be no pleasant command — with men all hammered to pieces. He decided to put the whole thing to Tietjens. Tietjens, Accueil Pas CHer like a meal-sack, was looking at him over the draft of the letter that he had just finished reading. The general said:
‘Well?’
Tietjens said:
‘It’s splendid, sir, to see you putting the matter so strongly. It must be put strongly, Toronto Maple Leafs Drakter or we’re lost.’
The general said:
‘You think that?’
Tietjens said:
‘I’m sure of it, sir . . . But unless you are prepared Real Madrid Barn to throw up your command and take to politics . . . ’
The general exclaimed:
‘You’re a most extraordinary fellow . . . That was exactly what I was thinking about: this very minute.’
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‘That’s pretty well botched, isn’t it?’
Tietjens said without moving a muscle:
‘Why, no, sir. Sylvia is to have Groby and you would naturally make it your headquarters . . . You’ve still got your hunters there . . . ’
The general said:
‘Sylvia is really to have Groby . . . Good God!’
Tietjens said:
‘So it was no great conjuring trick, sir, to see that you might not mind . . . ’
The general said:
‘Upon my soul. I’d as soon give up my chance of heaven . . . no, not heaven, but India, as give up Groby.’
‘You’ve got,’ Tietjens said, ‘an admirable chance of India . . . The point is: which way? If they give you the sixteenth section . . . ’
‘I hate,’ the general said, ‘to think of waiting for poor Puffles’ shoes. I was at Sandhurst with him . . . ’
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