Perhaps it's partly an economic objection, because I used to get savage in India when any of the Tommies' lives were thrown away by careless handling." "It was your soldiers' business to be made use of, wasn't it ?" "Yes; but there's a difference between that and the other thing.

It's the needless waste of life and talent that annoys me.

On the frontier, we spent men freely, so to speak, because we tried to get something in return--a rebel hill fort seized, a raid turned back.

If Benson had killed himself in breaking a horse, or by an accident with a harvesting machine, one couldn't complain; but to see him do so with whisky is another matter." Harding nodded.

Blake was not given to serious conversation; indeed, he was rather casual, as a rule; but Harding was shrewd, and he saw beneath the surface a love of order and a constructive ability.
"I guess you're right; but your speaking of India, reminds me of something I want to mention.