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Updated: June 13, 2025
And the old man stretched his hands over the fire once more, discoloured hands the thumbs of which were curiously bent outwards and splayed, and, seemingly, unable to move in harmony with the fingers. The ex-soldier shouted across the river: "The land here is easy to work, and makes the people lazy. Who would care to live in such a region? Who would care to come to it?
Always must it be a case either of 'Yes? 'Yes, and of folk coming together, or of 'No' 'No, and of folk parting. And invariably the one person in the case grieves the other. Why should that be?" Emitting a cloud of grey smoke, the ex-soldier replied thoughtfully: "Yes, I know I did right; but that right was done only at a great cost." "And always that too is the case," Vasili agreed.
Then a flying squadron from the Good Citizens' League called on the unfair papers and explained that no ex-soldier could possibly do such a thing, and the editors saw the light, and retained their advertising. When Zenith's lone Conscientious Objector came home from prison and was righteously run out of town, the newspapers referred to the perpetrators as an "unidentified mob."
Beaumarchef was an old soldier and a bold man, but he was easily upset, for the lad's insolence made him believe that he was uttering words that had been put in his mouth by some wily adviser; and not knowing how to act, the ex-soldier thought it best to adopt a more conciliating demeanor. "How much do you want?" asked he. "Well, seven francs to start with." "The deuce you do!
Indeed, for a moment or two I stood half-stupefied with terror, for I could not conceive what the creature was. "Whence did you get that splendid pipe?" next asked Vasili as he rolled himself a cigarette. "Surely it is a pipe of old German make?" "You need not fear that I stole it," the ex-soldier responded as he removed it from his lips and regarded it proudly. "It was given me by a woman."
I shall be coming home again in six months, unless the Mahdi makes trouble. Laguerre was three years in the Khedive's service, and with his influence an ex-captain of the French army should have little difficulty in getting a commission in Egypt. Then, after that, I really will come home. But not as an ex-soldier. This time I shall come home on furlough.
I heard Dave Black ask him for a job to-day, and he wants a man too, and he said, 'What an ex-soldier? Not much! The words were out of his mouth before he knew what he'd said. He's a slick one." When Cleary returned to Mr. Jinks' house, he found Sam much worse, and the gravest fears were entertained as to his recovery.
Besides the Judge, there were an ex-lawyer, an ex-soldier of Victoria and a German Graf. I named them the "Ex-Club." Every morning they separated as though forever. Every night they returned and looked at one another in surprise. At election-time both political parties had access to the register, and every lodger was the recipient of two letters.
Why, to your commune, and not to that of Deminsk." Then the ex-soldier said, "Just so." "Now, then, tell me how would you divide the land among the peasants if you had to do it?" said Nekhludoff. "We should divide it up equally, so much for every man," said the oven-builder, quickly raising and lowering his brows. "How else?
The magistrate felt called upon to investigate the case further, and received the following details from the policeman: The mother of the two boys was the widow of an ex-soldier, afterwards policeman, and had had a very hard time since the death of her husband, to provide for her nine children. She lived at No. 2 Pool's Place, Quaker Court, Spitalfields, in the utmost poverty.
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