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"It seems pretty rotten to me," said the Colonel, "for a nation to take everything and give nothing, while others fight for it." "They don't know anything about Europe; they don't, as a nation, know what the war is about. As far as that goes we have nothing to swank about in Canada!" said the Doc. "Canada has realized her responsibilities, anyway," put in the Colonel.
"Not by a damn sight." In vain we reasoned, urged and argued. "Don't you want to go back to your own people?" asked Swank weakly. A mocking laugh was the reply. "My own people! Who was I among my own people? Just a bunch of first names no last name at all. William Henry Thomas! That's a hell of a bunch of names. Who am I here? Fatakahala Flower of Darkness I guess that'll be about all.
"It was no swank," said Tam quietly. "Listen, Captain Blackie, sir-r; four guns were bangin' and bangin' at me, and one of them was a good one too good to live. Suppose A' had spotted that one A' could have dropped and bombed him." Blackie was frowning. "I think we'll leave the Archies alone," he said; "you have never shown a disposition to go gunning for Archies before, Tam." Tam shook his head.
But "Nothing to swank about in being late," thought Henry morosely; "only means they've spent too long over their coffee and bread and honey, the gluttons. I could have done the same myself." Indeed, he wished that he had, for he fell again into the hands of the elderly clergyman who had addressed him yesterday, and who was, of course, punctual too.
The tone had that marvelous silver clang of the woodland thrush with yet a deeper, human poignancy, a note of passionate longing and endearment, shy but assertive, wild, but oh! so alluring. We chinned ourselves expectantly on the edge of our floor and waited, panting. "A serenade," whispered Swank, and Whinney shush-ed him savagely.
You'll do as you're told, and behave yourself. You'll work under a very clever lady, Miss Summers, in that room. I'll show you. Come in here...." Sally did not believe that they were always so intent upon their work. She knew too much. To herself she said "Swank!" It was a beautifully light place, all decorated in a pale grey; and there was a long deep bench all round the room.
"Do you realize that you're eatin' an' drinkin' yourselves outer house an' home? We got jest a week's grub in our lockers, if we go on short rations. Beyond that," he waved his arm toward the ocean, as if to say "overboard for ours." "Look here!" cried Swank excitedly, "do you suppose I want to go in for one of these slow starvation stunts, perishing miserably on half a biscuit a day!
"The creature," said Dr. Warner superciliously, "asked me, with characteristic rationality, whether it was my birthday." "And you answered, with characteristic swank," cried Moon, shooting out a long lean finger, as rigid and arresting as the pistol of Smith, "that you didn't keep your birthday." "Something like that," assented the doctor.
The child began by assuming that astounding title: Ts'in Shi Hwangti, the First August Emperor: peace to the ages that were past; let them lie in their tomb; time now should begin again! Childish boyish swank and braggadocio, said the world; but very soon the world found itself mistaken. Hwangti; but no sitting on his throne in meditation, no letting the world be governed by Tao, for him!
"It's a jolly good one, too, so you needn't smile. It's a good thing somebody does have ideas in this place, or you'd all go to sleep! Well, it's this. I really can't stand the swank of those girls in the Gold bedroom. They seem to imagine the school belongs to them.
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