I've met him--and his friends--several times.

They're too fast a string of colts for me.

But isn't it a shame that a man like Berkley should go to the devil--and for no reason at all ?" "Yes," she said.
When Stephen, swinging his crimson fez by the tassel, stood ready to take his leave, she put her arms around his neck and kissed him.
After he departed Colonel Arran came, and sat, as usual, silent, listening.
Ailsa was very animated; she told him about Stephen's enlistment, asked scores of questions about military life, the chances in battle, the proportion of those who went through war unscathed.
And at length Colonel Arran arose to take his departure; and she had not told what was hammering for utterance in every heart beat; she did not know how to tell, what to ask.
Hat in hand Colonel Arran bent over her hot little hand where it lay in his own.
"I have been offered the colonelcy of a volunteer regiment now forming," he said without apparent interest.
"You!" "Cavalry," he explained wearily.
"But--you have not accepted!" He gave her an absent glance.

"Yes, I have accepted.

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