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But those in power desired to shield culprits of high rank and to defend the effete organisation of the French War-office. But I am forgetting the prefects and sub-prefects. I mentioned them partly because M. Zola himself might have been one of them.
"For," said Lady Staunton, with the most ruthless disregard to the narrative which she mangled by these interruptions, "if that should be the case, it should cost Sir George but the asking a pair of colours for one of them at the War-Office, since we have always supported Government, and never had occasion to trouble ministers."
Evidently our War-office machinery was in good order, and our soldiers, perhaps the best armed and equipped that ever left our shores, would, we were sure, give a good account of themselves. Among the older and more staid people the inwardness of the situation was more and more realised.
"Ye may be a jail-bird or a missioner, they'se much of a muchity, an' goes on the road lookin' quite simple like, an' the simpler they seems the deeper they is. White 'airs an' feeble legs 'elps 'em along considerable, nowt's better stock-in-trade than tremblin' shins. Or ye might be a War-office neglect, ye looks a bit set that way." "What's a War-office neglect?" asked Helmsley, laughing.
Unfortunately, at this period, a great change took place in my circumstances, which it was impossible for the most prudent or cautious to have foreseen. An intimation from the War-office appeared in all the newspapers, calling on half-pay officers either to sell their commissions or to hold themselves in readiness to join some regiment.
They merely give precision to conduct which has a deeper origin than legislation. Laws, in fact, may be compared to soldiers' uniforms. These, within certain limits, may be varied indefinitely by a war-office; but they all must be such as will adapt themselves to the human body and its movements.
'Leave that to me, returned Mrs Damerel. Next day, when Lucy returned from the post-office, where she had taken a letter for Luke, she found another lying on the table, in Larkin's handwriting. On reading the superscription, she found it was addressed to the War-Office.
The answer which he received was, that "no pay had ever been issued under the direction of the War-office to officers of the navy serving with the army on shore." He now entered upon a new line of service.
She had been with M. de Chenevieres, first Clerk in the War-office, and a constant correspondent of Voltaire, whom she looks upon as a god. She was, by the bye, put into a great rage one day, lately, by a print-seller in the street, who was crying, "Here is Voltaire, the famous Prussian; here you see him, with a great bear-skin cap, to keep him from the cold!
On their way thither, this February afternoon, they talked in a desultory way about some new War-Office reforms, which, as usual, the entire Army believed to be merely intended wilfully and deliberately for its destruction; about a recent gambling scandal in the regiment, or the peculiarities of Hugh's commanding officer.
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