 Major, who was to command us, and who had gone on a month's leave, joined the detachment, he hoped I would " stick very close " to it, especially as the other officers were very young. To ask for leave was therefore impossible, and there was nothing for...  Doubles and Quits - Pagina 148de Laurence William M. Lockhart - 1869 - 294 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
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...confidential daily talk on </te subject, which is the elixir by which a lover lives in absence. " I'll tell you what it is, Donald," he said, after the lugubrious...smack of the sneaking and the pusillanimous, a sort of vote-by-ballot suggestion, about it that deterred me, and I resolved that by the utterances of the... | |
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...a very early return to Aldershot were, however, much damped next day by a letter from the Colouel, saying that he heard the district was in an unsettled...smack of the sneaking and the pusillanimous, a sort of vote-by-ballot suggestion, about it that deterred me, and I resolved that by the utterances of the... | |
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...there was nothing for it but to await the Major's arrival with what patience I might command. Tlie idea of proposing to Lady Rose by letter occurred...smack of the sneaking and the pusillanimous, a sort of vote-by-ballot suggestion, about it that deterred me, and I resolved that by the utterances of the... | |
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