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Whereupon, turning off together, we proceeded about half a mile, sometimes between stone walls, and at other times hedges, till we reached a small hamlet, through which we passed, and presently came to a very pretty cottage, delightfully situated within a garden, surrounded by a hedge of woodbines.
They were line infantry, of the type which gets most of the work and none of the Press notices, a hard-bitten, unregenerate crowd, who cared not a whit whether Belgium bled or not, but loved fighting for its own sake and put their faith in bayonet and butt. And wherever these Antrims went thither went the Padre also, his harmonium and his Woodbines.
Victor dropped into a chair beside the table and lifted the lid of a small golden casket. Helping himself to one of its store of cigarettes, he made Karslake free of the remainder with a gracious hand. The secretary demurred, producing his pocket case. "If you don't mind, sir ..." Victor moved a supercilious eyebrow. "Woodbines again?"
"Must 'ave a smoke nothink to eat or drink." "Well, here you are; light up inside my helmet." He did; this hid the lighted match from any sniper's eye. The other seven men came crawling out of the bushes to light up their "woodbines" and fag-ends. "Well, I'm off," said I, and once more went forward in the direction pointed out by the corporal and his lost squad.
And it wasn’t the engine that we heard, because that came so slowly, but I could hear the boys singing as they came round the curve, “Blighty, Blighty is the place for me.” We served them with tea and coffee, French bread a yard long, and candles and matches and “Woodbines,” and then we got that crowd off—still singing “Blighty.”
I could have exclaimed with that garden-loving poet Bind me, ye woodbines, in your 'twines, Curl me about, ye gadding vines; And oh so close your circles lace, That I may never leave this place; But, lest your fetters prove too weak, Ere I your silken bondage break, Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And, courteous briars, nail me through! I was here as in a lonely temple.
"I shall have to take in washing to eke out a modest living in cigarettes and chocolates. I can't subsist on Mr. Rickett's Woodbines, that's quite certain. I wonder if there's a pawnshop anywhere near." Her voice was low and peculiarly soft; she uttered her words with something of a drawl. Her hands were clasped about her knees, delicate hands that yet looked capable.
I remember, while I lay in a hospital, hardly a whole bone in my body, thanks to the Boche and his flying circus it was that lot sent me crashing, you know the nurses used to tempt me with the finest Turkish; but somehow I couldn't go them; I'd beg for Woodbines." Prince Victor dismissed the subject curtly. "I am waiting to hear about Sofia." "Not much to tell, sir.
She would have been dairy maid, house maid, or anything else, but her father said "No." A pretty little room was given to her, with woodbines and roses peeping in at the window. Here for long hours every day, while the children played in the meadows, she sat and sewed. There, too, Dora, for the first time, learned what Ronald, far away in sunny Italy, failed to teach her how to think and read.
To be spared for a few brief hours the irksome round of routine, to smoke Woodbines the livelong day; to share, in the grateful sunlight, some vantage point with a "Raggie," and join in the full-throated, rapturous roars of excitement that sweep down the mile-long lane of ships abreast the sweating crews.
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