if we waited for
colonels, or editors either, in this country, until we got such as were qualified, we should get no news, and be altogether without politics, and the militia would soon be in an awful state."
When Lady Durgan, widow of the late Sir John Durgan, arrived in their station, and after a short time had been proposed to by every single man at mess, she put the public sentiment very neatly when she explained that they were all so nice that unless she could marry them all, including the
colonel and some majors already married, she was not going to content herself with one hussar.
"The wicked
Colonel's will has left his Diamond as a birthday present to my cousin Rachel," says Mr.
But it was by no means an easy employment; for in nothing was
Colonel Lloyd more particular than in the management of his horses.
The
colonel quivered; then he smiled, and made a motion of incredulity.
But, in after days, when the frenzy of that hideous epoch had subsided, it was remembered how loudly
Colonel Pyncheon had joined in the general cry, to purge the land from witchcraft; nor did it fail to be whispered, that there was an invidious acrimony in the zeal with which he had sought the condemnation of Matthew Maule.
Their
colonel, Karl Bogdanich Schubert, came up to Denisov's squadron and rode at a footpace not far from Rostov, without taking any notice of him although they were now meeting for the first time since their encounter concerning Telyanin.
'What dost thou?' said the
Colonel, when Kim trotted up.
At the park she laughed at the
colonel, and in the cottage at Marianne.
But the
Colonel yawned sadly among the Duchesses and great ladies of the Court.
The men, listening with bated breath, now turned their curious eyes upon the
colonel. They had a ragamuffin interest in this affair.
He is now in his fifth year, and has brought in turn each of the prizes of the turf to
Colonel Ross, his fortunate owner.