"The
Colonel's Diamond left to Miss Rachel!" says I.
To describe the wealth of
Colonel Lloyd would be almost equal to describing the riches of Job.
The peasant-woman gazed at Monsieur Fanjat and the
colonel; then, like an animal which recognizes its master, she turned her head slowly to the countess, and continued to watch her, without giving any sign of surprise or intelligence.
"Le
Colonel Silky!" repeated Desiree with a look of admiration, a little mingled with contempt.
Thus he spoke in the vernacular: - "
Colonel Sahib and officers of this regiment.
On the score of delicacy, or any scrupulousness which a finer sensibility might have taught him, the
Colonel, like most of his breed and generation, was impenetrable.
The high-shouldered figure of Zherkov, familiar to the Pavlograds as he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the
colonel. After his dismissal from headquarters Zherkov had not remained in the regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded in attaching himself as an orderly officer to Prince Bagration.
'Then why hast thou left out my name in writing to that Holy One?' The
Colonel smiled a queer smile.
"Infirmity!" said Elinor, "do you call
Colonel Brandon infirm?
Now, our friend the
Colonel had a great aptitude for all games of chance: and exercising himself, as he continually did, with the cards, the dice- box, or the cue, it is natural to suppose that he attained a much greater skill in the use of these articles than men can possess who only occasionally handle them.
The
colonel was seen to straighten his form and put one hand forth in oratorical fashion.
"The fact was, of course, appreciated at King's Pyland, where the
Colonel's training-stable is situated.
He was a
colonel, I was to learn later, and to him I owe the very humane treatment that was accorded me while I remained his prisoner.
Several passengers had got off at Green River, and were walking up and down the platforms; and among these Aouda recognised
Colonel Stamp Proctor, the same who had so grossly insulted Phileas Fogg at the San Francisco meeting.
"I've come from Gritsky's" (that was what they called the
colonel); "they're expecting you."
