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It is to be duly notified to the troops that their Whitsuntide leave cancelled for official reasons may be made good, so far as they deserve it, after the gun-practice.... Night-passes may be granted for Whitsun-Day. The news that no leave would be granted for Whitsuntide drew deep curses from many of the recruits.
The young girls had twined it out of weeping-willow leaves and flowers in such a way that the pretty chains of pinks and roses flowed a long way down the youth's shoulders like long maidenhair, leaving only his face free, and thus forming a parting on both sides. Will he win this wreath again? Who can tell? "Well, Martin," said the judge, "so here we have red Whitsun-Day again, eh?"
Henshaw, a Barbados merchant, with his wife, and a very worn battered shabby personage, but unmistakably a gentleman of quality, and wounded in the wars, for he was so lame that the merchant had to help him over the rough paths. It was a wonderful Whitsun-day morning that none of the little party could ever forget.
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