Ray's RecruitJ.B. Lippincott, 1898 - 243 páginas |
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... train . I was paired off with Miss Langdon . Tell Madame I'm awfully sorry , but I can't go . She'll ask you in my place - see if she doesn't . So long . " And in another minute he was breasting the heights to Lausanne , while Smythe ...
... train . I was paired off with Miss Langdon . Tell Madame I'm awfully sorry , but I can't go . She'll ask you in my place - see if she doesn't . So long . " And in another minute he was breasting the heights to Lausanne , while Smythe ...
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... train , and said impetuous things about being his banker and made other offers im- possible to take seriously . The only thing he could take was a drink with all three , until they tumbled off at the conductor's shrill sum- mons , and ...
... train , and said impetuous things about being his banker and made other offers im- possible to take seriously . The only thing he could take was a drink with all three , until they tumbled off at the conductor's shrill sum- mons , and ...
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... trains shambled in , and were unloaded in the twinkling of an eye . The mules went blinking off to water , and the major , never quitting his saddle until his last trooper dismounted , slowly lowered himself to earth and went off in ...
... trains shambled in , and were unloaded in the twinkling of an eye . The mules went blinking off to water , and the major , never quitting his saddle until his last trooper dismounted , slowly lowered himself to earth and went off in ...
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... train , so's to have all the time possible to go and visit his children in Illinois . He'll re - enlist at once . " “ And your man , Ray ? ” " Is Sergeant Merriweather , sir . He says his wife's at Ransom quite sick , and he's anxious ...
... train , so's to have all the time possible to go and visit his children in Illinois . He'll re - enlist at once . " “ And your man , Ray ? ” " Is Sergeant Merriweather , sir . He says his wife's at Ransom quite sick , and he's anxious ...
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... train . " Do you see her head - light yet ? " " She isn't through the cut , " was Long's answer . “ As to taking chances , they've done nothing but take chances in that regiment ever since the war ; yet there isn't a day of our lives we ...
... train . " Do you see her head - light yet ? " " She isn't through the cut , " was Long's answer . “ As to taking chances , they've done nothing but take chances in that regiment ever since the war ; yet there isn't a day of our lives we ...
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Página 111 - I , do solemnly swear, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America and...
Página 109 - It wasn't so much what he said as how he said it: As if he hadn't just given up hope, but that he knew Sandy was dead.
Página 101 - ... other trees that have weathered the storms of a hundred winters. Besides these, come many acres of wild No-man's land, where things have had their own way from time immemorial, with rich meadows and clear streams, hill, valley, and plain. I have been out and about in all weathers, winter and summer, at all hours of the day and not a few of the night, and, being but a poor vicar in the wilderness, have had to make my way on foot. This has given me many chances of observing for myself the varied...
Página 20 - Even Mr. Smythe, with half a million, could not buy. I am going to a higher bidder, — the highest I could find.
Página 103 - Several of the young officers danced divinely, all of them rode well, and none of them thought anything of coming banging at the hall door any hour of the day to ask Mrs.
Página 103 - Parades were fine, guard-mounting "lovely." The little dinners and suppers and dances were just as jolly, friendly, and delightful as could possibly be.
Página 111 - York, by occupation a clerk, do hereby acknowledge to have voluntarily enlisted this...