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...at farm, I’ve been there. It’s got a rope walk and a candle factory and an army. Standing army. Infantry and cavalry. Three soldier and a horse. Aleck... ... wind! Turn thy force 77 Mark Twain loose like a tempest, and roll on thy army like a whirlwind, over this mountain of trouble and confusion. Oh frie... ...tittle of my promise to you; what is death to me? what is all this warlike army, if it is not to win a victory? I love the sleep of the lover and the ... ...nd Other Stories 158 privates and twenty commissioned and non commissioned officers; certainly one of the most fiery and dazzling and eloquent sights ... ...lineage call for it once more, and once more it issues from some London or Continental or American press, and runs a new course around the globe, waft... ...t one time or another in their lives, have served for a year or two on the staffs of our multitudinous governors, and through that fatality have been ...

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...hout a question, even from his chief officer. He has the power to turn his officers off duty, and even to break them and make them do duty as sailor... ... the snatches between the frequent squalls upon crossing the equator. Some officers have been so driven to find work for the crew in a ship ready fo... ...s ‘‘not of the stuff that they make ’lors of.’’ He was one of that class of officers who are disliked by their captain and despised by the crew. He u... ...’ for craw fish. For this purpose, we procured a pair of grains, with a long staff like a harpoon, and making torches with tarred rope twisted round a... ...have some wealthy mercantile houses. It is noticeable that European Continental fashions prevail generally in this city,—French cooking, lu... ...ate of Americans, in favor of the retention in office of an officer of our army who was wounded at San Pazqual and whom some wretched caucus was goi... ... it, of joining the steamer or signing a parole of honor not to serve in the army or navy of the United States. Thank God no one accepted the former o...

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...he usual materi- als: travellers on business, and travellers for pleasure; officers from India on leave; merchants in the Greek and Turkey trades; a c... ...ssed so much, and at his time of life should look so far about him for any staff to bear him com- pany upon his downward journey and cheer it, was a j... ...n! if I was to lose the support and recognition of Chivery and his brother officers, I might starve to death here.’ While he spoke, he was opening and... ... to give me his—his own opinion. Cap- tain Martin (highly respected in the army) then unhesitatingly said that it appeared to him that his—hem!—sister... ... of pickled salmon was ill for weeks and that Mr F. and myself went upon a continental tour to Calais where the people fought for us on the pier until... ...king to that post was a Barnacle. No intrepid navigator could plant a flag-staff upon any spot of earth, and take possession of it in the British name... ...hich he supposed to be a failure, he gave them ‘Mr Chivery and his brother officers;’ whom he had beforehand presented with ten pounds each, and who w...

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...he usual materi- als: travellers on business, and travellers for pleasure; officers from India on leave; merchants in the Greek and Turkey trades; a c... ...ssed so much, and at his time of life should look so far about him for any staff to bear him com- pany upon his downward journey and cheer it, was a j... ...n! if I was to lose the support and recognition of Chivery and his brother officers, I might starve to death here.’ While he spoke, he was opening and... ... to give me his—his own opinion. Cap- tain Martin (highly respected in the army) then unhesitatingly said that it appeared to him that his—hem!—sister... ... of pickled salmon was ill for weeks and that Mr F. and myself went upon a continental tour to Calais where the people fought for us on the pier until... ...king to that post was a Barnacle. No intrepid navigator could plant a flag-staff upon any spot of earth, and take possession of it in the British name... ...de on foot, in his broad-brimmed hat and round jacket, carrying a mountain staff or two upon his shoulder, with whom another guide conversed. There wa... ...hing for doing it. Whether it would be more agree- able to Edmund than the army, remained to be seen. Thus the Bosom; accomplished in the art of seemi... ...ntervening country, bristling with custom-houses, garrisoned by an immense army of shabby mendicants in uniform who incessantly repeated the Beggar’s ...

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...e!” and finally pushing them all aside to open the journal of his youthful Continental travels. “Look here—here is all about Greece. Rhamnus, the ruin... ... evening when the important guest was gone to Loamford to see some brother officers stationed there. “Y ou really look so absent sometimes—you seem to... ...treat. Here is an en- graving of the Duke of W ellington surrounded by his staff on the Field of W aterloo; and notwithstanding recent events which ha... ...ale’s wholesome corrections. “Oh, he has not the style of a captain in the army, or that sort of carriage as if everybody was beneath him, or that sho... ...you have your own way in taking to medicine. Y ou might have gone into the army or the Church. Y our money would have held out for that, and there wou...