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Might call it 'The Career of a Deputy Hero.'" "I fancy," said March, "that there was a great deal of mixed motive in the men who went into the war as well as in those who kept out of it. We canonized all that died or suffered in it, but some of them must have been self-seeking and low-minded, like men in other vocations." He found himself saying this in Dryfoos's behalf; the old man looked at him gratefully at first, he thought, and then suspiciously. Lindau turned his head toward him and said: "You are righdt, Passil; you are righdt.
I haf zeen on the fieldt of pattle the voarst eggsipitions of human paseness--chelousy, fanity, ecodistic bridte.
I haf zeen men in the face off death itself gofferned by motifes as low as--as pusiness motifes." "Well," said Fulkerson, "it would be a grand thing for 'Every Other Week' if we could get some of those ideas worked up into a series.
It would make a lot of talk." Colonel Woodburn ignored him in saying, "I think, Major Lindau--" "High brifate; prefet gorporal," the old man interrupted, in rejection of the title. Hendricks laughed and said, with a glance of appreciation at Lindau, "Brevet corporal is good." Colonel Woodburn frowned a little, and passed over the joke.
"I think Mr.Lindau is right.
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