![]() ![]() “I should like to see those old temples and fakirs and jugglers,” said the old man. He put down the empty glass, and sighing softly, shook it again. “Better where you are,” said the sergeant major, shaking his head. “I’d like to go to India myself,” said the old man, “just to look round a bit, you know.” “He don’t look to have taken much harm,” said Mrs. “When he went away he was a slip of a youth in the warehouse. The sergeant major shook hands, and taking the proffered seat by the fire, watched contentedly while his host got out whisky and tumblers and stood a small copper kettle on the fire.Īt the third glass his eyes got brighter, and he began to talk, the little family circle regarding with eager interest this visitor from distant parts, as he squared his broad shoulders in the chair and spoke of strange scenes and doughty deeds, of wars and plagues and strange peoples. ![]() “Sergeant Major Morris,” he said, introducing him. White said, “Tut, tut!” and coughed gently as her husband entered the room, followed by a tall, burly man, beady of eye and rubicund of visage. The new arrival also condoled with himself, so that Mrs. The old man rose with hospitable haste, and opening the door, was heard condoling with the new arrival. “There he is,” said Herbert White, as the gate banged to loudly and heavy footsteps came toward the door. The words died away on his lips, and he hid a guilty grin in his thin grey beard. White looked up sharply, just in time to intercept a knowing glance between mother and son. “Never mind, dear,” said his wife soothingly “perhaps you’ll win the next one.” I suppose because only two houses on the road are let, they think it doesn’t matter.” I don’t know what people are thinking about. Pathway’s a bog, and the road’s a torrent. White, with sudden and unlooked-for violence “of all the beastly, slushy, out-of-the-way places to live in, this is the worst. “That’s the worst of living so far out,” bawled Mr. ![]()
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