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Grammar was still taught at Pine Clearing School in spite of the Hardees and Mackinnons, but Twing had managed to import into the cognate exercises of recitation a wonderful degree of enthusiasm and excellence.
This came from Hennessy, upon whose imagination the contrast between champagne and oysters and the gritty pork and biscuit he had been feeding upon for several days past acted like a shock. "There again!" cried Twing, whose quick eye caught the blaze upon the parapet. "A shell, by the powers!" exclaimed Hennessy.
The 22nd of February being Washington's birthday, I could not get to bed as usual. I was compelled to accept an invitation, obtained by Clayley, to the tent of Major Twing, where they were using Clayley's own words "to have a night of it." After tattoo we set out for the major's marquee, which lay near the centre of the islet, in a coppice of caoutchouc-trees.
Excuse me," he went on hastily, "but I've a lot more coming up, and I'd better make myself square with them OUTSIDE." But Mrs. Martin had apparently developed a certain degree of stiffness since their evening's interview. "It seems to me quite as important, Mr. Twing," she said drily, "that you should first learn some of your own duties, which I came here early to teach you."
Twing after his own definition of it as of a masculine quality ill-suited to a lady's tastes and inclinations; but it was noticeable that while she had at first repelled any criticism of him whatever, she had lately been given to explaining his position to her friends, and had spoken of him with somewhat labored and ostentatious patronage.
Raising myself on the instant, I could see a greenish-looking object just disappearing over the spur of a ridge. It was a vidette, who had fired and run in. "Do you think they are any of our people?" "That 'ar's one of our kump'ny, Cap'n; I seed the green on his cap," said Lincoln. I galloped to the front. Twing was just detaching a small party to reconnoitre.
"Hang!" said Clayley in a quick and emphatic tone. "Captain Hennessy?" "Hang them!" answered the Irishman. "Captain Haller?" "Have you determined, Major Twing?" I asked, intending, if possible, to mitigate this terrible sentence. "We have no time, Captain Haller," replied my superior, interrupting me, "nor opportunity to carry prisoners.
I saw the march across the Simplon the Emperor in front and the brave grenadiers climbing up behind, while the startled eagles screamed and the glaciers thundered in the distance; I saw the Emperor clasping the standard on the bridge of Lodi; I saw the Emperor in his gray cloak at Marengo; I saw the Emperor on horseback at the battle of the Pyramids nothing but smoke and Mamelukes I saw the Emperor at Austerlitz twing! how the bullets whizzed over the smooth ice I saw, I heard the battle of Jena dum, dum, dum I saw, I heard the battle of Eilau, of Wagram no, I could hardly stand it!
Twing, you have properly understood the great I may say, very grave, intellectual, and moral responsibilities of the work you seek to undertake and the necessity of supporting it by EXAMPLE, by practice, by personal influence both in the school and OUT OF IT. Sir, I presume, sir, you feel that you are fully competent to undertake this?" "I reckon HE does!" "WHO does?"
Twing levied on the alcalde for forage for "man and beast". The horses were picketed in the plaza, while the men bivouacked by their fires strong mounted pickets having been thrown out on the roads or tracks that led to the village.
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