulance cars you have endowed. I am Surgeon-Major Thomson, chief inspector of Field Hospitals."
She sat quiet and sombre in the growing darkness and presently Arnold slept. He slept through the bringing of a lamp, the arrival of flowers, subdued knocks of inquirers who would not be stayed by the bulletin the visit of Surgeon-Major Wills, who felt his pulse without wakening him. "Holding out wonderfully," the doctor said. "Don't rouse him for the soup.
She had Surgeon-Major Livingstone's orders, and he on this occasion had his sister's. There was an air of relief, of tension relaxed, between the two women in the drawing-room; it was plain that Alicia had communicated these things to her visitor, in their main import. Hilda was already half-disengaged from the subject, her eye wandered as if in search for the avenue to another.
And we know, at all events, I added, unguardedly, 'that she could never have had an illusion about him. The young man looked up quickly. 'Is that story true? he asked. 'There was a story, but most of us have forgotten it. Who told you? 'The doctor. 'The Surgeon-Major, I said, 'has an accurate memory and a sense of proportion.
After studying at Montpellier and Paris, he served as surgeon-major in the French army in Alsace; then after two years at Vienna he went to Italy and served in the Austrian army. In 1710 he was teaching surgery in Rouen, whence he went to Genoa, and in 1716 he was practising in Paris. He died about 1730.
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.
On November 14th, at seven o'clock in the morning, the mobiles of Souvigny assembled in the great square of the town; their chaplain was the Abbe Constantin, their surgeon-major, Dr. Reynaud. The same idea had come at the same moment to both; the priest was sixty-two, the doctor fifty.
For want of game we brought something else back with us from this expedition up the Gambia and Cazamanze rivers fever. Not a soul escaped it, and in spite of the care of the surgeon-major of the Belle-Poule, who was particularly skilful in treating the malady, we took a long time to get over it. I went back to Goree, where I was to see another sad sight.
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