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"little chits of missies they have now singing Kathleen Kearney and her like" (U18.375) |
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"on account of father being in the army and my singing the absentminded beggar and wearing a brooch for Lord Roberts when I had the map of it all and Poldy not Irish enough was it him managed it this time I wouldnt put it past him" (U18.376) |
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"like he got me on to sing in the Stabat Mater by going around saying he was putting Lead Kindly Light to music" (U18.380) |
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"he says that little man he showed me without the neck is very intelligent the coming man Griffiths is he well he doesnt look it thats all I can say still it must have been him he knew there was a boycott " (U18.385) |
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"he was a lovely fellow in khaki and just the right height over me Im sure he was brave too he said I was lovely the evening we kissed goodbye at the canal lock my Irish beauty he was pale with excitement about going away or wed be seen from the road he couldnt stand properly and I so hot as I never felt they could have made their peace in the beginning" (U18.389) |
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"or old oom Paul and the rest of the other old Krugers go and fight it out between them instead of dragging on for years killing any finelooking men there were with their fever if he was even decently shot it wouldnt have been so bad" (U18.394) Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (1825 - 1904), better known as Paul Kruger, or fondly as Oom Paul (Afrikaans for 'Uncle Paul'), was a prominent Boer resistance leader against British rule, and president of the Transvaal Republic in South Africa. |
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"I love to see a regiment pass in review the first time I saw the Spanish cavalry at La Roque it was lovely after looking across the bay from Algeciras all the lights of the rock like fireflies" (U18.397) |
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"or those sham battles on the 15 acres the Black Watch with their kilts in time at the march" (U18.400) |
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"past the 10 th hussars the prince of Wales own" (U10.401) |
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"or the lancers O the lancers theyre grand or the Dublins that won Tugela his father made his money over selling the horses for the cavalry" (U18.402) |
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"well he could buy me a nice present up in Belfast after what I gave him" (U18.404) |
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"theyve lovely linen up there" (U18.405) A PC of Donegall Square in Belfast, showing Messrs. Robinson and Cleaver's Royal Irish Linen Warehouse, the largest buiding visible on the left. |
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"or one of those nice kimono things I must buy a mothball like I had before to keep in the drawer with them it would be exciting going round with him shopping buying those things in a new city better leave this ring behind want to keep turning and turning to get it over the knuckle there or they might bell it round the town in their papers or tell the police on me but theyd think were married O let them all go and smother themselves for the fat lot I care" (U18.405) |
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"he has plenty of money and hes not a marrying man so somebody better get it out of him" (U18.411) |
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"if I could find out whether he likes me I looked a bit washy of course when I looked close in the handglass powdering a mirror never gives you the expression " (U18.412) |