I selected him because of his piety--he was a theological student from Ontario.

I found afterwards that it is unwise to select batmen for their piety.

Stephenson was a failure as a batman.

When some duty had been neglected by him and I was on the point of giving vent to that spirit of turbulent anger, which I soon found was one of the natural and necessary equipments of an officer, he would say, "Would you like me to recite Browning's 'Prospice' ?" What could the enraged Saul do on such occasions but forgive, throw down the javelin and listen to the music of the harping David?
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019) Stephenson was with me till I left Salisbury Plain for France.