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He thought of the retreat from Long Island, and of the credit he gained as aide-de-camp to Putnam; he retraced each step in his military career, reflecting on his rise from the command of a regiment to that of a brigade, remembering how his distinction as a brave and able officer reached its culmination in the battle of Monmouth.
I must at the same time inform you, that I am not a little surprised that a person of your rank and station, and quality in the country, should object to give accommodation in your house, and should make a complaint of this officer, that he had asked you for additional accommodation, when it appears by the letter which you enclosed, and which I now return, that when you objected to give him this additional accommodation for which he asked, he acquiesced in your objection, and did not any longer require this accommodation.
“There—the engines have stopped and we are back at Santiago; it is 4.30, and I shall turn in again for a final nap. The captain of the Colon is occupying my room; very nice fellow, about fifty-six, indeed, as are most Spanish naval officers, who, as a Cuban officer said to me, are the flower of the Spanish blood.
The light spars were then sent down to the deck. "You may as well get the top-gallant sails off her, too, Mr. Green," the captain said to the first officer. "It is as well to be prepared for the worst. It is sure to blow pretty hard, when the change comes." The top-gallant sails were got in, and when the courses had been brailed up and secured, the hands were called down.
"How many did you say there were in the party who deserted last night?" continued the colonel. "Seven, sir," replied the officer of the day, "and there is a list of their names. They took no horses with them, but they each secured a carbine and a box of cartridges."
The wire roads were a great help to us, and the officer who first thought out the idea received our daily blessings. I do not know who he was, but I was told the wire road scheme was the outcome of a device suggested by a medical officer at Romani in 1916, when infantry could not march much more than six miles a day through the sand.
'Well, Phyl, I will tell you a true history that I heard from an officer who had served in the Peninsular War the war in Spain, you know. 'Yes, with the French, who killed their king. Lily told me. 'And the Portuguese were helping us.
Somewhere in the city their homes must be discovered. And the talk of the truant officer made Roger feel ramifications here which wound out through the police and the courts to reformatories, distant cells. He thought of that electric chair, and suddenly he felt oppressed by the heavy complexity of it all. And this was part and parcel of his daughter's daily work in school!
"Oh, yes, he is; but I think he was the maddest man in the army soon after you left." "Indeed! Why was he so mad?" "Because he was removed from command of Fort Gaines for letting you pass it in your steamer." "Then he is still in the service?" asked Captain Passford. "Yes, sir; he is a good officer, and he will make his way, if he was guilty of a blunder in letting the Bellevite pass the fort."
The police officer looked around, and noticing the pancake-shaped hat of the convict lifted it up and put it on the wet, drooping head. "Go on," he ordered. The isvostchik looked angrily round, shook his head, and, accompanied by the convoy soldier, drove back to the police station.
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