The casualty list, after one of these balls, is something awful.

After all, Jack, all these modern improvements in arms have not superceded the old bow and arrow." She smiled at me with white teeth and lazy eyes.

A handsome woman, Kitty.
"And who is that dangerous flirt you were talking about a moment ago ?" I asked her, interested in spite of myself.
"I lose my mess number if I dare to tell.

Oh, they'll all be here to-night, both Army and civilians.

There's Sadie Galloway of the Eighth, and Toodie Devlin of Kentucky, and the Evans girl from up North, and Mrs.Willie Weiland--" "And Mrs.Matthew Stevenson." "Yes, myself, of course; and then besides, Ellen." "Ellen who ?" "Never mind.