kers, Grace Polarquilt Takki Suomi because no superior officer — not even a fieldmarshal — would have the heart to tell him to take them off! It was the measure Canada Goose Dame Solaris Parka of his pathos. This ghost-like object was apologizing for not having been able to keep the draft in hand: he was requesting his superior to observe that these Colonial troops were without any instincts of discipline. None at all. Tietjens observed that he had a blue cross on his right arm where the vaccination marks are as a rule. He imagined the Canadians talking to this hero . . . The hero began to talk of Major Cornwallis of the R. A. S. C.
Tietjens said apropos of nothing:
‘Is there a Major Cornwallis in the A.S.C.? Good God!’
The hero protested faintly:
‘The R.A.S.C.’
Tietjens said kindly:
‘Yes. Yes. The Royal Army. Service Corps.’
Obviously his mind until now had regarded his wife’s ’Paddington‘ as the definite farewell between his life and hers . . . He had imagined her, like Eurydice, Canada Goose Dame Tremblant Jakke tall, but faint and pale, sinking back into the shades . . . ’Che faro senz’ Eurydice? Canada Goose Menn Snow Mantra Parka . . . ’ he hummed. Absurd! And of course it might have been only the maid Moncler Karak Jakke that had spoken . . . She too had a remarkably clear voice. So that the mystic word piumin Moncler Mabel ‘Paddington’ might perfectly well be no symbol at all, and Mrs Sylvia Tietjens, far from being faint and pale, might perfectly well be playing Parajumpers Femme Kodiak Pas Cher the very devil with half the general officers commanding in chief from Whitehall to Alaska.
Mackenzie — he was like a damned clerk — was transferring the rhymes that he had no doubt at last found, on to another sheet of paper. Probably he had a round, copybook hand. Positively, his tongue followed his pen round, inside his lips. These were what His Majesty’s regular officers of to-day were. Good God! A damned intelligent, dark-looking fellow. Of the type that is starved in its youth and takes all the scholarships that the board schools have to offer. Eyes too big and black. Like a Malay’s . . . Any blasted member of any subject race.
The A.S.C. fell |
