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This conversation passed in the full hearing of McKay, and when Sir Colin stopped the sergeant-major stepped forward, again saluted, and said modestly "I can speak Russian, sir." "You? An English soldier? In the ranks, too? Extraordinary! How on earth but that will keep. We will put this fellow through his facings at once. Ask him his name, where he comes from, and all about him.
Beams, pipes, iron columns, tie-rods, car-trucks, and a tangled mass of iron-work; all that was not consumed of 32 cars, bricks, mortar, ashes, and debris of every description filled the place. The engine-room was hot, but I crawled into it through what was left of the front stairway, which was nearly filled with loose bricks, and the stone facings of the Hyde-Street front.
Holmes pointed with a chuckle to one of these, a row of residential flats, which projected so that they could not fail to catch the eye. "See, Watson!" said he. "'High red house with stone facings. There is the signal station all right. We know the place, and we know the code; so surely our task should be simple. There's a 'to let' card in that window.
Officers in long gray overcoats with facings of blue, green, black, yellow and four shades of red depending on the branches of the service to which they belonged were piling into automobiles and scooting away.
The forward wall of the firing trench was built up with wicker-work facings and the officer drew out a thick switch. "You will speak," he said, "or I shall flay you in strips and then shoot you." Macalister said nothing, and was slashed so heavily across the face that the stick broke in the striker's hands.
"Well," remarked Sir Peter, "you ought to have picked up a little knowledge relative to the spars and rigging of a ship during that time. But did you? That is the question. Come, I'll put you through your facings a bit, if you are not too sleepy. Supposing that it became necessary for you to get the maintop over the masthead, how would you go to work?"
Then I saw it again, and this time the huge proportions of the fish were faintly outlined by the white facings of his fins. The sketch lasted but a twinkling; it was only a flitting shadow upon a darker background, but it gave me the profoundest Ike Walton thrill I ever experienced. I had been a fisher from my earliest boyhood.
I think myself that a soldier is none the worse because he enjoys a glass of good wine, or has a smart jacket and a few Brandenburgs across his chest. For my part I do both, and yet those who know me would tell you that it has not harmed my soldiering. You see this infantry upon the left? 'The men with the yellow facings? 'Precisely. Those are Oudinot's famous grenadiers.
Circus parades are unknown in Austria they are not missed either; after an Austrian officer a street parade would seem a colorless and commonplace thing. In his uniform he runs to striking contrasts canary yellow, with light blue facings; silvers and grays; bright greens with scarlet slashings and so on.
The ovolo about the marble facings of the fireplace bears the conventional bead and reel and egg and dart motives, the latter having a leaf design in alternation with the egg.
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